John Cleese's latest BBC gripes
Comic, 85, repeats his complaints agains bureaucracy and
02/09/2025 … John Cleese has made one of his regular moans about the BBC, complaining there’s ‘been nothing funny since The Office’.
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Tue 02 September 2025
Taping set for Series 20 of Live At The Apollo
02/09/2025 … The 20th series of Live At The Apollo is to be recorded this month.
The Golden Cobra up for two Welsh Baftas
...and Katy Wix nominated for Big Boys
02/09/2025 … Animated comedy The Golden Cobra has been nominated for two Welsh Bafta awards.
Mon 01 September 2025
© Arina Krasnikova/Pexels stock image Men STILL dominate comedy writing
Almost no progress made since landmark '11%' study
01/09/2025 … Seven years of lobbying broadcasters to employ more female sitcom writers has barely shifted the dial when it comes to equality, Chortle can reveal.
Ed Gamble and Suzi Ruffell join The Traitors: Live
One-off live experience for Comic Relief
01/09/2025 … Ed Gamble and Suzi Ruffell have joined the cast of the one-off Traitors live experience, raising money for Comic Relief.
Sun 31 August 2025
John Robins writes a book about his alcoholism
31/08/2025 … John Robins has written a memoir about his alcoholism, Thirst: Twelve Drinks That Changed My Life will be out in May and ‘tells the story…
The Stand moves, tours start, and Edinburgh winner hits Soho
The best of the week's live comedy
31/08/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,491 events Chortle currently has listed.
© Rob Parfitt / Channel 4 Mitchell and Webb vs Prince Andrew
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
31/08/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday September 1 IAIN STIRLING’S ROAST THE INTERNET: The comic and his guests…