University acquires Eric Morecambe's notebooks
Archives now available to researchers
10/03/2025 … York University has acquired a collection of Eric Morecambe’s handwritten joke books.
2025 Archives
Mon 10 March 2025
Glee's Leeds venue to open on March 28
Tom Davis, Dylan Moran and Michelle De Swarte among the line-up
10/03/2025 … The new Leeds branch of The Glee comedy club will open on March 28, it has been announced.
© Channel 4 / Alistair Heap Generation Z is cancelled
No second series for Channel 4's zom-com
10/03/2025 … Channel 4 has dropped its zombie comedy Generation Z after a single series.
Dawn French and Mark Heap begin filming Can You Keep A Secret?
New BBC comedy about a man faking his death
10/03/2025 … Filming has begun in the West Country on the new BBC One sitcom Can You Keep A Secret?, starring Dawn French and Mark Heap The six-part series apparently…
Sun 09 March 2025
Mark Steel: The Leopard In My House
Review of the comedian's book and tour about his cancer treatment
09/03/2025 … From reading The Leopard in my House, Mark Steel’s uncompromising account of his punishing encounter with throat cancer, you might expect him to be a diminished…
Weekend Update on America picking a fight with Canada
With Colin Jost and Michael Che
09/03/2025 … Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che had the usual surfeit of Donald Trump material to draw from last night.
© Elaine Livingstone Stand by for Glasgow's biggest comedy festival
The best of the week's live gigs
09/03/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,657 events Chortle currently has listed.
It's Monty Python, the role-playing game
New Dungeons and Dragons-style product released
09/03/2025 … It’s probably a decent sized Venn diagram overlap – and Monty Python fans who also like role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons are in luck.