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25/06/2023 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
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All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 25 June 2023
Cleese: I'm axing Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
Comic ditches song from Life Of Brian stage showw
25/06/2023 … John Cleese has confirmed that he plans to ditch Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life from a new stage adaptation of Life Of Brian.
Sat 24 June 2023
Nick Frost writes a food-based memoir
How cooking helped him cope with his mum's alcoholism
24/06/2023 … Nick Frost has written a book billed as ‘a mixture of memoir and cooking’.
Thu 22 June 2023
Entries open for British Comedian Of The Year 2023
Biggest prize in comedy with £10,001 up for grabs
22/06/2023 … Applications have opened for the 2023 British Comedian Of The Year competition.
BBC orders comedy-drama from disability activist Kyla Harris
We Might Regret This also stars Darren Boyd and Sally Phillips
22/06/2023 … The BBC has ordered a comedy-drama about a Canadian quadriplegic moving to London.
© BBC/Hat Trick Clive Myrie dropped from BBC News after hosting Have I Got News For You
Corporation chief feared impartiality backlash
22/06/2023 … The BBC reportedly banned Clive Myrie from presenting News At Ten on Friday because he hosted Have I Got News For You an hour beforehand.
A real book about a fake author
Alice Fraser writes a guide to her Bugle creation, D'Ancey LaGuarde
22/06/2023 … Listeners to hit satirical podcast The Bugle have long been teased by the latest works from the bestselling – and entirely fictional – romance novelist…
Mae Martin named rising comedy star of the year
Stand-up honoured by Montreal's Just For Laughs festival
22/06/2023 … Mae Martin is to be named rising comedy star of the year at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival.