Bleak Expectations starts its West End run
30/04/2023 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
2023 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 30 April 2023
Sat 29 April 2023
Third series for Lee Mack's 1% Club
ITV orders 16 episodes and two Christmas specials
29/04/2023 … ITV has ordered a third series of the Lee Mack fronted game show The 1% Club, before the second has finished airing.
Fri 28 April 2023
© BBC Michael McIntyre's fortune grows by £2m
28/04/2023 … Michael McIntyre’s coffers have swelled by more than £2million in a year.
Music festivals announce their 2023 comedy line-ups
The End Of The Road, Standon Calling and 2000Trees
28/04/2023 … A number of music festivals have announced their comedy line-ups in the past 24 hours.
Russell Kane releases his first single
Watch the video as comedian launches a (charity) bid for musical fame
28/04/2023 … Russell Kane has released his first ever single – a 1990s-style swing ballad inspired by his irritation at his wife Lindsey leaving her dirty laundry…
Meet the first 2023 Chortle Student Comedy Award finalists
Five up-and-coming acts chosen
28/04/2023 … The first finalists for this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award have been named following the first semi-final in London last night.
© Channel 4 / Sam Taylor Tom Bennett and Sam Swainsbury join Hullraisers
28/04/2023 … Tom Bennett and Sam Swainsbury have joined the cast of Channel 4 comedy Hullraisers.
Thu 27 April 2023
Comic pulls gig over fears of violent protests
Reuben Kaye had riled the Christian right
27/04/2023 … Australian comedian and cabaret star Reuben Kaye has been forced to pull out of the Sydney Comedy Festival because of threatened protests from offended Christians.