Mark Simmons wins Joke Of The Fringe
18/08/2024 … Mark Simmons has won this year’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe award.
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All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 18 August 2024
First look at Felicity Ward in The Office
Australian version is the 13th remake - and first with a female boss
18/08/2024 … Here’s the first look at Felicity Ward in the forthcoming Australian remake of The Office – as she becomes the first woman to take the lead role…
'We never made Reginald D Hunter be antisemitic'
Couple in Fringe row named as long-term activitsts, but blast 'nutty' conspiracy theories
18/08/2024 … The couple booed out of Reginald D Hunter’s show after heckling an anti-Israel joke are long-term antisemitism campaigners Mark Lewis and Mandy Blumenthal,…
David Eagle wins a Fringe award
...and Jordan Tweddle takes ADHD comedy title
18/08/2024 … David Eagle has won an award for the best show by a visually impaired performer at the Edinburgh Fringe.
TV picks: Sky airs Tom Davis stand-up special
18/08/2024 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday August 19 WE MIGHT REGRET THIS: Filmmaker and activist Kyla Harris is behind…
Fern Brady starts her tour
The best of the week's live comedy
18/08/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
Sat 17 August 2024
© Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA/CC BY-SA 2.0 Gilbert Gottfried to release his first album, posthumously
US comic never put one out when he was alive for fear of using up material
17/08/2024 … Gilbert Gottfried’s first and last comedy album is to be posthumously released this autumn.
Still Game returns – as a comic book
The continuing adventures of Jack and Victor
17/08/2024 … Still Game’s Jack and Victor are coming back as comic book characters.