Quick chat about benefit cuts
20/03/2025 … Michael Spicer exposes the brutal consequences of the government removing PIP (Personal Independence Payment) from disabled people in his latest video.
2025 Archives
Thu 20 March 2025
© Peter Rogan Film offers a rare peak at Ken Dodd's private life
...including extracts from the notebooks he wanted to be destroyed
20/03/2025 … Extracts from notebooks belonging to Sir Ken Dodd are to be broadcast for the first time in a new documentary about the comedian.
© Nina Prommer/ZUMA Press Wire Marty Callner, pioneer of the comedy special, dies at 78
He directed the very first HBO stand-up show
20/03/2025 … Marty Callner, who directed numerous American comedy specials, has died at 78.
© BBC/CTVC Helen Lederer and Daliso Chaponda undertake BBC's Pilgrimage
Comedians take on 300km trek through the Alps
20/03/2025 … Daliso Chaponda and Helen Lederer are among the celebrities taking part in this years’ BBC Pilgrimage.
Wed 19 March 2025
© Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo HBO to air Brett Goldstein's first stand-up special
The Second Best Night Of Your Life coming in April
19/03/2025 … Brett Goldstein has recorded his first special, which will air on America’s HBO next month.
© Matt Waters Dulcé Sloan at Soho Theatre
Review of the visiting American comedian
19/03/2025 … Dulce Sloan may have come to prominence through The Daily Show, where she ended a seven-year stint early this year, but in her stand-up she eschews America’s…
© Expectation TV/Channel4 'It's a compliment to be called a witch... as I told a certain misogynist bus driver'
Bridget Christie on the return of The Change
19/03/2025 … Bridget Christie’s critically acclaimed comedy series, The Change – returns to Channel 4 on Thursday March 27.
Chortle Student Comedy Award 2025: The final semi-finalists
19/03/2025 … Below are extracts from all the sets from the York and Bristol semi-finals of the Chortle Student Comedy Award.