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© ITV/Baby Cow Rhys Edwards on ITVX’s recent sitcom commissions
25/09/2023 … ITV has a tricky relationship with sitcoms, doesn’t it? For every Benidorm or Plebs, there’s far more of the likes of Shane, Sam’s…
2021 Chortle Student Comedy Award winner finally makes it down under
21/09/2023 … Well yes here we are! Two years after winning Chortle’s funniest kid in school competition (and at the other side of a 50+ email thread with organiser Stevie…
Zara Gladman welcomes a space to be funny away from the misogynistic comedy circuit
21/09/2023 … It was the pandemic that prompted me to download TikTok.
20/09/2023 … Over the last ten years, I have been researching the barriers to women’s participation in the UK comedy circuit.
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