The Chortle Awards in video
28/03/2014 … Best newcomer Breakthrough act Best compere Club comic Best show Best tour DVD Award Music and variety award Character, sketch or improv Internet Award Offstage…
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Fri 28 March 2014
Thu 27 March 2014
Chortle Awards 2014 in pictures
With ALCATEL ONETOUCH and Universal Pictures (UK)
27/03/2014 … Pictures from last night's shindig, taken by Twisty.
Fri 14 March 2014
Edna, Sandra and drag queens were why I got into comedy
Pam Ann shares her favourite in-flight comedy clips
14/03/2014 … Growing up in Australia I was immersed in camp and drag so it makes sense that I was drawn to the gay community and never missed a Dame Edna performance.
Thu 13 March 2014
Premier-grade guests
Ten heads of state who went on comedy shows
13/03/2014 … Barack Obama's deliberately awkward encounter with Zach Galifianakis on his Between Two Ferns web series has attracted more than 11 million views in 24 hours, as…
Wed 12 March 2014
'It was very polite of Graham Linehan to humour us...'
Michael Curle meets the team behind BBC4's The Walshes
12/03/2014 … It is every comic performer’s dream: a chance meeting with a comedy hero leads to a TV break and your own sitcom – that dream became reality for Irish comedy…
Fri 07 March 2014
'One of the nice things about the BBC is they don't really promote the series'
Stewart Lee talks to Jay Richardson about Comedy Vehicle
07/03/2014 … For comics, he is perceived as the ultimate – if inflated – authority on artistic integrity, ‘The Grand Poobah of Comedy’, as Al Murray has dubbed him.
Wed 05 March 2014
© BBC Born on BBC Three
The best of the channel's comedy commissions
05/03/2014 … The BBC’s youth channel has faced brickbats for its tabloid-titled documentaries and some of its less salubrious, flashy output.
Tue 04 March 2014
Inside Broadcasting House
Meet the cast of new comedy W1A
04/03/2014 … W1A, the follow up to Twenty Twelve that's set in the upper echelons of the BBC, starts on BBC Two soon.