Which are the best comedy venues of 2022?
First Chortle Award winners announced
29/03/2022 … Today we can reveal the winners of the venue categories of the Chortle Awards.
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© BBC Bleak Expectations heading for the stage
New theatre version of Radio 4's Dickensian spoof
29/03/2022 … Radio 4 Dickensian spoof Bleak Expectations has been adapted for the stage The ‘story that Charles Dickens might have written after drinking too much gin’…
Who won an Oscar for A Fish Called Wanda?
Try a special awards edition of our Tuesday Trivia Quiz
29/03/2022 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
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99 Club revives its bursary
For female and non-binary acts
29/03/2022 … London’s 99 Club has revived its bursary scheme for female and non-binary comedians after the pandemic hiatus.
More Chortle student semi-finalists named
...just the wildcards to go now!
29/03/2022 … Jin Hao Li has become the latest stand-up to make it to the final of the Chortle Student Comedy Award.
© UKTV Richard Ayoade to front more Question Teams
Second series ordered for the Dave channel
29/03/2022 … Richard Ayoade is to make a second series of Question Team for Dave.
Unseen Tony Hancock ephemera to be published
Treasure trove of memorabilia from the family
29/03/2022 … A treasure trove of previously unseen Tony Hancock material is to be released in a hefty new book put together by the comedian’s great-niece Lucy.
Satirical thriller about an activist stand-up is heading to TV
Production company Roughcut buys rights to new novel Goddess
29/03/2022 … A darkly comic novel about a mixed-race stand-up is to be adapted into a TV show.