All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo Father Ted writer held at Heathrow Airport
02/09/2025 … Graham Linehan has been arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of inciting violence via social media posts.
Comic, 85, repeats his complaints agains bureaucracy and
02/09/2025 … John Cleese has made one of his regular moans about the BBC, complaining there’s ‘been nothing funny since The Office’.
02/09/2025 … The 20th series of Live At The Apollo is to be recorded this month.
...and Katy Wix nominated for Big Boys
02/09/2025 … Animated comedy The Golden Cobra has been nominated for two Welsh Bafta awards.
© Arina Krasnikova/Pexels stock image Almost no progress made since landmark '11%' study
01/09/2025 … Seven years of lobbying broadcasters to employ more female sitcom writers has barely shifted the dial when it comes to equality, Chortle can reveal.
One-off live experience for Comic Relief
01/09/2025 … Ed Gamble and Suzi Ruffell have joined the cast of the one-off Traitors live experience, raising money for Comic Relief.
31/08/2025 … John Robins has written a memoir about his alcoholism.
The best of the week's live comedy
31/08/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,491 events Chortle currently has listed.
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