All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
We can be more distinctive and creative, programme-makers say
27/05/2025 … Britain’s TV comedy producers are not only accepting the reality that they’ll have to make shows on a shoestring budget - but finding the positives in…
27/05/2025 … An authorised biography of Rik Mayall is to be published… but not until March 2028 on what would have been his 70th birthday.
© Jonathan Kemp Photography Ahead of the gig at Clapham Grand
27/05/2025 … The finalists for the LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year 2025 have been announced.
© Two Rivers Comic felt backlash harmed his career, says TV exec
26/05/2025 … Frankie Boyle privately admitted that it one of his most controversial jokes should never have aired, the TV executive who signed it off has revealed.
Shares best international act prize with Australia's Elouise Eftos
26/05/2025 … Scotland’s Rosco McClelland has been named best international act at the New Zealand Comedy Festival.
25/05/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© Boffola Pictures The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
25/05/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Sunday May 25 DEATH VALLEY: This new Welsh-set comedy detective series from Mammoth and…
Team captain opposite GK Barry
25/05/2025 … Jamali Maddix is to be a regular panellist Jimmy Carr’s new series Am I The A**hole?, Comedy Central has announced today.
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