Chortle Student Award 2024: Watch the entrants from week one
First three semi-finalists named
23/02/2024 … Here are all the competitors at the first three heats of the Chortle Student Comedy Award held last week.
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Fri 23 February 2024
Thu 22 February 2024
In pictures: 30 years of the Frog and Bucket
Manchester comedy club celebrates its birthday tonight
22/02/2024 … Manchester Frog and Bucket comedy club is celebrating its 30th birthday tonight.
Wed 21 February 2024
'Humour was the only thing that helped me through grief'
Lucia Keskin on her new BBC sitcom Things You Should Have Done
21/02/2024 … Lucia Keskin, the comedian and actress who found online fame with her YouTube channel Chi With A C and played Kelly in Channel 4 comedy Big Boys, has written…
Tue 20 February 2024
'One of the smartest, dumbest things I've ever stumbled across...'
Ike Ufomadu picks his Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites
20/02/2024 … American comedian Ike Ufomadu – described by Vulture as ‘the gentleman-scholar of alt-comedy’ – is heading to the UK next week for a run…
Who did Emu attack on the Johnny Carson show?
20/02/2024 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Tue 13 February 2024
© BBC 'When you’re delving into big issues, it’s much more powerful to do so through comedy'
Daniel Lawrence Taylor on his new BBC show, Boarders
13/02/2024 … BBC Three’s new comedy-drama Boarders follows the lives of five talented black inner-city teenagers navigating their way through the British public school…
What was Bernie’s surname in Weekend at Bernie’s?
13/02/2024 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Mon 12 February 2024
© Ricochet Ltd 'A part of me is cavalier about survival... I can be a lunatic at times'
Rhod Gilbert and Angela Barnes on tackling one of the world's most dangerous roads
12/02/2024 … The World’s Most Dangerous Roads returns to Dave on Sunday, starting with Rhod Gilbert and Angela Barnes travelling Italy’s most treacherous Alpine…