Interviews with comedians, comedy reviews, Perfect Playlists and other comedy features, all collected in one place.
© BBC Celebrity Best Home Cook contestants Ed Byrne and Desiree Burch on their culinary experiences
19/01/2021 … Comedians Ed Byrne and Desiree Burch are among the ten contestants taking part in the latest TV culinary challenge, Celebrity Best Home Cook.
12/01/2021 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
05/01/2021 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Tours, TV shows, films and more
04/01/2021 … For everyone’s sanity, 2021 has to be the year when comedy returns.
© Carla Speight Chortle editor Steve Bennett compiles his most memorable shows of 2020
31/12/2020 … You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone… Joni Mitchell sure got that right.
The comedy performers, writers and actors who died this year
30/12/2020 … January Derek Fowlds, Yes Minister star, 82 Terry Jones, Python.
© GCB Films/Infinity Hill David Tennant and Michael Sheen on the return of Staged
30/12/2020 … Staged, the comedy which David Tennant and Michael Sheen filmed from their own homes during lockdown returns to BBC One at 9.
© ITV Test your knowledge of the comedy news of 2020...
29/12/2020 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
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