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The best of the week's live comedy
17/04/2022 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
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Sun 17 April 2022
© Trevor Leighton Sat 16 April 2022
Jerry Seinfeld's TV mum dies at 93
Liz Sheridan also starred in ALF
16/04/2022 … Liz Sheridan, who played Jerry’s mum Helen on Seinfeld, has died at the age of 93.
Fri 15 April 2022
Tributes as former Gilded Balloon manager dies
Mick Bateman also set up the London Comedy Festival
15/04/2022 … Tributes have been paid to former Gilded Balloon manager Mick Bateman who has died at the age of 60.
Thu 14 April 2022
© Channel 4/Avalon C4 orders Horne Section comedy
14/04/2022 … Channel 4 has commissioned a six-part TV series featuring Alex Horne and his band, The Horne Section.
Amy Schumer: I got death threats over Oscars joke
'The secret service reached out to me'
14/04/2022 … Amy Schumer has revealed that got death threats over a skit she performed at the Oscars.
© Hungry McBear / BBC Michael McIntyre’s Big Show to return after three years
...and another series for The Wheel, too
14/04/2022 … Michael McIntyre’s Big Show is to return for a sixth series, following a three-year hiatus because of the Covid pandemic.
Wed 13 April 2022
Channel 4 announces seven new comedy pilots
From Jordan Brookes, Rosie Jones, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and others
13/04/2022 … Channel 4 is piloting seven new comedy programmes featuring the likes of Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Jordan Brookes and Rosie Jones.
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue companion is released on audiobook
To mark 50 years of the Radio 4 stalwart
13/04/2022 … A definitive guide to I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue has been released on audiobook to mark the 50th anniversary of Radio 4’s ‘antidote to panel…