BBC spends £88m on comedy
03/07/2007 … The BBC spent £88million on British comedy last year – and has vowed to spend even more in the next 12 months.
Tue 03 July 2007
© Trish Gant She's Osho funny...
03/07/2007 … Andi Osho, an actress who has been performing stand-up for less than five months, won the Funny Women new talent competition last night.
Katie Mulgrew – Original Review
03/07/2007 … A relative newcomer, Katie Mulgrew’s friendly technique triumphs over rather ordinary material.
Emily Haworth-Booth – Original Review
03/07/2007 … Well-spoken newcomer Emily Haworth-Booth has a very low-key delivery, teasingly slow and deliberately stilted as she describes in painstaking detail how sexy she…
Dave Johns – Original Review
03/07/2007 … Few comics play the cheeky buffoon quite as well as Dave Johns.
Mon 02 July 2007
The people have spoken
Chortle's last student finalist named
02/07/2007 … Mickey Anderson has made it to the finals of Chortle’s hunt for the best student comedian in Britain, after receiving the most votes from readers.
Put Brass in pocket
02/07/2007 … The classic Eighties ITV comedy Brass is out now on DVD – and we have five copies of the five-disc set to give away.