2+ hour, 36+ min ago  (205+ words) New Zealand comedian Urzila Carlson launches all-female maintenance company Hire-A-Lez in this sketch. Newly posted to You Tube, "comes from her new self-titled series on Australia's ABC network which launched in April. The comic is heading to the UK on…...

2+ hour, 3+ min ago  (361+ words) Launching in Australia on July 27 The trailer has dropped for the third series of hit Australian romcom Colin From Accounts. The show picks up from the cliffhanger from series 2, in which Patrick Brammall's character Gordon proposed to Harriet "Dyer's Ashley…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (324+ words) The Mock The Week panel take aim at Andy Burnham in the episode set to air on Sunday. Angela Barnes pooh-poohed the idea that the probable next prime minister was a "charisma bomb, describing him instead as "Keir Starmer with…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (749+ words) Mark Normand admits his story of defiance against woke Netflix execs was all a lie Striking a bold blow for free speech, comic Mark Normand defended a joke about Muslims from Netflix censors who wanted to cut it, having been…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (430+ words) 30 acts on one amazing bill The line-up has been announced for Chortle's London Fast Fringe showcase. Arthur Smith will again host a manically-paced evening'with 30 comedy and variety acts offering a giddy sample of the Edinburgh Fringe in one fun-packed extravaganza....

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (1056+ words) Almost no progress made since landmark '11%' study Seven years of lobbying broadcasters to employ more female sitcom writers has barely shifted the dial when it comes to equality, Chortle can reveal. Just 11 per cent of sitcoms were written entirely by…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (198+ words) The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week. DEE ALLUM: DEADNAME: The comic's acclaimed debut show from 2024 " all about her trans experience " has just been released on…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago  (284+ words) Here's the first clip of Steve Coogan in Funboys. The Alan Partridge and Legends star plays a frustrated actor who's ended up at a folk museum playing a pompous, cruel and petty land steward at the time of the famine....

3+ week, 21+ hour ago  (250+ words) Recorded with the Scottish Symphony Orchestra Comic Rosco Mc Clelland has recorded a World Cup anthem with the Scottish Symphony Orchestra. BBC Scotland teamed the stand-up with the musicians after he revealed on a televised version of the panel show…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (446+ words) Crisis-hit Leicester Comedy Festival has cancelled its outdoor summer festival with less than two weeks" notice. Lou Sanders, "Phil Ellis and Tom Rosenthal were among the acts slated to play the" LCF In The Park gig on June 14. But organisers…...