Interviews with comedians, comedy reviews, Perfect Playlists and other comedy features, all collected in one place.
Felicity Montagu chooses her Perfect Playlist
25/07/2016 … Felicity Montagu, probably best known as Alan Partridge’s put-upon personal assistant Lynn, stars in the new Radio 4 comedy Guilt Trip this week.
6. Ten shows that try to make sense of it all...
25/07/2016 … A couple of numbers from the programme of Edinburgh Fringe, the home of cutting-edge, relevant art.
5. Ten Fringe stars with very different TV roles
22/07/2016 … You'll never see a stand-up introduced in an American comedy club without the phrase: 'You've seen them on…' And many a Fringe blurb, too, lists TV credits as…
21/07/2016 … Edinburgh's often very focussed on the young and the new.
Comedy mastermind Garry Marshall talks to Jay Richardson
20/07/2016 … With the sad news of the death of Garry Marshall yesterday, at the age of 81, we reprint this interview that Chortle conducted with him in 2014 to coincide with…
3. Sons and daughters of the famous
20/07/2016 … Comedy seems to be producing dynasties, with a new generation of performers coming from famous parents.
2. Ten theatre shows for comedy fans
19/07/2016 … It's hard to credit it sometimes, but there are actually sections of the Edinburgh Fringe programme that aren't comedy.
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