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• The Lenny Henry Show returns

  14-08-2020 17:24 via chortle.co.uk
  Thanks to Radio 4
  
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• So You Think You're Funny? Best Bits

  14-08-2020 16:28 via chortle.co.uk
  Review by Steve Bennett
  
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• 'I don't think we'll try to get the Fast Show machine back up again'

  14-08-2020 16:28 via chortle.co.uk
  As a new retrospective airs, Charlie Higson mulls the show's legacy
  
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• 'I don't claim we were that innovative - but we were short and sharp'

  14-08-2020 16:28 via chortle.co.uk
  Paul Whitehouse on the legacy of the Fast Show
  
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• Ed Byrne and Desiree Burch join Best Home Cook

  14-08-2020 13:16 via chortle.co.uk
  Next series to be a celebrity version
  
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• Have I Got News For You gets its studio audience back

  14-08-2020 12:48 via chortle.co.uk
  ...but they'll be in a different room!
  
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• Comedians join the Celebrity Karaoke Club

  14-08-2020 11:08 via chortle.co.uk
  Joel Dommett, Judi Love and Luke Kempner to appear in ITV2 series
  
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• Comedy clubs can reopen from tomorrow

  14-08-2020 10:41 via chortle.co.uk
  ...though when they ACTUALLY will is still a moot point
  
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• Mandy

  13-08-2020 18:28 via chortle.co.uk
  TV preview by Steve Bennett
  
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• How Peter Sellers discovered his talent for comedy

  13-08-2020 17:02 via chortle.co.uk
  Exclusive extract from a new book about the Goon's formative years with the wartime gang shows
  
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• Selfish idiot ruins Russell Howard gig

  13-08-2020 15:24 via chortle.co.uk
  Comic forced to cut new material set short by woman filming
  
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• Comedy at the mansion

  13-08-2020 11:57 via chortle.co.uk
  Top comics gig to save historic London building
  
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• Adil Ray to host new ITV game show

  13-08-2020 11:21 via chortle.co.uk
  Word-based show Lingo seeks contestants
  
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• Tim Minchin releases a new single, Apart Together

  13-08-2020 10:59 via chortle.co.uk
  Title track from his first studio album
  
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• 'Part nice-but-dim cockney Herbert, part astute observer'

  12-08-2020 20:50 via chortle.co.uk
  We go back to the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe... and Micky Flanagan's debut show
  
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• Tim Vine wins Edinburgh... by giving it a miss

  12-08-2020 20:21 via chortle.co.uk
  Our look back at the Fringe of 2006
  
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• Fresh Prince of Bel-Air gets a gritty reboot

  12-08-2020 14:08 via chortle.co.uk
  Bidding war sparked by viral video
  
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• Steve Coogan mulls a big Alan Partridge live tour

  11-08-2020 16:30 via chortle.co.uk
  'I think in the next couple of years....'
  
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• Radio 4 orders stand-up series from Jamie McDonald

  11-08-2020 16:02 via chortle.co.uk
  About his experiences of being blind
  
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• Second Radio 4 series for Darren Harriott

  11-08-2020 11:09 via chortle.co.uk
  Promoted to the 6.30pm slot
  
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• Alan Carr to present Interior Design Masters

  11-08-2020 11:09 via chortle.co.uk
  Taking over from Fearne Cottonon BBC Two show
  
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• HBO snaps up George Carlin documentary

  10-08-2020 20:32 via chortle.co.uk
  Made by Judd Apatow
  
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• This Country duo start work on their next show

  10-08-2020 15:09 via chortle.co.uk
  Period comedy far removed from Kerry & Kurtan Mucklowe
  
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• Now THIS is a live streamed comedy show

  09-08-2020 11:12 via chortle.co.uk
  River gig with the punters on... well, punts
  
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• This podcast's a work of art...

  09-08-2020 00:37 via chortle.co.uk
  Plus lots of live-streamed gigs in today's best comedy on demand
  
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• The gig that aims to save live comedy...

  09-08-2020 00:37 via chortle.co.uk
  Today's best comedy on demand
  
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• Mark Thomas's off-the-wall stand-up

  09-08-2020 00:37 via chortle.co.uk
  Today's best comedy on demand
  
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• Little and Large's poignant last stage show

  09-08-2020 00:37 via chortle.co.uk
  Today's best comedy on demand
  
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• A new Messiah comes... to Amazon Prime

  09-08-2020 00:37 via chortle.co.uk
  Today's best comedy on demand
  
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• A comedian with Daddy Issues... who knew!

  09-08-2020 00:37 via chortle.co.uk
  Today's best comedy on demand
  
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• Eddie Izzard performs rooftop gigs

  09-08-2020 00:30 via chortle.co.uk
  The week's best live comedy
  
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• From Philomena Cunk to Mandy

  09-08-2020 00:24 via chortle.co.uk
  The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
  
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• Comedians rally to aid their colleague Simon Clayton

  07-08-2020 13:43 via chortle.co.uk
  £9,000 raised after circuit veteran suffered a stroke
  
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• Greenwich Comedy Festival WILL go ahead

  07-08-2020 13:19 via chortle.co.uk
  Big top swapped for open-air shows
  
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• How I Love Lucy conquered America

  07-08-2020 11:30 via chortle.co.uk
  New radio series to tell the story of sitcom phenomenon
  
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• BBC to repackage Live At The Apollo routines

  07-08-2020 11:00 via chortle.co.uk
  As series 16 is put on hold
  
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• Semi-Detached with Lee Mack

  06-08-2020 18:15 via chortle.co.uk
  TV preview by Steve Bennett
  
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• Production firm drops charges for comedy writers

  06-08-2020 17:12 via chortle.co.uk
  'Exploitation' claims after producers asked to be paid to consider sketch ideas
  
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• Radio 4 series for Kenyan comic Njambi McGrath

  06-08-2020 16:13 via chortle.co.uk
  Based on her 2019 Edinburgh show, Accidental Coconut
  
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• Production firm seeks comedy scripts - and makes the writers pay

  06-08-2020 15:49 via chortle.co.uk
  'At best naive - at worst a scam'
  
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• Comics to record Beatrix Potter stories

  06-08-2020 13:22 via chortle.co.uk
  Star-studded new audiobook
  
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• Daniel Sloss's stand-up special returns to cinemas

  06-08-2020 11:33 via chortle.co.uk
  X to air on three Vue screens next week
  
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• America dumps Taskmaster after just one episode

  06-08-2020 11:11 via chortle.co.uk
  UK original attracts poor ratings for The CW network
  
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• Squeamish About...

  05-08-2020 21:01 via chortle.co.uk
  TV preview by Steve Bennett
  
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• Minchin, Watson, Gilbert... and Jim Bowen

  05-08-2020 20:25 via chortle.co.uk
  Some of Chortle's reviews from the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe
  
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• Mark Watson writes his first movie

  05-08-2020 20:24 via chortle.co.uk
  Set to be directed by Toni Collette
  
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• Happy Happy Joy Joy? Ren and Stimpy make a comeback

  05-08-2020 15:25 via chortle.co.uk
  Comedy Central revives 1990s animation
  
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• The last Fringe show falls...

  05-08-2020 13:33 via chortle.co.uk
  Arthur Smith's tour of Edinburgh falls to victim to Covid
  
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• On what floor of Grace Bros is the haberdashery department?

  05-08-2020 13:33 via chortle.co.uk
  Test your comedy knowledge (and your memory of 70s sitcom theme tunes) in our weekly trivia quiz
  
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• BBC pilots a comedy about pupils excluded from school

  05-08-2020 11:06 via chortle.co.uk
  The PRU will celebrate the 'beautiful chaos' of their lives
  
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