Dare to be hated

Chortle editor Steve Bennett on why Mrs Brown's Boys is like Stewart Lee's new project

01/02/2013 … Let’s hear it for Mrs Brown’s Boys.

'Remind me: Where are they starving?'

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

01/02/2013 … ‘It’s easier to make people laugh than it is to make them cry.

Win tickets to The 39 Steps

At a theatre near you

01/02/2013 … The comedy stage version of The 39 Steps is heading off on tour – and we have five pairs of tickets to be won to see a show near you.

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01/02/2013 … THE first episode of Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe attracted 1.

Patrick Morris at Comedy De Luxe

January 2013

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Roseanne 'planning TV comeback'

Sitcom in development for NBC

01/02/2013 … Roseanne Barr could be making a comeback to TV comedy.

Omar Hamdi

At Comedy De Luxe

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'Withering, hopeless, visceral'

Richard Tyrone Jones reviews his own self-hatred after attending an appalling anti-comedy night

31/01/2013 … Last night I had the misfortune to – no.