Mel Giedroyc

27/07/2006 … With a little over a week to go before their West End show, their first full-on theatre performances for three years, you might expect Mel and Sue to be putting…

An interesting Development

The Bluths to go online

27/07/2006 … Every episode of American sitcom Arrested Development is to put online for free.

Chortle goes to Canada

26/07/2006 … Canada has produced some of the finest movie comedians of modern times - even if they are forever destined to be mistaken for Americans.

A week on the New York comedy scene

26/07/2006 … P>Day One   Ah, New York, New York.

CD review: Earl Okin - Musical Genius And Sex Symbol

26/07/2006 … Anyone who’s seen Earl Okin on the comedy circuit knows that he’s a true, eccentric original.

DVD review: Richard Pryor - Live In Concert

26/07/2006 … The single most significant thing to note about this seminal Richard Pryor DVD is tucked away in the small print next the copyright notice.

What made Lenny Bruce so special

26/07/2006 … Lenny Bruce is widely acknowledged as the man who changed the face of stand-up; the pioneer who made comedy an artform in which comics could tackle social and personal…

I'm quitting sitcoms

Gervais plans to write drama instead

26/07/2006 … Ricky Gervais plans to quit writing comedy.