Guz Khan hits the road
The fortnight's best live comedy
24/12/2023 … The best of the next two weeks' live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
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All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 24 December 2023
Fri 22 December 2023
© Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo Russell Brand’s fortune grows by £800,000
According to company accounts filed this week
22/12/2023 … Russell Brand’s fortune has grown by more than £800,000 in a year, Chortle can reveal.
Thu 21 December 2023
Comedians up for BBC Audio Drama Awards 2024
21/12/2023 … A number of comedians have been nominated for next year’s BBC Audio Drama Awards.
Wed 20 December 2023
© Wycombe Abbey archive and Matt Crocket Operation Mincemeat song Dear Bill to be released a single
Limited yellow vinyl to mark International Women's Day
20/12/2023 … A song from West End musical Operation Mincemeat is to be released as a single to mark International Women's Day.
Tributes as Roly Poly Mo dies at 87
Dancer found fame with Les Dawson
20/12/2023 … Tributes have been paid to Mo Moreland – one of the lead dancers of comedy troupe the Roly Polys – after her death at 87.
Prime Video snaps up Tessa Coates' hitwoman comedy
Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer to star
20/12/2023 … Comic Tessa Coates has sold an eight-part sitcom to Amazon’s Prime Video.
What We Do In The Shadows to end
20/12/2023 … What We Do In The Shadows will end with its upcoming sixth season, it has been revealed.
© Channel 4 Adam Hills gives his gold foot away
20/12/2023 … Adam Hills has donated a gold prosthetic foot to a museum about the Paralympic movement.