Win a joke book - just like that

Tommy Cooper's gags

30/09/2009 … The best of Tommy Cooper’s gags are being published in new joke book this week, and we have ten copies to gve away.

vitamin30

30/09/2009 … VITAMINWATER is encouraging would-be comedians to enter its talent competition - even though rules that demand 'no swearing, no rudeness and politically correct…

yoda30

30/09/2009 … CARL DONNELLY is to become the first stand-up to support a DJ on tour, appearing with DJ Yoda in a series of gigs starting in Leeds on October 21.

Never a Dahl moment

Minchin's Matilda musical for the RSC

30/09/2009 … Tim Minchin is writing a musical version of Roald Dahl’s novel Matilda for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Why is TV so scared of risk?

Nelson David on the 'unimaginative, derivative, culturally barren mulch' that gets commissioned

30/09/2009 … As I read Chortle’s edited highlights from the Broadcast TV Comedy Forum last week, it became very clear that the TV times they are a changin’.

Funny Guy

R4's Gunpowder Plot comedy

30/09/2009 … Radio 4’s often heavyweight Afternoon Play is being given over to sketch group the Penny Dreadfuls for a spoof history of Guy Fawkes.

Comedy makes a comeback

...in America, at least

30/09/2009 … Comedy has made a comeback on American TV, with eight half-hour sitcoms in the top 20 shows last week, the first of the new autumn season.

Radio 4 pilot for Richardson

Panel show about comic's 'strong ideas'

29/09/2009 … Jon Richardson is being lined up to host a new panel show for Radio 4.