Miranda's awards hat-trick
01/03/2010 … BBC Two’s sitcom Miranda is up for three gongs at this year’s Royal Television Society Programme Awards.
2010 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 01 March 2010
Sun 28 February 2010
The great tangerine debacle
Comic Popper spoofs Fleet Street
28/02/2010 … Comedian Robert Popper has fooled national newspapers into falsely reporting that Gordon Brown became so furious on a factory visit that he hurled a tangerine into…
Bailey joins Fish Called Wanda musical
28/02/2010 … Bill Bailey is to work on the stage musical of A Fish Called Wanda.
Fri 26 February 2010
New Glee club to open
...on the site of Oxford Jongleurs
26/02/2010 … The former Jongleurs club in Oxford city centre is to reopen as a Glee Club, Chortle can reveal.
'Racist' comedy out on DVD
Spike Milligan's Curry And Chips
26/02/2010 … Two of the most racially controversial comedies of the Sixties are to be released on DVD for the first time.
Courtney Love: I made Steve Coogan cool
26/02/2010 … ‘So angry was my tweeting last night that I misplaced an apostrophe and substituted a homonym.
Thu 25 February 2010
Jason Wood's funeral announced
25/02/2010 … The funeral of musical comedian and Strictly Come Dancing contestant Jason Wood is to be held in Bedfordshire, on March 15.
A comedian in Parliament
(Fill in your own joke here...)
25/02/2010 … Stand-up Ivor Dembina has been invited to perform at the Houses of Parliament, in what is thought to be an historic first.