NextUp to stream 18 Leicester Comedy Festival shows
As coverage of last year's event claims viewers in 127 countries
23/01/2023 … NextUp will be streaming 18 shows from this year’s Leicester Comedy Festival, the platform has announced.
Mon 23 January 2023
© Channel 4 National Comedy Awards 2023 shortlists revealed
As Susan Wokoma, Jordan Gray and Lenny Rush scoop breakthrough awards
23/01/2023 … The shortlists have been announced for the National Comedy Awards – as organisers name Susan Wokoma, Jordan Gray and Lenny Rush as the winners of new…
Am I Being Unreasonable? makers recruit a head of comedy
Ladhood producer Joe Nunnery joins Boffola Pictures
23/01/2023 … Joe Nunnery, producer of the hit BBC series Ladhood, will be joining indie production company Boffola Pictures as head of comedy.
Sun 22 January 2023
Comedy from the Vaults
London's fringe festival is back, and the rest of the week's live comedy picks
22/01/2023 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 5,264 events Chortle currently has listed.
© C4 Waiting for the apocalypse
The week's best comedy on TV and radio
22/01/2023 … The best of the week’s comedy on TV, radio and on demand… Sunday January 22 15 STOREYS HIGH: The original radio version of Sean’s Lock’s…
Fri 20 January 2023
How to write 'hello' in Mandarin
20/01/2023 … Tweets and other posts of the week Used my Tesco Clubcard to scrape the ice off my windscreen this morning.
Comics film a second series of Left, Right & Centre panel show
...for Jim Davidson’s streaming service
20/01/2023 … Comedians including John Moloney, Bobby Davro and Cerys Nelmes are to take part in a panel show for Jim Davidson’s streaming service Ustreme.
© Manuel Harlan The Unfriend in the West End
Review of Reece Shearsmith and Amanda Abbington in Steven Moffat's comedy
20/01/2023 … How many farces are based on an English character’s social awkwardness and the misunderstandings that arise from their inability to be unambiguous, paralysed…