Chortle Student Comedy Award 2022 launched
Win a trip to perform in Australia
28/01/2022 … Entries are now open for the 2022 Chortle Student Comedy Award.
Fri 28 January 2022
Chris Morris? He's the nicest guy ever
Brass Eye at 25: Interview with director Michael Cumming
28/01/2022 … Twenty-five years ago today, Brass Eye first aired on Channel 4.
© BBC BBC pilots a comedy from Fergus Craig's Martin Fishback
Hapless middle-aged dad gets a TV break...
28/01/2022 … Fergus Craig has shot a BBC Two pilot based on the hit viral videos he makes as a socially inept middle-class dad.
© BBC The Goodies are back... in book form
Novella charts a new adventure for Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor
28/01/2022 … The Goodies are to make a comeback – as the stars of a new novella.
Was this Barry Cryer's last joke?
Comedy great shared the one about the Archbishop Of Canterbury....
28/01/2022 … Was this the last joke Barry Cryer told? Announcing the comedy star’s death, his family said: ‘It'll be of no surprise to those that knew and…
Thu 27 January 2022
Nish Kumar: Your Power, Your Control
27/01/2022 … Vehemently ranting against the evils and chaos of the Tory government, Nish Kumar could be the angriest man in comedy.
© BBC BBC pulls its Friday Night Comedy podcasts from Apple and Google
Fans will be forced to use BBC Sounds instead
27/01/2022 … The BBC is taking its popular Friday-night radio comedy shows off all the major podcast platforms – except for its own.
© c4 C4 orders two more series of The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan
Comedian to return later this year
27/01/2022 … Channel 4 has ordered a third and fourth series of The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan.