James Acaster's car-crash comedy
Comic tried stand-up after compiling a bucket list after a road accident
29/03/2025 … James Acaster has told how he took up comedy as part of a ‘bucket list’ after he was in a serious car smash.
2025 Archives
Sat 29 March 2025
Anna completes the Chortle Student Comedy Award final line-up
Oxford PhD candidate wins the People's Choice place
29/03/2025 … Anna Rae George has been selected as the last finalist in this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award following a public vote.
© Ellis O Brien Jenny Eclair: Jokes, Jokes Jokes
Review of comedian's show inspired by her memoirs
29/03/2025 … Just before the interval a flash of insecurity crosses Jenny Eclair’s mind.
Fri 28 March 2025
The Iceman: The Final Block
Alternative comedy pioneer coaxed out of retirement
28/03/2025 … The Iceman is surely the act most widely cited to illustrated the weird and wonderful state of the fertile post-punk alternative cabaret circuit which birthed the…
Sky announces new series of comedy shorts
With Kae Kurd, Andrew Mensah, Kyrah Gray annd Stevo The Madman.
28/03/2025 … Sky has announced four new series of digital shorts featuring comedians Kae Kurd, Andrew Mensah and Kyrah Gray, plus internet personality Stevo The Madman.
Am I Being Unreasonable? Series 2 bloopers
28/03/2025 … The BBC has released a reel of bloopers from the second series of Am I Being Unreasonable? With a title borrowed from the Mumsnet message board,…
In the name of the Auntie, and of the homie chavvie, and of the Fantabulosa Fairy...
Kenneth Williams Bible readings to air for the first time
28/03/2025 … Previously unheard tapes of Kenneth Williams reading stories from the Bible are to air on Radio 4.
Second series for Michael Spicer's No Room
Comedy returns to Radio 4 next month
28/03/2025 … Michael Spicer has made a second series of his Radio 4 sketch show No Room.