Interviews with comedians, comedy reviews, Perfect Playlists and other comedy features, all collected in one place.
Idris Elba and Bill Bailey on their new 1980s-set Sky comedy In The Long Run
12/03/2018 … Idris Elba, creator and star How did In the Long Run come about? It came from a 20-minute short that I did for Sky called King For A Term.
More than six decades of laughter,,,
12/03/2018 … So it turns out that if you bang two halves of a horse together, it doesn’t make the sound of a coconut.
Chortle editor Steve Bennett on Ken Dodd's act
12/03/2018 … I saw Ken Dodd on stage in 2004 – 50 years after he made his professional debut.
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06/03/2018 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly trivia quiz - compiled, as always by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Carl Barron picks his Unforgettable Five gigs
02/03/2018 … On the eve of a rare London date tomorrow, Australian comedian Carl Barron shares his most memorable gigs: Worst gig I think the time a guy came out…
'Any fool can write but only a writer can cut’
01/03/2018 … Douglas Adams wrote an ‘elaborate and elegant’ opening for his third Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy book – which he subsequently ditched.
Our bid to widen the range of critical voices at Edinburgh
01/03/2018 … Chortle today launches a search for a new comedy reviewer for the Edinburgh Fringe.
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