Interviews with comedians, comedy reviews, Perfect Playlists and other comedy features, all collected in one place.
Our look back at the Edinburgh Fringe of 2008
15/08/2020 … Our journey through Fringes past today takes us to 2008: the year David O’Doherty won the main comedy award, and someone named Sarah Millican blew all away…
© UKTV/Adam Lawrence Paul Whitehouse on the legacy of the Fast Show
14/08/2020 … As the TV channel Gold prepares to air a Fast Show retrospective, entitled Just A Load Of Blooming Catchphrases, co-creator Paul Whitehouse looks back at the…
© uktv As a new retrospective airs, Charlie Higson mulls the show's legacy
14/08/2020 … As the TV channel Gold prepares to air a Fast Show retrospective, entitled Just A Load Of Blooming Catchphrases, co-creator Charlie Higson recalls working with Caroline…
We go back to the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe... and Micky Flanagan's debut show
14/08/2020 … Our Edinburgh Fringe Time Machine stops in 2007 today; the year that Brendon Burns wont he main prize with his audacious So I Suppose THIS Is Offensive Now – with…
Exclusive extract from a new book about the Goon's formative years with the wartime gang shows
13/08/2020 … From the Goons to Pink Panther and much more besides, Peter Sellers was one of the biggest comedy stars of the 1960s and 1970s.
Our look back at the Fringe of 2006
13/08/2020 … 2006 was the year the main Edinburgh awards were styled the if.
Some of Chortle's reviews from the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe
12/08/2020 … 2005 was the year in which Laura Solon achieved the Edinburgh dream - an unknown playing a pub back room with a show she had to put together at the last minute because…
© BBC Test your comedy knowledge (and your memory of 70s sitcom theme tunes) in our weekly trivia quiz
11/08/2020 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
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