Joanne Lau – Original Review

Review by Steve Bennett

12/06/2007 … Imagine if a black comic came on munching on a watermelon and singing a calypso.

Roddy Fraser – Original Review

Review by Steve Bennett

12/06/2007 … A lively but indifferent act, Glaswegian Roddy Fraser banters his way through mostly pedestrian material.

Clyde West – Original Review

Review by Steve Bennett

12/06/2007 … Seven long years ago, in one of the earliest reviews on Chortle, we wrote this of Clyde West’s routineThe room's always full of laughter when Clyde's on stage.

Lewis Schaffer – Original Review

Review by Steve Bennett

12/06/2007 … It used to be that Lewis Schaffer was considered something of a comics’ comic – but for all the wrong reasons.

11/06/2007 … ITV has commissioned a new six-part comedy drama, Sold, based around the world of estate agents and starring Kris Marshall and Bryan Dick.

11/06/2007 … Rentadick, a real curio of British comedy, was released on DVD last week – and we have six copies to give away.

'Mean and hateful'

Britain's real sense of humour

11/06/2007 … Britain’ sense of humour is becoming mean, racist and hateful, Lenny Henry claims.

He's back from the dead

Monkhouse revived for cancer ads

11/06/2007 … Bob Monkhouse has been bought back from the dead to spread the word about the cancer that killed him.