The 50 most memorable gigs of the decade
Chortle founder Steve Bennett looks back at the Noughties
04/01/2010 … It's hard to believe, but Chortle is ten years old next month.
Mon 04 January 2010
lange04
04/01/2010 … AMERICAN comedian Arte Lange has been admitted to hospital for undisclosed treatment.
Sun 03 January 2010
no1403
03/01/2010 … MICHAEL McINTYRE has plunged off the top of the DVD chart – all the way down to No 14 – but still remains the bestselling stand-up DVD of the week, as all the…
Comedy pioneer Jean Carroll dies
One of the first female stand-ups
03/01/2010 … Jean Carroll, one of the first mainstream female stand-ups, has died in New York state at the age of 98.
Sat 02 January 2010
Fry quits Twitter
...while he writes more memoirs
02/01/2010 … Stephen Fry is to cease Twittering for up to four months while he writes the next volume of his autobiography.
Fri 01 January 2010
© BBC Jam and Jersualem axed
BBC drops Jennifer Saunders sitcom
01/01/2010 … The BBC has axed Jennifer Saunders’s sitcom Jam and Jerusalem, ending her 24-year partnership with co-star Dawn French.
Comedy Store Players
01/01/2010 … Twenty-five years the Comedy Store Players have been going; and you’ll be hard-pressed to think of many credible improv groups that have sprung up in all that…
Huge
01/01/2010 … Live comedy is notoriously difficult to portray on film, the illusion of spontaneity, the appeal for empathy and the reality of jeopardy poorly served by the distancing…