A snapshot of topical comedy

12/07/2006 … With Rory Bremner just starting a five-week West End run, and Mark Thomas and Robert Newman both road-testing material at the Soho Theatre, fans of topical and political…

Mark Thomas on the humour in activism

12/07/2006 … State-sponsored murders, the hysterical hatred of asylum-seekers, a racist, torturing regime forcing thousands of people out of their homes - most people would hardly…

Chortle goes to Canada

09/07/2006 … Canada has produced some of the finest movie comedians of modern times - even if they are forever destined to be mistaken for Americans.

Hugh Dennis interview

03/07/2006 … Over the past six years, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis have pretty much cornered the market in mass-appeal topical comedy, what with 13 series of The Now Show and 11…