Interviews with comedians, comedy reviews, Perfect Playlists and other comedy features, all collected in one place.
© BBC Mawaan Rizwan talks about his new BBC comedy Juice
11/09/2023 … What can you tell us about Juice? Juice is a surreal comedy that follows my character Jamma as he stumbles his way through love.
© BBC 05/09/2023 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Esther Manito's most memorable gigs
05/09/2023 … Esther Manito kicks off a UK tour of her latest show, Hell Hath No Fury, in Southend on Friday, following a run at the Soho Theatre in London last month.
Satirists reveal tensions behind the first show
03/09/2023 … It was the satirical puppet show that had a reputation for taking no prisoners.
All we saw at this year's fesitval
29/08/2023 … All Chortle's comedy reviews from the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe.
29/08/2023 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, this week all about the past four weeks of the Edinburgh Fringe.
American comedian gives us a status report on her first Fringe
25/08/2023 … We asked some Edinburgh Fringe debutants about their expectations of the festival before it kicked off.
George Zacharopoulos' Edinburgh Fringe binge, cringe and whinge…
24/08/2023 … George Zacharopoulos is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing his stand-up show Wonderland at the Pleasance Dome, with his last two shows at 8.
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