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© David Betteridge Stars get personalised Morph figures
19/02/2024 … Filmmaker Terry Gilliam and actor Robert Lindsay were both presented with awards at Bristol’s 20th annual Slapstick festival of screen comedy last night.
18/02/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 5,840 events Chortle currently has listed.
© Channel 4 Comic takes on the water giants.. and the rest of this week's TV and radio comedy picks
18/02/2024 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Sunday February 18 WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS ROADS: Rhod Gilbert and Angela Barnes travel…
Greeters' Guild comic to play LA festival
17/02/2024 … Troy Hawke has been added to the line-up of the Netflix is a Joke Festival in Los Angeles.
Hometown gig to air later this year
16/02/2024 … Mark Nelson is to film a stand-up special for BBC Scotland.
...from Carry On films to tips on writing stand-up and more
16/02/2024 … A raft of new sessions have been announced for the Chortle Comedy Book Festival at the British Library on March 3.
© BBC Following a 220km route of saints in North Wales
15/02/2024 … Tom Rosenthal and Eshaan Akbar are taking part in the next series of BBC Two’s Pilgrimage series, taking a religious walk in North Wales.
Accuser has ‘faulty memory', his lawyers say
15/02/2024 … Russell Brand has denied sexually assaulting a woman on the set of his movie Arthur in 2010, saying his accuser has a ‘faulty memory’.
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