A critical situation
Comic creates a bespoke gig for Chortle's reviewer
18/04/2025 … What’s a comedian to do when they realise there’s only one person in their audience – and it’s a reviewer? For Australian absurdist Jordan…
Fri 18 April 2025
MICF: Mike McLeish: Pensive Like A Fox
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
18/04/2025 … Mike McLeish played Paul Keating in Keating! The Musical which stormed this festival 20 years ago.
Thu 17 April 2025
© NBC My four-part guide to making sure the British SNL isn't a flop
Part one, the sketches. By Lorcan Mullan
17/04/2025 … It should come as no surprise that Sky announcing a British version of the 50-year American institution Saturday Night Live was greeted with the usual ‘American…
Girl Of The Heart
17/04/2025 … Anyone missing 1980s electro Europop? Never fear, Kyle Gordon has nailed the genre with another of his spot-on musical parodies.
© BBC/CTVC 'A lot of people in the comedy world are downright hostile towards faith'.
Daliso Chaponda on doing the BBC's Pilgrimage
17/04/2025 … The new series of Pilgrimage airs this way as seven famous faces of differing faiths tackle a challenging 300km trek across the Alps, inspired by the…
© BBC/CTVC 'I think a lot... but that doesn't always come across in my work'
Helen Lederer on taking part in the BBC's Pilgrimage
17/04/2025 … The new series of Pilgrimage airs this way as seven famous faces of differing faiths tackle a challenging 300km trek across the Alps, inspired by the…
Now Joe Wilkinson joins Celebrity Traitors too
Comic reported to be joining Nick Mohammed on BBC reality show
17/04/2025 … Joe Wilkinson has reportedly joined the cast of Celebrity Traitors.
Hear Me Out... again
Channel 4 orders second series of its digital panel show
17/04/2025 … Channel 4 has ordered a second series of its digital panel show Hear Me Out.