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© BBC/Monumental The best comedy on TV and radio this Christmas
24/12/2023 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Sunday December 24 NOT GOING OUT: In the 100th episode Lee (Lee Mack) promises perfect…
The fortnight's best live comedy
24/12/2023 … The best of the next two weeks' live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo According to company accounts filed this week
22/12/2023 … Russell Brand’s fortune has grown by more than £800,000 in a year, Chortle can reveal.
21/12/2023 … A number of comedians have been nominated for next year’s BBC Audio Drama Awards.
© Wycombe Abbey archive and Matt Crocket Limited yellow vinyl to mark International Women's Day
20/12/2023 … A song from West End musical Operation Mincemeat is to be released as a single to mark International Women's Day.
Dancer found fame with Les Dawson
20/12/2023 … Tributes have been paid to Mo Moreland – one of the lead dancers of comedy troupe the Roly Polys – after her death at 87.
Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer to star
20/12/2023 … Comic Tessa Coates has sold an eight-part sitcom to Amazon’s Prime Video.
20/12/2023 … What We Do In The Shadows will end with its upcoming sixth season, it has been revealed.
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