By Royal disappointment! Frank Skinner slated by the Wessexes
Usually bland backstage Royal Variety chat becomes pointed
05/12/2022 … Backstage at the Royal Variety Performance is usually the place to exchange bland, polite pleasantries.
Mon 05 December 2022
Harry Hill’s Tony Blair musical heads to the West End
Month-long run in the Leicester Square Theatre
05/12/2022 … Harry Hill’s unofficial Tony Blair musical is heading to the West End next year.
A burglar once caught Russell Howard enjoying 'mucky business'
Comic's mortifying teenage moment
05/12/2022 … Russell Howard has revealed that a burglar once caught him enjoying some ‘mucky business'.
© PublicDomainPictures/Pixabay The best topical Christmas cracker jokes of 2022 are...
TV channel Gold reveals its annual top ten
05/12/2022 … Puns about Phillip Schofield, Liz Truss, and the cost of living crisis are among the best topical Christmas cracker jokes this year, according to a new poll.
Sun 04 December 2022
© ITV Vale! Plebs bows out with feature-length special
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
04/12/2022 … The best of the week’s comedy on TV, radio and on demand… Tuesday December 6 SEBASTIAN MANISCALO: IS IT ME?: A new Netflix stand-up special, recorded…
© Matt Crockett Mr Swallow is Mr Scrooge
The best of the week's live comedy
04/12/2022 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
Sat 03 December 2022
Does your pun elicit a groan?
That just shows people like it, says science
03/12/2022 … People enjoy puns, as much as they might groan at them, new research has found.
© C4 Sandi Toksvig cancels NZ tour due to illness
Comic contracts bronchial pneumonia
03/12/2022 … Sandi Toksvig has cancelled the New Zealand leg of her tour after being hospitalised with bronchial pneumonia.