What was the name of the cockerel in The Good Life?
Try our festive Tuesday Trivia Quiz
12/09/2023 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Latest Features
Interviews with comedians, comedy reviews, Perfect Playlists and other comedy features, all collected in one place.
Tue 12 September 2023
Mon 11 September 2023
© BBC 'So many people took a risk on me... there's a lot riding on this'
Mawaan Rizwan talks about his new BBC comedy Juice
11/09/2023 … What can you tell us about Juice? Juice is a surreal comedy that follows my character Jamma as he stumbles his way through love.
Tue 05 September 2023
© BBC Who was Sybill always on the phone to in Fawlty Towers?
05/09/2023 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
A guy booked me to perform stand-up just for him and his date
Esther Manito's most memorable gigs
05/09/2023 … Esther Manito kicks off a UK tour of her latest show, Hell Hath No Fury, in Southend on Friday, following a run at the Soho Theatre in London last month.
Sun 03 September 2023
How Spitting Image axed sketches for fear of offending Royals
Satirists reveal tensions behind the first show
03/09/2023 … It was the satirical puppet show that had a reputation for taking no prisoners.
Tue 29 August 2023
Edinburgh Fringe comedy reviews 2023
All we saw at this year's fesitval
29/08/2023 … All Chortle's comedy reviews from the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe.
How much do you know about this year's Edinburgh Fringe?
29/08/2023 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, this week all about the past four weeks of the Edinburgh Fringe.
Fri 25 August 2023
Bonnie He: How it started, how it's going
American comedian gives us a status report on her first Fringe
25/08/2023 … We asked some Edinburgh Fringe debutants about their expectations of the festival before it kicked off.