And the 2013 winners are...
25/03/2013 … Stewart Lee, Richard Herring and Tony Law were all double winners at tonight’s Chortle Awards.
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Mon 25 March 2013
Sun 24 March 2013
Matt Lucas goes silent
Physical comedy show planned for the BBC
24/03/2013 … Matt Lucas is working on a silent comedy series for the BBC, provisionally titled Pompidou.
Peter Kay jumps to BBC One
And his new series will air online first
24/03/2013 … Peter Kay is to make his first sitcom for BBC One, about two supermarket workers in a car-share scheme.
A joke writ large
Comic Kurt hires a skywriter for his punchline
24/03/2013 … American comedian Kurt Braunohler has spent $4,000 on a single joke.
Fri 22 March 2013
And the People's Choice winner is...
Remaining student semi-finalists announced
22/03/2013 … The winner of the People’s Choice place in the Chortle Student Comedy Award with ALCATEL ONE TOUCH can be revealed as Kevin O’Connell.
CBBC orders topical comedy series
22/03/2013 … CBBC has ordered a new topical comedy news series.
Vote for a dead Stewart Lee...
22/03/2013 … ‘With all due respect, it’s quite superficial.
Horrible Histories team create a Sky comedy
Humans and puppets in Yonderland
22/03/2013 … The team behind Horrible Histories are making a family comedy show called Yonderland for Sky 1.