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Anthony Miller defends Robert Webb and the hashtag warriors
12/05/2015 … I have for a while been considering replying Alan Varley's various ramblings on the Correspondents section this website but I have been put off by the fact that…
Alan Varley accuses the comic of hypocrisy
07/05/2015 … Comedian Robert Webb has written an article for the New Statesman magazine headlined 'I wouldn't put Ed Miliband on a T-shirt, but I will vote for him'.
Margo Milne says disabled actors should take disabled parts
21/04/2015 … Chortle today reported that Sky Arts has commissioned four 'knockabout physical comedies' to transmit in the autumn.
Jojo Georgiou wants her hard work to be appreciated
20/04/2015 … As a working comic, I have done thousands of gigs over the last 18-odd years.
Alan Varley suggests a way to end the culture war
09/04/2015 … Yesterday I wrote about the culture of offence surrounding comedy, including 'safe space' policy Cardiff University used to prevent a gig by Dapper Laughs.
Alan Varley is outraged by an outrageous outbreak of outrage
08/04/2015 … Last week Chortle published a Correspondents article by the comedian, MC and promoter Alfie Noakes who had noticed 'a worrying change in the audiences' at his gigs…
Tony Kinsella on the Chortle Student Comedy Award heat winners
06/04/2015 … I've just watched the videos of the 13 heat winners of the annual Chortle Student Comedy Awards.
By Chortle editor Steve Bennett
02/04/2015 … In the topsy-turvy world of Edinburgh Fringonomics, one group of people who seem to be doing all right are the publicists.
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