Barry Cryer dies at 86
27/01/2022 … Tributes have been flooding in after Barry Cryer, the clubbable king of the comedy anecdote and master of the pub joke, died at the age of 86.
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Thu 27 January 2022
Tue 25 January 2022
Test your Scottish comedy knowledge
With a Burns Night edition of our weekly trivia quiz
25/01/2022 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Fri 21 January 2022
© Tiger Aspect/BBC 'Do not binge this show. It will do your head in'
Herbert Clunkerdunk: Exclusive video plus cast interviews
21/01/2022 … Spencer Jones’s comedy The Mind Of Herbert Clunkerdunk returns to BBC Two and iPlayer next week with a second series of five 15-minute episodes.
Tue 18 January 2022
In which film did Harold Lloyd hang from a clock face?
18/01/2022 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Mon 17 January 2022
Win tickets to see Magic Goes Wrong
17/01/2022 … Magic Goes Wrong – the latest theatre show from the team behind stage hit The Play That Goes Wrong and BBC series The Goes Wrong Show – 'begins…
Wed 12 January 2022
'Stand-up helped me deal with my strokes'
Markus Birdman talks about his health issues
12/01/2022 … Stand-up Markus Birdman has spoken about how comedy helped him deal with the effects of suffering two strokes.
Tue 11 January 2022
© Harald Krichel/CC BY-SA 3.0 Which comedian sang backing vocals for Ed Sheeran?
11/01/2022 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Thu 06 January 2022
Comedy's ones to watch for 2022
Promoters pick their most-tipped acts
06/01/2022 … Here is Chortle’s annual list of comedians tipped to do big things in the next 12 months - as nominated by those in the know.