Mock The Week is 'too aggressive'
01/01/2013 … Rory Bremner has claimed Mock the Week is too aggressive and too disrespectful to some of the comedians who appear on it .
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Tue 01 January 2013
Film stars...
Our first £200 video winner named
01/01/2013 … Milo McCabe and Toby Williams have won the first £200 prize in Chortle’s monthly video competition.
Sat 29 December 2012
Katt 'puts his children at risk'
Drug and gun arrest for Williams
29/12/2012 … American comedian Katt Williams has been arrested for allegedly endangering four of his children.
OBEs for Jeremy Lloyd and Nica Burns
Services to comedy and theatre
29/12/2012 … Sitcom writer Jeremy Lloyd and Edinburgh Comedy Awards producer Nica Burns have both been awarded OBEs in the New Year honours.
Fri 28 December 2012
XS makes an Xit
Manchester club to leave its area after 15 years
28/12/2012 … Manchester’s XS Malarkey comedy club is moving out of the neighbourhood where it began 15 years ago.
My cardboard cut-out dad
28/12/2012 … ‘I don't care how funny you think you are, people are entitled to think “oh no, not him again”,’ Mrs Brown’s Boys creator Brendan O'Carroll.
Only Fools comeback was on the cards
28/12/2012 … Only Fools and Horses creator John Sullivan was working on another comeback for Del Boy at the time of his death, star David Jason has revealed.
Thu 27 December 2012