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26/03/2023 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,000-plus events Chortle currently has listed.
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Sun 26 March 2023
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The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
26/03/2023 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and on demand this week: Sunday March 26 WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS ROADS: The series continues with Darren Harriot and…
Right-wing comics ‘tend to be sexist and racist’
Eddie Izzard thought that style had gone away...
26/03/2023 … Right-wing comics ‘tend to be sexist and racist’, Eddie Izzard has said.
Dara O Briain: 'All we got was grief over Mock The Week'
But he admits some of the criticism was 'bang on'
26/03/2023 … Dara O Briain has admitted that criticism of early series of Mock The Week for being too combative and not diverse enough was ‘bang on’.
Sat 25 March 2023
ITV pays tribute to Eric Sykes
On what would have been his 100th birthday
25/03/2023 … ITV is to broadcast Eric Sykes's epsiode of This Is Your Life to celebrate the centenary of the comedian and writer's birth.
John Bishop plays tribute to his mum, who has died at 80
The reason he pulled out of panto in Dublin this week
25/03/2023 … John Bishop has revealed that he had to pull out of the Mother Goose panto this week because of the 'heartbreaking' death of his mother, In a touching…
Fri 24 March 2023
James Acaster joins Ghostbusters
24/03/2023 … James Acaster has joined the cast of the new Ghostbusters film.
Was Alfie Brown really cancelled over N-word routine?
Comic apologises for using term in newly unearthed footage
24/03/2023 … Alfie Brown may not have had his gigs cancelled for using a racist slur in his stand-up, Chortle understands.