Sara Pascoe: Sewing Bee dumped me for a younger woman
Comic reveals it wasn't her decision to leave
Sara Pascoe has revealed that she was dumped from The Great British Sewing Bee against…
Laura Smyth pulls her stand-up tour
Laura Smyth has pulled her stand-up tour two days before…
Guz Khan takes up mixed martial arts
Guz Khan is taking up mixed martial arts for a new…
The last comedians on Richard Osman's House Of Games
Comedians Miles Jupp, Cariad Lloyd, Lucy Porter and…
Mark Bonnar and Ashley Jensen to star in new BBC sitcom
Mark Bonnar and Ashley Jensen are to star in a new…
Not a penny left in Leicester Comedy Festival to pay creditors
There is no money in the pot for those owed money by…
BBC pulls blackface sketches from That Mitchell and Webb Look
The BBC has been accused of ‘overkill’…
Iain Stirling joins The Traitors US
Iain Stirling is swapping Love Island for The Traitors – in America. The…
Not Going Out celebrates 20 years
Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week. Sunday September…
Two Doors Down becomes a stage play
The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,422 events Chortle currently…
Mixed reviews for Josh Widdicombe's Strictly debut
Josh Widdicombe got mixed reviews for his first show co-hosting Strictly Come Dancing…
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…
Tour news
Features
Who voices the PG Tips monkey?
Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled –…
'The biggest lie I got away with was telling Ed Gamble I'm not doing The Celebrity Traitors'
With The Celebrity Traitors starting next week, here are interviews with comedians • James…
'It's easier to identify birds if you’re with someone who knows what one is'
Ade Edmondson has reunited with his friend Sam West for a second series of the 5…
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…
Reviews
Live comedy picks
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Dom McGovern and Dan Wye launch podcast
Comedians Dom McGovern and Dan Wye are launching a…
Helen Lederer is launching a new podcast. Recorded…
Comics take part in Portrait Artist Of The Year
Comedians Grace Campbell, Munya Chawawa and Michelle de Swarte, pictured, will…
Friends rally to bring Rumpel home
Friends of street entertainer and globetrotting fool Jolly Goodfellow have raised…
Jake Bhardwaj to host the British Podcast Awards
Jake Bhardwaj is to host this year’s British Podcast Awards, organisers have…
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…
Punching Up
Street is named after Ken Dodd
Blackpool has renamed one of its streets after Ken Dodd. Adelaide Street West is now Sir Ken Dodd Avenue, with the comedian’s widow, Anne, unveiling…
Josh Widdicombe: I landed the Strictly job with a jokey text
Josh Widdicombe has revealed that he got the job presenting…
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…
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
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