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Female comics dominate festival shortlist
19/04/2023 … British comedians Jordan Gray, Leo Reich, Liz Kingsman and Rosie Jones have been nominated for the biggest prize at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Comedian suffers 'complications' from hip surgery at 89
19/04/2023 … Legendary Australian comedian Barry Humphries has been taken to hospital after his health took a turn to the worse.
Amit Shah cast as the Prime Minister
18/04/2023 … Rishi Sunak will be featuring in The Windsors’ Coronation special, Channel 4 have announced.
Comic makes Channel 4 film about the 'horrific ferocity’ of online abuse
18/04/2023 … Rosie Jones is to make an ‘unflinchingly personal’ film about the vile abuse she receives online.
West End adaptation of Radio 4 comedy
17/04/2023 … Craig Ferguson and Robert Lindsay have joined the West End version of the Dickensian Radio 4 comedy Bleak Expectations.
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
16/04/2023 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and on demand this week Sunday April 16 LAST WOMAN ON EARTH WITH SARA PASCOE: The comic returns for the third series of…
The best of the week's live comedy
16/04/2023 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© TJ Garvie Competition for First Nation Australians
16/04/2023 … Queensland’s Shahnee Hunter has won this year’s Deadly Funny competition for Aboriginal comedians.
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