'You'd have to be quite psychotic to get that angry about TV'
07/11/2011 … Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker’s latest series of darkly comic dramas set in various dystopian futures, is coming to Channel 4 soon.
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Mon 07 November 2011
Thu 03 November 2011
© Matt Crossick/PA 'You can abuse disabled people now, it's fine'
The Fast Show cast on their comeback
03/11/2011 … ‘In a time of recession people look back to the good old days,’ muses comic John Thomson.
Wed 19 October 2011
Rising Damp
Revival of the original play, reviewed by Steve Bennett
19/10/2011 … This is certainly a piece of comedy history.
Thu 06 October 2011
'Sprinkled with fairy dust'
Gregor Fisher on 25 years of Rab C Nesbitt
06/10/2011 … Rab C Nesbitt returned to BBC Two for its tenth series last night, as unapologetically grimy – and as popular – as ever.
Mon 12 September 2011
'We would spend an hour writing one joke'
Scott Adsit and Hannibal Buress on 30 Rock
12/09/2011 … Alec Baldwin quitting 30 Rock could spell the end of the award-winning US sitcom.
Tue 06 September 2011
My 13 favourite rules of comedy
06/09/2011 … Last September Yes Prime Minister, the new play that I wrote with my old writing partner Tony Jay, opened at the Gielgud Theatre in London.
Mon 05 September 2011
Stewart Lee: The Jazz Cellar Tape
05/09/2011 … ‘You know those amazing occasions where a significant band’s finally unearthed first demo tape is revealed as better than anything else they ever recorded?’…
Thu 01 September 2011
© C4 'I was hoovering up sick... which you shouldn't do'
C4's new student sitcom Fresh Meat
01/09/2011 … In the book How Not To Write A Sitcom, which Chortle reviewed yesterday, the unequivocal advice was: ‘Don’t write about sitcoms.