© DavidEnglund/Pixabay I’ve just failed my ventriloquist exam...
24/02/2023 … Tweets and other posts of the week So it turns out all my Placebo CDs are blank — Sanjeev Kohli (@govindajeggy) February 20, 2023 When I found…
Fri 24 February 2023
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Joe Lycett publishes a book about bins
24/02/2023 … Joe Lycett is to release a limited-edition art book celebrating ‘the beautiful British bin’ .
The comedy world can handle any amount of mental instability...
Alan Davies on the return of As Yet Untitled...
24/02/2023 … Alan Davies returns to Dave next month with As Yet Untitled, in which four comedians are invited to join him around a table and chat, coming up with a title for…
Who's playing the Deer Shed Festival 2023?
Comedy names revealed, including Phil Wang and Bridget Christie
24/02/2023 … North Yorkshire’s Deer Shed Festival has announced its first comedy headliners will be Phil Wang, Bridget Christie, Mawaan Rizwan and Fern Brady.
Weakest Link, The Wheel and Blankety Blank all renewed
With 'three funny titans of Saturday evening TV'
24/02/2023 … Michael McIntyre and Romesh Ranganathan will continue to be mainstays on BBC One’s Saturday night programming, after the broadcaster recommissioned their game…
© Netflix Ricky Gervais reveals his rider
Worthy of 'an international comedy mega-star'
24/02/2023 … Ricky Gervais has been boasting of what luxuries he can demand on his backstage rider.
Thu 23 February 2023
Meet our first Chortle Student Comedy Award semi-finalists of 2023
Jin Hao Lin and Daniel Petrie win Scottish heats
23/02/2023 … The first two semi-finalists in this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award have been named, following our heats in Scotland.
Who's playing the 2023 Teenage Cancer Trust comedy gig
Line-up announced for annual Royal Albert Hall fundraiser
23/02/2023 … The line-up has been announced for this year's Teenage Cancer Trust benefit at the Royal Albert Hall.