Arthur Smith's back hosting the 2024 Fast Fringe
The best of the week's live comedy
07/07/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
2024 Archives
Sun 07 July 2024
Is the crowd-work craze killing scripted jokes?
Maybe.. but the best comedy defies TikTokification, says Dylan Dodds
07/07/2024 … As a comic preparing to head to the Edinburgh Fringe, I enjoyed Brian Logan's receny Guardian article on the increasing popularity of crowdwork videos online.
Sat 06 July 2024
© Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven
06/07/2024 … Tweets of the week I’m going to put a twitter in a box today (I refuse to call it X).
Miranda Hart opens up about her 'dark' times
...but comic says she now feels recovered from her 'tests and trials'
06/07/2024 … Miranda Hart says she’s been through some dark times over a ‘very unexpected’ decade of her life.
Fri 05 July 2024
Stewart Lee is 'very clever'
Clips from his Basic Lee special, coming soon to Sky
05/07/2024 … Here's Stewart Lee mocking the sort of people who like – or say they like - his work, while deploying his trademark repetition.
© Instagram/tony_knight_comedy Comedian Tony Knight dies at music festival
'Freak accident' as branch falls from tree
05/07/2024 … Tony Knight – an English comedian who made Australia his home – has been killed by a falling tree branch while at a festival in France.
© David Woolfall/CC BY-SA 3.0 Comedy club owner Tommy Sheppard loses his seat
The Stand's director is no longer an SNP MP
05/07/2024 … The founder of The Stand comedy clubs has lost his seat in Westminster.
© BBC Steve Pemberton and Ben Willbond join The Cleaner
Guest stars announced for series 3 of Greg Davies' comedy
05/07/2024 … Inside No 9’s Steve Pemberton and Ghosts star Ben Willbond are among the guest stars in series 3 of Greg Davies comedy The Cleaner.