Student Awards: Our first heat winner!
21/02/2014 … GEORGE ERLANGER has become the first new comedian to make it through to the semi-finals of the Chortle Student Comedy Award, with ALCATEL ONETOUCH and Universal…
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Fri 21 February 2014
Did the earth move?
21/02/2014 … WTF: Weekly Trivia File• 'I'm bored of my own face.
Thu 20 February 2014
Comedy radio station launches
With podcast kings Richard Herring, Peacock & Gamble
20/02/2014 … Richard Herring, Peacock and Gamble and Carl Donnelly are among a raft of comedians broadcasting on a new radio station.
Rhys Darby joins Modern Family
Special episode being shot in Sydney
20/02/2014 … Rhys Darby is set to appear in American sitcom Modern Family.
Wed 19 February 2014
How the bland and the posh failed alternative comedy
Alexei Sayle on 35 years in the business
19/02/2014 … Today’s stand-up scene has lost almost all links to the revolutionary spirit that first launched alternative comedy, Alexei Sayle has claimed.
Speaking ill of the dead...
Comic's bad-taste seance to mark anniversary of Thatcher's death
19/02/2014 … Stand-up Nathaniel Tapley is to mark the first anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s death with a comically disrespectful seance to raise her spirit from beyond…
Chris Morris to appear in Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
19/02/2014 … Chris Morris is to appear in the new series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle.
Karen Gillan cast in US sitcom
Dr Who star takes lead in Selfie
19/02/2014 … Doctor Who’s Karen Gillan is to take the lead role in a new American sitcom called Selfie.