Frank and funny
Skinner in the West End and the rest of the week's best live comedy
29/10/2023 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 5,127 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 29 October 2023
Rhod Gilbert's '18 months of hope and hell'
Comic's cancer diaries, and the rest of the week's broadcast comedy
29/10/2023 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and on demand this week…: Monday October 30 RHOD GILBERT: A PAIN IN THE NECK FOR SU2C: With the help of intimate…
We've lost a Friend. Matthew Perry dead at 54
Tributes paid to troubled star
29/10/2023 … Friends star Matthew Perry has died at the age of 54.
Fri 27 October 2023
© Johan Persson Only Fools And Horses musical to tour
Sitcom spin-off to play 30 cities in 2024-2025
27/10/2023 … Only Fools and Horses The Musical is to embark on a UK tour next year, after more than 1,000 performances in the West End.
Registrations open for 2024 Melbourne comedy festival
...as this year's event claims a box office record
27/10/2023 … Registrations have opened for the 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Go Faster Stripe to release stand-up specials for free
Starting with Joe Wells and Wil Hodgson
27/10/2023 … Independent comedy label Go Faster Stripe is starting to release stand-up specials for free on YouTube.
Thu 26 October 2023
Comedy agent Kitty Laing demoted in antisemitic tweet row
But she will continue to represent her acts
26/10/2023 … Leading comedy agent Kitty Laing is to lose her senior roles after retweeting incendiary posts about the Israel-Hamas conflict.
© BBC Lost episodes of classic Eric Sykes and Terry Scott sitcoms discovered
...but still dozens are missing
26/10/2023 … Two lost episodes of 1960s sitcoms have been rediscovered in private collections.