Student award: London People's Choice poll opens
28/02/2016 … Votes have now opened for the People's Choice award for the London heat of the Chortle Student Comedy award.
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Sun 28 February 2016
Ah feck, 'Father Jack' dies
28/02/2016 … Frank Kelly, who played Father Jack in Father Ted, has died aged 77.
Stew Lee, madly, deeply...
The pick of the comedy week ahead
28/02/2016 … The pick of the comedy week ahead.
© Jill Furmanovsky Daniel Sloss leads Scottish Comedy Award nominations
28/02/2016 … Daniel Sloss leads the nominations for this year’s Scottish Comedy Awards, being shortlisted for four gongs.
Sat 27 February 2016
Comic fights for the right to crack sick jokes
Mike Ward faces human rights tribunal
27/02/2016 … A comedian has been hauled up in front of a human rights tribunal for making a joke at someone's expense.
Fri 26 February 2016
Gilded Balloon to offer 'pay what you want'
More plans for Edinburgh's Counting House revealed
26/02/2016 … The Gilded Balloon is to run a ‘pay what you want’ model for shows in the Edinburgh Fringe venue it poached from the Free Festival.
Comedy festival charges straight, white men more
26/02/2016 … •'I'm 23 per cent gay.