Brendon Burns webchat
11/07/2004 … Brendon Burns will be popping in to Chortle for a webchat on Tuesday July 13.
Latest News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 11 July 2004
Mine's a large one!
Al Murray to play his biggest gig yet
11/07/2004 … Pub Landlord Al Murray has announced a date at London’s Hammersmith Apollo – his biggest gig yet.
Sat 10 July 2004
Jack on the box
Dee to star in fairground drama
10/07/2004 … Jack Dee is to star in a new ITV1 drama from Men Behaving Badly creator Simon Nye.
It's criminal...
10/07/2004 … The much-derided Police Academy series is set for a resurrection, with plans under way for an eight movie.
Fri 09 July 2004
Piercing comedy
09/07/2004 … Double act Oram and Meeten are to star in a new Channel 4 comedy – set in a tattoo parlour.
Post minstrel tension
'Black' comic turns out to be white
09/07/2004 … Theatre officials who booked a black comic received a shock when he turned out to be a white comic ‘blacked up’.
Thu 08 July 2004
Arise Sir Niles
Frasier star heads Python musical
08/07/2004 … Frasier star David Hyde Pierce is to head the cast of the new Monty Python Broadway show.
Wed 07 July 2004
Eric Douglas dies
07/07/2004 … The comedian brother of Michael Douglas was found dead at his New York home yesterday.