James Corden and Ruth Jones announce Gavin & Stacey event
29/07/2025 … Ruth Jones and James Corden have announced an ‘in conversation’ with event about Gavin & Stacey.
Tue 29 July 2025
© Stuart Hogben Comedy at Latitude 2025
29/07/2025 … Latitude remains the best outdoor festival for big-name live comedy, mitigating the effects of a daytime gig in a vast open-sided marquee with inevitable noise…
'This taught me how funny and absurd a piece can be while telling a beautifully human story'
Lachlan Werner picks his comedy favourites
29/07/2025 … Absurd comedy ventriloquist Lachlan Werner is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with his new show WonderTwunk, about the strongest boy in the world… Here he picks…
Tiff Stevenson on Chortle's Fast Fringe
Extract from her stand-up show Post-Coital
29/07/2025 … Here’s Edinburgh-bound stand-up Tiff Stevenson performing an extract from her festival show Post-Coital.
© David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 Eddie Murphy to play Inspector Clouseau
Pink Panther movies rebooted again
29/07/2025 … Eddie Murphy is to play hapless Inspector Clouseau in a new Pink Panther movie.
Madeleine Brettingham scoops West End comedy title
First 'New Woman Comedian of the Year' winner
29/07/2025 … Madeleine Brettingham has won the inaugural West End New Woman Comedian of the Year title.
Cerys Nelmes faces three years in Turkish jail
Comic cannot leave the country while shoplifting case is investigated
29/07/2025 … Comedian Cerys Nelmes is facing up to three years in a Turkish prison on shoplifting charges.
Mon 28 July 2025
You say Edinburgh Fringe venue was wrong to cancel Philip Simon
75 per cent say Jewish comic should not have been axed
28/07/2025 … Chortle readers believe Edinburgh Fringe venues were wrong to cancel Jewish comedian Philip Simon by a margin of three to one.