Couple harassed over comedy club review
Punters were sent abusive texts and had personal details exposed
A comedy club run by stand-up Pete Gionis has been accused of harassment after a…
Marie turns her hand to stand-up... at 88
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Ian Fletcher – and Taskmaster – return
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Gary Delaney starts another mammoth tour
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Eugene Mirman thanks the 'heroic people' who saved him
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Louis CK lands a Netflix special
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Taskmaster renewed for six more series
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Eugene Mirman pulled from burning car
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Somerset House gets a comedy festival
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Romesh rang up a £2million gain
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BBC to release six comedy shorts
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Alexei Sayle writes another memoir
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Tim Key reveals second cancer scare
Tim Key has revealed that he's undergoing immunotherapy after a second cancer…
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Features
A Muslim and a Jew walk onto a Holy Island...
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Seann Walsh tells how I'm A Celebrity revived his career
Four years after he was famously paired with Matt Hancock on I’m A Celebrity,…
Greg Davies: Human shipwreck or middle-aged hero?
Reviewer Tim Harding gives a rundown of the comedy he's been watching in London…
Melbourne International Comedy Festival reviews 2026
All Chortle's reviews from the 2026 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Lara…
Reviews
Piip and Tuut Theatre: Piip and Tuut at Concert
Big in their native Estonia, Piip and Tuut are a couple…
Mish Wittrup: Not As Good As I Remember
Plundering embarrassing teenage diaries for every cringe-inducing…
Elliot Wood: Mrs Lovett’s Famous Meat Pies Grand Reopening Extravaganza
By way of events that needn’t concern us, Nellie…
Live comedy picks
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Glasgow comedy festival sells a record 62,000 tickets
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Will and Noah win London's Sketchfest
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Finalists announced for 2026 Musical Comedy Awards
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Milton Keynes gets a comedy festival
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Ken Dodd's charity donates £1.5m to Liverpool museums
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Live gigs for Vic Reeves creator Jim Moir and wife Nancy
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Punching Up
Rice boils over
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Russell Brand sells his Oxfordshire pub
Russell Brand has sold the Oxfordshire pub he bought…
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Videos
Saturday Night Live UK last night took on the unconscious racial bias apparently shown by players of The Traitors.
In the skit, contestants sat around a round table trying to root out a ‘great big crab man’ as overseen by Celeste Dring’s Claudia Winkleman.
And they ignored George Fouracres in a crab costume to focus suspicions on guest host Riz Ahmed’s character Imran.
It comes after comic Athena Kugblenu called out unconscious bias on reality TV in an article in The Guardian in which she wrote: ‘We’re not very "woke" if we’re still surprised when Black people are kicked out of reality TV shows first.’
SNL UK takes on The Traitors
Just who is the great big crab man?
Operation: A party game with a problem
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