Meet the first Chortle student finalist of 2022
Jack Dearnley triumphs in Manchester
21/03/2022 … Jack Dearnley won the first semi-final of the Chortle Student Comedy Award in Manchester last night.
Mon 21 March 2022
Aimee Lou Wood to headline Dark Ages comedy movie
With Lolly Adefope, Nick Frost, Jessica Hynes and Nicola Coughlan
21/03/2022 … A host of top comedy names, led by Sex Education’s Aimee Lou Wood, are to star in Sieze Them! a new historical comedy movie set in Dark Ages Britain.
Standing Up
21/03/2022 … Following the huge global success of Call My Agent!, its creator Fanny Herrero has now turned her attention to the nascent French stand-up scene.
Sun 20 March 2022
© UKTV Desert island tricks
The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
20/03/2022 … Here’s our pick of the best comedy programmes on TV, radio and on-demand this week: Sunday March 20 GEORGE FOURACRES: BLACK COUNTRY GENTLEMON: A new…
Paul Merton's back on tour with his Impro Chums
The best of the week's live comedy
20/03/2022 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 7,158 events Chortle currently has listed.
Fri 18 March 2022
Rock Profile with Matt Lucas and David Walliams
Format revived for Red Nose Day
18/03/2022 … Here are Matt Lucas and David Walliams reviving their Rock Profile format for Comic Relief.
French and Saunders in the Repair Shop
18/03/2022 … Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have popped into the Repair Shop 'where much-loved treasures are brought back to life', The duo will reprise their characters…
Bill Bailey: Why the BBC rejected my Eurovision song
An ‘eco-anthem’ inspired by Dad's Army
18/03/2022 … Bill Bailey has revealed his bid for Eurovision was rejected by the BBC for being ‘too silly’.