Portrait of a comedy genius
Picture of Marty Feldman unveiled in his old drinking haunt
08/07/2024 … This portrait of Marty Feldman is being unveiled today – on what would have been his 90th birthday – in one of his regular haunts.
Mon 08 July 2024
The one concession Shaun Of The Dead made for Americans
Simon Pegg reveals he tweaked one line in the script
08/07/2024 … Shaun Of The Dead is a quintessentially British horror-comedy but Simon Pegg has revealed he and director Edgar Wright made one concession to to American…
Sun 07 July 2024
Comics' brushes with Royal Academy greatness
Harry Hill, Vic Reeves and Joe Lycett in the Summer Exhibition
07/07/2024 … Harry Hill, Vic Reeves and Joe Lycett have all had artworks accepted into the Royal Academy of Arts’ prestigious Summer Exhibition.
© BBC/Various Artists Limited After the catwalk...
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
07/07/2024 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday July 8 SPENT: Stand-up Michelle de Swarte writes and stars in the loosely…
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.
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.