A Short Walk To The Pub with Alexander Ubiquitous
18/07/2025 … Are TV executives stuck in a rut when it comes to commissioning shows in which middle-aged male comedians talk to each other? Here’s Channel 4’s new…
Fri 18 July 2025
'I’m a real billy-big-bollocks on stage'
Q&A with Chortle Hotshot Jessie Nixon
18/07/2025 … Jessie Nixon is the final Chortle Hotshots to be profiled here – the five Edinburgh Fringe debutants who we selected from gigs around the country…
AXED: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Critics say cancellation was a political sop to Donald Trump
18/07/2025 … American comedy talk show institution The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is to end in May, the CBS network has unexpectedly announced.
Thu 17 July 2025
© C4 Meet the comics on C4's A Comedy Thing
Line-up and formats for new digital channel announced
17/07/2025 … Channel 4 has revealed the comedians and formats to feature on its new digital channel dedicated to comedy.
Taking the pissoir
Rosie Holt writes a play about Rachel Reeves' urinal
17/07/2025 … Satirist Rosie Holt has written a new play about Rachel Reeves's real-life fight to get rid of the urinal in her private bathroom at No11 Downing Street.
Edinburgh 10x10: Comedians from Asia
Continuing our Fringe previews
17/07/2025 … Continuing our series previewing some of the comedians heading to the Edinburgh Fringe at the end of the month, here are ten comics of Asian origin: 1.
Here We Go series three trailer
17/07/2025 … The BBC has released a trailer for the third series of Here We Go ahead of its launch next Friday.
Joan Rivers documentary to feature previously unaired footage
Filmmakers granted access to comic's archive
17/07/2025 … A major new documentary about Joan Rivers will tap into hundreds of hours of previously unheard comedy recordings.