BBC pulls blackface sketches from That Mitchell and Webb Look
Overkill, or a problem to be addressed?
The BBC has been accused of ‘overkill’ after cutting sketches referencing…
Not a penny left in Leicester Comedy Festival to pay creditors
There is no money in the pot for those owed money by…
Street is named after Ken Dodd
Blackpool has renamed one of its streets after Ken…
Iain Stirling joins The Traitors US
Iain Stirling is swapping Love Island for The Traitors…
Not Going Out celebrates 20 years
Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this…
Two Doors Down becomes a stage play
The best of the week's live comedy, picked from…
Mixed reviews for Josh Widdicombe's Strictly debut
Josh Widdicombe got mixed reviews for his first show…
What happens in The Inbetweeners 3?
Details of the third Inbetweeners movie have been revealed as photos from the…
Stephanie Cole – whose comedy roles included Waiting For God, Cabin Pressure…
Publisher drops David Walliams back catalogue
HarperCollins will no longer print any of David Walliams’s back catalogue of…
Another chapter in the Goodnight Sweetheart saga
Gary Sparrow, the time-travelling bigamist at the centre of BBC sitcom Goodnight…
Radio 4 isn't going without Alan Davies
Alan Davies’ Radio 4 series Life Without is to return for a second series. Ten…
Joel Dommett writes a script about his catfishing scam
Joel Dommett is writing a TV script based on the time he was blackmailed in a catfishing…
Tour news
Features
We're proud to be from the Valleys, and this is a loving tribute
Surreal animated comedy The Golden Cobra returns to BBC Three and iPlayer on…
'A really polished comedian will get reamed in the UK'
Rich Hall started out as a street performer before finding stand-up and winning an…
What was Joan Rivers' real surname?
Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled…
'I'm treating this more as a gig than a quiz show'
John Bishop hosts the new BBC quiz show Wisdom Of The Crowd this weekend. Here he…
Reviews
Live comedy picks
Gig of the day
Piff & Pop’s Magic Shoppe
Glasgow Pavilion Theatre
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Olga Koch: Fat Tom Cruise
Oxford Old Fire Station
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Scott Bennett: Stuff
Bridport Electric Palace
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Harriet Kemsley: Floozy
Leicester Square Theatre
Thursday 1st Oct from 19:00Book now
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Joe Thomas: Talking All Things Inbetweeners
Torquay Arena Torquay
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Joe Wells – Daddy Autism
Bristol Hen and Chicken
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Other news
Friends rally to bring Rumpel home
Friends of street entertainer and globetrotting fool…
Jake Bhardwaj to host the British Podcast Awards
Jake Bhardwaj is to host this year’s British…
John Thomson is to play Ebenezer Scrooge in a production of A Christmas Carol at…
Closed pub bought back to life as a comedy venue
A disused North London pub is to reopen once a month as a pop-up comedy and cabaret…
BBC seeks the next great Scouse sitcom
Applications are now open for a BBC-backed project to develop comedy scripts coming…
Plymouth to get its own comedy festival
Josh Widdicombe is backing the inaugural Plymouth Comedy Festival as ambassador. More…
Comedians host new scandal podcast
Comedians Milo Edwards and Sophie Garrad are hosting a new podcast about British…
Larry Dean launches podcast with husband Mikey Crump
Saturday Night Live UK star Larry Dean has launched a podcast with his husband, Mikey…
Punching Up
Josh Widdicombe: I landed the Strictly job with a jokey text
Josh Widdicombe has revealed that he got the job presenting Strictly Come Dancing by sending a jokey text. The comic had got to know the show’s executive…
Ruby Wax: I got banned from Disneyland for being high
Ruby Wax has told how she was banned from Disneyland…
'I died so badly I saw a ghost'
Many comedians have died on stage. Few go so badly…
'I’m Noel, I’m going to be a famous comedian'
Noel Fielding was so convinced he’d have a successful…
Videos
Last week, a new sitcom pilot claimed to be the world's first to be produced by AI and written by a human.
The results were as terrible as you might expect.
Nonetheless, Chortle as decided to see if artificial intelligence might be able to recreate some classic comedy scenes.
We describe them and asked the Wan AI video generator to recreate them. These are the results:
AI ruins comedy
Classic scenes recreated
Chris Fleming: I lost to the Muppets
But is he bitter about the Emmy result?
From SNL UK
Weekend Update: Ed Sheeran, Robert Kraft and Diana's Swan Song
Ania Magliano and Paddy Young on SNL UK