Enter the 2025 Chortle Student Comedy Award
12/02/2025 … Entries have opened today for the 2025 Chortle Student Comedy Award.
Wed 12 February 2025
The moment Peter Kay throws out hecklers
Drama at Manchester's AO Arena
12/02/2025 … This video – shot by a member of Peter Kay's audience at Manchester’s AO Arena – has been removed at the request of the comedian's…
© BBC Steve Coogan to star in The Good Life
An eco-drama, not a remake of the 1970s sitcom...
12/02/2025 … Steve Coogan is working on a film about greenwashing.
© Netflix Dave Chappelle honoured for being a 'voice of social consciousness'
Comic to receive award from NAACP civil rights group
12/02/2025 … It might come as news to the trans people upset by Dave Chappelle’s material about them – but the comedian is set to win a major award for being…
Sydney May takes Komedia's new act crown
Wes Defoe and Aiden Lonergan are runners-up
12/02/2025 … Sydney May was crowned winner of Komedia’s New Comedy Award in Brighton last night.
Tue 11 February 2025
In which film did Richard Ayoade play a killer droid?
11/02/2025 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Chortle Hotshots: See who performed in London
11/02/2025 … Here are extracts from the sets of the comedians who took part in the Chortle Hotshots showcase at London's Top Secret Comedy Club on Monday night.
© Matt Stronge Comedy has a glass ceiling problem
11/02/2025 … If you’re a comedy fan you’ll have your own examples: comics you feel are unjustly flying under the radar.