Iain Stirling: I'll do this gig topless if I sell half the tickets...
Comic's rash promise about his Oxford date
12/02/2025 … Comedian Iain Stirling has joked that he will plat a tour date topless if he sells more than half the seats.
2025 Archives
Wed 12 February 2025
60,000 complain over Josh Howie's 'homophobic slur'
But comic insists GB News comment was a joke about paedophilia in churches
12/02/2025 … Comedian Josh Howie has attracted tens of thousands of complaints after making a joke on GB News that appeared to suggest the LGBT community included paedophiles.
Enter the 2025 Chortle Student Comedy Award
12/02/2025 … Entries have opened today for the 2025 Chortle Student Comedy Award.
The moment Peter Kay throws out hecklers
Drama at Manchester's AO Arena
12/02/2025 … This video – shot by a member of Peter Kay's audience at Manchester’s AO Arena – has been removed at the request of the comedian's…
© BBC Steve Coogan to star in The Good Life
An eco-drama, not a remake of the 1970s sitcom...
12/02/2025 … Steve Coogan is working on a film about greenwashing.
© Netflix Dave Chappelle honoured for being a 'voice of social consciousness'
Comic to receive award from NAACP civil rights group
12/02/2025 … It might come as news to the trans people upset by Dave Chappelle’s material about them – but the comedian is set to win a major award for being…
Sydney May takes Komedia's new act crown
Wes Defoe and Aiden Lonergan are runners-up
12/02/2025 … Sydney May was crowned winner of Komedia’s New Comedy Award in Brighton last night.
Tue 11 February 2025
In which film did Richard Ayoade play a killer droid?
11/02/2025 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.