Comics rally for victims of Christchurch terror attack
Major benefit to 'laugh in the face of hate'
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We see tour dates in Clinton Baptiste's future
Clinton Baptiste, the dubious psychic from Peter Kay’s…
Comics talk about sex for Channel 4
Comics Phil Wang and London Hughes are to talk about…
Croatia gets a new comedy festival
Croatia is getting a new international comedy festival,…
Des Bishop cancels shows after his mother dies
Des Bishop has pulled his gigs this weekend after his…
Comic facing jail for abusing women
Scottish comedian JD Brown is facing jail after he…
Eddie Izzard to play the Edinburgh Fringe
Eddie Izzard is to perform Great Expectations at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. The…
Let's erect a statue to Del Boy
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David Dimbleby to host Have I Got News For You
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Ricky Gervais plans After Life series 2
Ricky Gervais has confirmed he is working on a second season of his acclaimed Netflix…
Out on DVD: The 'lost classic' of Peter Sellers
The first film that Peter Sellers directed is to be released on DVD for the first…
A third Bill & Ted film is to go into production, to be released next year. Stars…
Features
Win tickets to an exclusive Chortle screening of Being Frank
Being Frank, the new documentary film about Chris Sievey and his alter ego Frank…
Erika wins Chortle's final student heat
Erika Ehler – a Canadian student of comedy writing and performance at…
What was Captain Mainwaring's first name?
Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly trivia quiz, now in multiple choice format…
Who won the 2019 Chortle Awards
James Acaster and Kiri Pritchard-McLean were both double winners at the Chortle Awards…
Comedy with Resonance
For more than 20 years, London-based community radio station Resonance FM has been…
What we know about Chris Morris's film The Day Shall Come
Chris Morris’s second film, The Day Shall Come, received its world premiere…
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Who are the guests on The Guilty Feminist tour?
The guests have been announced for the live tour of…
Omid Djalili plays Camp Bestival
Omid Djalili, his regular support act Boothby Graffoe…
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James Corden to host the Tonys again
James Corden has been announced as host of this year's Tony Awards for Broadway…
Melbourne festival helps comics to get home safely
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival has launched a new scheme to help performers…
New comedy about indigenous Australian detectives
A new Australian comedy series is to based around the exploits of two detectives…
Katie Pritchard wins new act prize
Katie Pritchard has been crowned winner of a new act competition run by London venue…
New comedy festival for Richmond Upon Thames
A new comedy festival is to be staged in the Old Deer Park in Richmond Upon Thames. Nish…
Punching Up
You want the tooth?
Jimmy Carr has admitted that he's had some work done on his teeth – saying he wanted his mouth to be so bright it looked like 'someone’s opened…
I've just found a drawer full of lightbulbs...
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Seann Walsh goes through another bad spell
You might have thought everyone knew his name after…
Where does Donald Trump get his economic figures from? John Cleese
John Cleese has been working as an intern at the White…
Videos
It might be the ultimate displacement activity when he should have been wiring his new Edinburgh show – but Alistair Beckett King has made an elaborate animated theme tune.
With a song performed by Laurence Owen, the 90-second video is in the style of 1990s kids' TV programmes.
The Interdimensional ABK is on at Pleasance Dome during the festival,
The Interdimensional ABK
Comic's elaborate Edinburgh show title sequence
Aussie sketch team get animated
Watch the Chortle Awards 2019 announcements
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Other links
Irish Independent: Founder Richard Cook on 25 years of Kilkenny Cat Laughs
Paste Magazine: Why Catastrophe is one of the decade's best TV series
The Guardian: Romesh Ranganathan - I'm proud to work with Comic Relief despite 'white saviour' row
The Daily Beast: Interview with Richard Pryor's widow Jennifer Lee