What was Joan Rivers' real surname?
Try the 400th Tuesday trivia quiz
15/09/2026 … 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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Tue 15 September 2026
© BBC 'I'm treating this more as a gig than a quiz show'
John Bishop on hosting the BBC's Wisdom Of The Crowd
15/09/2026 … John Bishop hosts the new BBC quiz show Wisdom Of The Crowd this weekend.
Wed 09 September 2026
© BBC 'Someone's job is to keep me out of prison'
09/09/2026 … It’s run for 17 seasons and is BBC audio comedy at its finest and most inventive – but I have to admit that Jon Holmes’s Radio 4 show and podcast…
Tue 08 September 2026
© MGM-photo by Ted Allan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons What was Groucho Marx's real name?
08/09/2026 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Mon 07 September 2026
Win tickets to Avenue Q
And an overnight stay in London
07/09/2026 … The triple Tony Award-winning comedy musical Avenue Q is back on the West End stage – and Chortle has two tickets to be won, plus an overnight London…
Tue 01 September 2026
© BBC Which company supplies the robots in Ann Droid?
01/09/2026 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
© Studiocanal / BFI National Archive Win a major new Peter Sellers box set
We have three copies to give away
01/09/2026 … A box set of eight classic Peter Sellers performances was released on Blu-ray yesterday – and we have three copies to five away.
'We always get there in the end. And if we haven’t got there, it isn’t the end...'
Omid Djalili on staying hopeful in an angry world
01/09/2026 … Omid Djalili’s four-part Radio 4 stand-up series, Namaste, starts later this month.