Growing a human inside you? Have a free comedy ticket
Club's plan to make happier babies
01/03/2018 … It might be an extreme length to go to to blag free tickets… but a comedy club is letting pregnant women into their shows for gratis this month.
Thu 01 March 2018
Revealed: The swathes of material cut from Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
'Any fool can write but only a writer can cut’
01/03/2018 … Douglas Adams wrote an ‘elaborate and elegant’ opening for his third Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy book – which he subsequently ditched.
Second series for Richard Herring's Relativity
01/03/2018 … Radio 4 has ordered a second series of Richard Herring’s family sitcom Relativity.
Could you be Chortle's next reviewer?
Our bid to widen the range of critical voices at Edinburgh
01/03/2018 … Chortle today launches a search for a new comedy reviewer for the Edinburgh Fringe.
Wed 28 February 2018
Putting the comics in comic strip
New book based on stand-ups' war stories
28/02/2018 … Comedians’ stories of the ups and downs of life on the road have been turned into comic strips for a new book.
© Matt Crockett Tape Face, Tim Key and Mr Swallow return to Edinburgh
Pleasance reveals more 2018 Fringe shows
28/02/2018 … Tape Face, Mr Swallow, Tim Key and Mark Watson are among a new batch of Edinburgh Fringe shows to go on sale tomorrow.
© BBC New movie for John Cleese – and his daughter
Romcom filming in Bath this summer
28/02/2018 … John Cleese is set to star in a new film alongside his daughter Camilla and screen legend Sylvia Syms.
David Oyelowo on the Joel McHale Show
The things he does to promote his new movie...
28/02/2018 … David Oyelowo has bemoaned the humiliations highly actors have to put themselves through on comedy talk shows just to promote their movies.