Chortle student Comedy Award 2024: Meet the final finalists
All set for the Edinburgh Fringe showdown!
16/05/2024 … The last finalists in this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award have been named.
2024 Archives
Thu 16 May 2024
Trailer for You’re Cordially Invited
New comedy film with Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon
16/05/2024 … It’s not out until January, but Amazon’s Prime Video has released a trailer for its new Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon comedy movie You’re…
Wed 15 May 2024
© Hugo Glendinning John Cleese's Fawlty Towers: The Play
Review of the show hitting the West End
15/05/2024 … It’s easy to be cynical about the new West End incarnation of Fawlty Towers.
© Hat Trick/BBC CNN to air a US version of Have I Got News For You
Long-running format sold to the States
15/05/2024 … American news network CNN is to make its own version of Have I Got News For You.
© BBC Studios/James Stack Inside No 9: The Trolley Problem
Spoiler-free preview of the next episode
15/05/2024 … After last week’s ensemble of great comedy actors, this episode of Inside No 9 pares everything down to a tight, claustrophobic two-hander between creators…
Forget stupid theories: pyramids are stones on top of other stones
Dara O Briain on his new Channel 5 show about the Egyptian tombs
15/05/2024 … Dara O Briain’s new series Mysteries Of The Pyramids starts on Channel 5 on Monday, looking at how the landmarks were built and what their true function…
Matt Forde becomes charity ambassador at the hospital that saved him.
' I will always be grateful for the talent and compassion of everyone there'
15/05/2024 … Matt Forde has become a charity ambassador at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, after receiving life-saving care there.
Baron Fortitude: Victorian Rapper
15/05/2024 … Let’s get the obvious out of the way first.