Copper-turned-comic Alfie Moore on racism
14/11/2014 … I've just read the Chortle news story in response to a PR company's response towards a reviewer's response of watching Jim Davidson's latest tour show No Further…
New academic research published
14/11/2014 … Comedy is sharply divided between acts that please the cultural elite and those who appeal to more popular tastes.
© HBO 14/11/2014 … John Oliver returned to the host’s chair on the Daily Show last night – to help Jon Stewart plug his new movie.
Put your Bottom where his was...
14/11/2014 … A memorial bench to Rik Mayall is to be unveiled today – on the same spot he was seen in the opening credits to Bottom.
14/11/2014 … Eddie Izzard has signed a deal to write his memoirs.
And what good timing, just as a Python series starts...
13/11/2014 … John Cleese has been hailed as the most influential British comedy icon of all time, according to a new survey.
Publicist raises threat of legal action
13/11/2014 … Jim Davidson is embroiled in a censorship row after his publicist pressured a journalist to change a review calling him a 'racist comedian'.
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