© BBC Stars line up for BBC Comedy Festival
08/04/2024 … Armando Iannucci, Jennifer Saunders, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, and the cast of Two Doors Down are among the line-up of comedy talent taking part in this…
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Mon 08 April 2024
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© BBC/Bafta Chris McCausland and Lee Mack to make a Christmas comedy film
Bafta presenting dup reunite on a script from Ghosts writers
08/04/2024 … Chris McCausland and Lee Mack are to revive the partnership that stole the show at the 2022 Baftas in a new Sky comedy film.
Sun 07 April 2024
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Comedy duo win Sketch Off 2024
07/04/2024 … Comedy double act Burger And A Pin – aka Ted Milligan and former Chortle Student Comedy runner-up James Trickey – have won the 2024 Sketch Off competition…
Richard Gadd's Baby Reindeer begins – and Curb Your Enthusiasm ends
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
07/04/2024 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Sunday April 7 WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS ROADS: In the last episodes of the current series,…
Rosie Holt goes out on the stump
07/04/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
Thu 04 April 2024
© Two Rivers Glasgow Comedy Festival breaks records
04/04/2024 … This year’s Glasgow International Comedy Festival has been hailed as the most successful yet, with more than 50,000 tickets sold.
© Alex Lake Romesh Ranganathan and Natasia Demetriou cast in 1984
New audio version starring Andrew Garfield
04/04/2024 … Romesh Ranganathan and Natasia Demetriou have been cast in a new audio adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984.
Arrest after comic subjected to racial abuse
Hecklers hurl bigoted slurs at President Obonjo
04/04/2024 … A man has been arrested after a comedian was subjected to a barrage of racial abuse on stage, causing the gig to be halted.