© BBC / Mentorn A 21st Century Krypton Factor – with added science
13/03/2019 … Dara O Briain is to host a new BBC Two game show scientifically designed to find the most intelligent contestants.
Church would rather comedians didn't joke about it...
13/03/2019 … A Catholic bishop has demanded an apology over a Saturday Night Live joke that made reference to sexual abuse in the Church.
12/03/2019 … Tom Baker has said Rowan Atkinson told him to tone down his performance in Blackadder II for fear of being upstaged.
Trailer for her new Netflix special, Growing
12/03/2019 … Amy Schumer has released a trailer for her new stand-up special, claiming she's has a 'new-found gentility' now she's about to be a mother'Im done being dirty,'…
Five points on his licence for accident near his Fife home
12/03/2019 … Phill Jupitus has been £300 fined over a hit-and-run car crash.
Try our Tuesday Trivia Quiz... with a special Red Nose Day theme
12/03/2019 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly trivia quiz, now in multiple choice format and- compiled, as always by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
To mark his decade at Absolute Radio
12/03/2019 … Frank Skinner is to broadcast for a ten-hour stint on Saturday to celebrate a decade on air at Absolute Radio.
Jack Boyles joins the team after hunt for working-class and BAME writers
12/03/2019 … Chortle has recruited a new working-class reviewer to work at the Edinburgh Fringe in a bid to widen the field of critical voices there.
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