Periodical pains
Sean Mason asks why there are no comedy magazines
10/08/2009 … A friend of mine recently asked me why there were no comedy magazines: one about comedy, not one that is comic in nature - in the form of NME (before it became OK…
Mon 10 August 2009
A hiding to nothing
Carl Donnelly on what comics get up to when not on stage
10/08/2009 … For anyone out there who has pondered the question ‘I wonder what comedians are like off-stage, in the comfort of their own home?’, the following story should…
Magic casting
Rhys Darby to play washed-up illusionist
10/08/2009 … Rhys Darby is to play a hapless magician in a one-off comedy to air on Channel 4 later this year, Chortle can reveal.
Sitcom spawns stage musical
10/08/2009 … Danny DeVito’s US sitcom It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia has spawned a stage spin-off.
Dave Thornton: Allow Me To Introduce Myself - Fringe 2009
10/08/2009 … I should let Dave Thornton write his own review.
The Road to Endorphia - Fringe 2009
10/08/2009 … Imagine, if you will, sitting in a small pub, where a friendly local starts chatting to you about the time he ran from John O’Groats to Land’s End.
Warren & Hanbury: All To Bare - Fringe 2009
10/08/2009 … Jennifer Warren and Charlotte Jo Hanbury are appealing performers with a distinctive line in strange, unsettling and quirky comedy, distilled into a show unlike…