Rosco McClelland wins Billy Connolly award
For a comedian who encapsulates the spirit of Glasgow
30/03/2025 … Rosco McClelland has won this year’s Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award.
Sun 30 March 2025
© UKTV Jack Dee and Jake Lambert vs Kyrgyzstan's roads
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
30/03/2025 … Our pick of the new comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Sunday March 30 WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS ROADS: In this week's episode, Jack…
National security breach... and Paddington bear
SNL's Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che
30/03/2025 … Colin Jost and Michael Che mocked the Signal group chat national security scandal on Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update last night.
Still afloat after all these years
London's Boat Show celebrates its quarter-century and the rest of the week's live comedy picks
30/03/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
Sat 29 March 2025
© Trevor Leighton How Jack Whitehall became a comic DESPITE his godfather
Nigel Havers did nothing to encourage the comic's ambitions
29/03/2025 … Jack Whitehall has had a pretty good comedy career – but with no help from his godfather, Nigel Havers.
James Acaster's car-crash comedy
Comic tried stand-up after compiling a bucket list after a road accident
29/03/2025 … James Acaster has told how he took up comedy as part of a ‘bucket list’ after he was in a serious car smash.
Anna completes the Chortle Student Comedy Award final line-up
Oxford PhD candidate wins the People's Choice place
29/03/2025 … Anna Rae George has been selected as the last finalist in this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award following a public vote.
© Ellis O Brien Jenny Eclair: Jokes, Jokes Jokes
Review of comedian's show inspired by her memoirs
29/03/2025 … Just before the interval a flash of insecurity crosses Jenny Eclair’s mind.