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Queer comedy showcase and the best of the week's best live comedy
08/10/2023 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 5,227 events Chortle currently has listed.
2023 Archives
Sun 08 October 2023
© Marc Brenner I quit French & Saunders sketches as they made me feel 'ugly'
Dawn French reveals the truth behind her shock decision
08/10/2023 … Dawn French has revealed that she stopped making comedy sketches with Jennifer Saunders because she became upset that her looks had become the punchline.
Sat 07 October 2023
British lads love weakness... and I reeked of it
In the second extract from his memoirs, James Mullinger learns a hard lesson of stand-up
07/10/2023 … Comedian James Mullinger has written a book – Brit Happens: Or Living The Canadian Dream – about how he moved to St John, New Brunswick, and found success…
Hasan Al-Habib wins Birmingham's Breaking Talent Award
City's comedy festival gets under way
07/10/2023 … Hasan Al-Habib has won the Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award 2023.
Fri 06 October 2023
I've just robbed the local snooker club
06/10/2023 … Posts of the week Hey girl are you the North of England, because I want to promise you the greatest rail you’ve ever had and then immediately disappoint…
Sam Campbell announces first UK tour
Tickets for Taskmaster star's Wobservations on sale now
06/10/2023 … Edinburgh Comedy Award winner and Taskmaster star Sam Campbell is to embark on his first UK tour.
'After the gig the comedians all leant away from me, as if unfunniness was contagious'
James Mullinger recalls an awful early gig in this extract from his memoir
06/10/2023 … Comedian James Mullinger has written a book – Brit Happens: Or Living The Canadian Dream – about how he moved to St John, New Brunswick, and found success…
© BBC Daisy May Cooper: My house is haunted by a topless ghost
It looks like a pair of legs in PE shorts
06/10/2023 … Daisy May Cooper is being haunted by a pair of legs in PE shorts.