A special week of specials : News 2024 : Chortle : The UK Comedy …
Dec 8, 2024 · Saturday December 14. VICTORIA WOOD: LOOSE CHIPPINGS: This week's Archive On 4 is a treat for Victoria Wood fans, with a wealth of previously unheard recordings. Footage includes her first ever-gig from 1973; a BBC staff training exercise the following year; and her composing Have You Met Miss Babs from the Acorn Antiques musical – complete with her doing her own percussion noises – in her ...
Tom Allen becomes the face of People's Postcode Lottery
Aug 19, 2024 · Tom Allen has become the new face of People's Postcode Lottery. In a two-week campaign that comic will be fronting a series of TV commercials in a scarlet-red, three-piece suit as well as on billboards and social media pads.
Dara O Briain joins Radio 4’s Curious Cases - Chortle
Sep 27, 2024 · Dara O Briain has joined Radio 4’s Curious Cases with mathematician Hannah Fry. The comedian replaces broadcaster and writer Adam Rutherford in a new series of the science-based show when it returns next week.
Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly reunite for new comedy movie
Nov 1, 2024 · Steve Coogan is to be reunited with his Stan & Ollie co-star John C. Reilly for a film about rival actors. Set in 1847 New York, Reilly plays America’s top Shakespearian actor who is threatened when a critically celebrated English thespian, played by Coogan, arrives from London to perform his sophisticated Hamlet.
Who's on the 2024 Royal Variety Performance - Chortle
Nov 20, 2024 · Comedians Ellie Taylor, Matt Forde, Scott Bennett and Larry Dean will all be appearing at this year’s Royal Variety Performance.. The show is being recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Friday for later broadcast on ITV1, giving a huge profile boost to the stand-ups taking part.
New book from Gone Fishing's dog, Ted : News 2024 - Chortle
Aug 12, 2024 · Ted, the dog from Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse’s Gone Fishing, has 'written' his first book. His ‘pawtobiography’ is to be released in November and promises to expose ‘what it's like working alongside two national treasures and what really happens when the cameras stop rolling’.
Comic Marie Goulbourne dies at 46 : News 2024 - Chortle
Oct 22, 2024 · Comedian Marie Goulbourne has died unexpectedly at the age of 46 – five days after winning her heat of the BBC New Comedy Award. A statement on her website said: ‘We are heartbroken to share the tragic news that Marie has passed away.
To those we lost in 2024 : Features 2024 - Chortle
Dec 31, 2024 · Here are the comedy names we lost this year, and the tributes to them. To absent friends... Janey Godley. January, 20, 1961 to 2 November 2, 2024 (63)
Only Child : Reviews 2024 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
Nov 21, 2024 · Clashes between generations are a fertile ground for comedy, which Only Child farms expertly. Bryce Hart’s script is packed full of jokes, which Gregor Fisher and Greg McHugh deliver with such natural ease that they never feel forced. Beneath the gags, the show has plenty to say, too, about the strains of coming to terms with an ageing parent, yet does so with the lightest of touches.
Meet the 2024 BBC New Comedy Award heat winners
Oct 31, 2024 · Also judging the final are comics Josh Pugh and Shaparak Khorsandi.. The winner will receive a paid commission to write and perform a 30-minute audio pilot under the mentorship of a BBC comedy commissioner, plus a trophy and £1,000 cash.