Why John Oliver has a sewage plant named after him
Bizarre beef with Connecticut city
24/08/2020 … Few comedians get immortalised by having a major public site named after them.
Mon 24 August 2020
Comedians join Roald & Beatrix movie
Rob Brydon,Jessica Hynes, Alison Steadman, Nick Mohammed, Nina Sosanya and Bill Bailey start filming
24/08/2020 … A raft of British comedy stars has joined the cast of a new family film inspired by the true story of when a six-year-old Roald Dahl met his idol Beatrix Potter.
Channel 4 to celebrate black comedy circuit
Mo Gilligan presents documentary for Black History Month
24/08/2020 … Mo Gilligan is to present a Channel 4 documentary about Britain’s black comedy circuit.
Sun 23 August 2020
© BBC/Nit TV/Ray Burmiston Harry Hill's World Of TV
23/08/2020 … Where have we seen this before? Harry Hill offering his surreal commentary on scenes from television… But Harry Hill’s World Of TV differs from the…
© BBC Famalam Season 3
23/08/2020 … It’s a shame the new series of Famalam has run into a racism storm on its release, as the row over offensive Jamaican stereotypes certainly doesn’t reflect…
'Vicious acid-queen putdowns of celebrities zing with a vitriolic passion'
Reviews of Katherine Ryan, Nish Kumar and more from the 2015 Fringe
23/08/2020 … A major change to Chortle’s reviews in 2015, as we introduced half-stars to try to add at least a little more subtlety to the blunt tool of the star-rating…
© The JPS/CC BY-SA 3.0 Comedians rally in support of The Stand
Love and concern as venues say they are on the brink of collapse
23/08/2020 … Comedians and comedy fans have rallied to the support of The Stand comedy club after it said it was on the verge of collapse.
Get hooked on Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse again...
The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
23/08/2020 … The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio.