Amstell lands Buzzcocks gig
Simon to be pop quiz's permanent host
22/08/2006 … Simon Amstell is to be the new host of Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Chortle can reveal.
2006 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 22 August 2006
No offence
Bailey urges comics to be cautious
22/08/2006 … Bill Bailey has urged fellow comedians to be more careful about causing offence – and says that Jerry Springer: The Opera overstepped the mark.
Scrubbed out?
Star Braff to quit hospital sitcom
22/08/2006 … The future of American sitcom Scrubs is in doubt after star Zach Braff revealed he is quitting at the end of the current series.
Out of the Park
Animation duo plan live-action movies
22/08/2006 … South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are to make two live action films next year.
Mon 21 August 2006
Funny Brummie
Midlanders have the best accent for jokes
21/08/2006 … The best accent for telling jokes is Brummie, according to new academic research.
Sun 20 August 2006
Gimme Five
Kane to be face of new TV channel
20/08/2006 … Eddie award nominee Russell Kane has landed a deal to be the face of new digital TV channel Five US.
Eddie joins 24
Izzard to play villainous sidekick
20/08/2006 … Eddie Izzard is to join the cast of 24.
Correspondents, coarse
BBC plans foreign reporters' sitcom
20/08/2006 … The BBC is making a sitcom about the bad behaviour of its own foreign correspondents.