'Louis CK made me love stand-up again'
Kerry Godliman on her comedy favourites
15/01/2013 … The RoadrunnerI used to watch Rolf Harris’ Cartoon Tme with my dad as a kid.
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Tue 15 January 2013
Sun 13 January 2013
Leicester Comedy Festival Preview Show
13/01/2013 … How do you sum up a whole festival of 520 shows in just one night? It’s a puzzle organisers of the Leicester Comedy Festival always face when programming their…
Fri 11 January 2013
The Way You Tell Them
Theatre review by Steve Bennett
11/01/2013 … The Way You Tell Them may be considered rather an odd choice to headline the Beyond The Joke strand of theatre-comedy crossovers at the Camden People’s Theatre,…
Tue 08 January 2013
Bane
Steve Bennett reviews the first part of the comic trilogy at Soho Theatre
08/01/2013 … Joe Bone is a man who not only never grew out of playing cops and robbers – he somehow managed to go professional.
Fri 04 January 2013
'I’m perpetually shockable. And the fact that I’m shocked means I have to write about it.'
Jay Richardson interviews Jonathan Lynn
04/01/2013 … In the newly revived Yes, Prime Minister – coming to digital channel Gold later this month – embattled PM Jim Hacker grapples with issues including a dire economic…
Sat 29 December 2012
Piccadilly Comedy Club Comedian Of 2013 Final
29/12/2012 … Sneaking in between Christmas and New Year, the Piccadilly Comedy Club shows there’s no corner of the calendar now free of new act finals.
Sat 22 December 2012
The End Of The World Show
22/12/2012 … As the face of astrophysics, Professor Brian Cox is used to thinking in terms of unimaginably long timescales, spanning the history of the universe.
Fri 21 December 2012
Free Phil Nichol track
From Nearly Gay & The Naked Racist
21/12/2012 … Another Christmas present for Chortle readers today – a free track from Phil Nichol’s new album.