Chortle Student Comedy Award 2022: Final finalists named
Wildcards through to Edinburgh Fringe showcase
04/04/2022 … The last five Chortle Student Award finalists can be revealed today.
Mon 04 April 2022
© Matt Crockett Isy Suttie announces her first tour in six years
Peep Show star returns to stand-up
04/04/2022 … Isy Suttie is to go on tour for the first time in six years, with a new show about whether her a sense of adventure has been compromised by settling down and having…
Who's cancelled? Louis CK wins a Grammy
Outrage over shamed star's honour
04/04/2022 … Louis CK has won a Grammy award – showing he has been far from cancelled over his sexual misconduct.
Sun 03 April 2022
US comic Brandon Wardell to make his UK debut
Co-host of the Yeah But Still podcast comes to London
03/04/2022 … US comedian and podcaster Brandon Wardell is to make his UK debut next month.
© UKTV 'When you’ve written something yourself you forget what’s funny'
Sara Pascoe on the return of Comedians Giving Lectures
03/04/2022 … Sara Pascoe returns with a new series of Comedians Giving Lectures later this month, in which stand-ups take the titles of real lectures and Ted Talks and imagine…
Nothing like the Dame... Barry Humphries tours as himself
The best of the week's live comedy
03/04/2022 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the almost 7,000 events Chortle currently has listed.
Saturday Night Live on Will Smith
Plenty of gags in the Weekend Update segment
03/04/2022 … Colin Jost and Michael Che unleased a torrent of Will Smith jokes on Saturday Night Live last night.
© Asim Bharwani/CC BY-SA 2.0 Seinfeld star Estelle Harris dies at 93
'Serenity always,' says her sitcom son Jason Alexander
03/04/2022 … Estelle Harris, who played George Costanza’s overbearing mother on Seinfeld has died at the age of 93.