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But despite the bad language, Dillie Keane, Adèle Anderson and Liza Pulman have an uplifting message everyone should try to adhere to. The trio have released the video to plug their three-night run at London’s Royal Festival Hall on January 2, 3 & 5 – part of their 40th Anniversary Tour.
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’. Publication will coincide with the eighth series of ...
Remembering Linda Smith : Features 2019 - Chortle
Jan 29, 2019 · Linda Smith would have been 61 years old today, had she not died as a consequence of ovarian cancer at the age of 48. Here we remember her with a dozen of her best lines… and couple of clips. ‘People knock ASBOs but you have to bear in mind they are the only qualification some of these kids are going to get.’.
You'd never get away with it today... - Chortle
Nov 20, 2017 · Since Chaplin thought condoms were ‘aesthetically hideous’, Grey got pregnant. Then he offered her $20,000 to marry someone else. Fearing statutory rape charges he agreed to marry her in Mexico, Though on the journey back he urged his wife - who he called ‘a ‘little whore’ – to throw herself from the train.
Schalk Bezuidenhout: Keeping Up : Reviews 2024 - Chortle
Oct 4, 2024 · Bezuidenhout’s delightful company and a deft storyteller, making as much as he can out of being effectively lightweight and middle-of-the-road, even if those characteristics might hold him back from making the leap from good comic to great artist. • Schalk Bezuidenhout: Keeping Up is touring the UK until October 27. Dates.
Ben Elton: Authentic Stupidity : Reviews 2024 - Chortle
Sep 19, 2024 · Tour review. Ben Elton is well aware of his evolution from the politicised firebrand who was the public face of 1980s alternative comedy to elder statesman of the stand-up scene, valiantly trying to battle fogeyism. ‘I’ve gone from a young man talking about what I knew to be true to an old man talking about what I don’t understand,’ he ...
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. In each episode – which will air on Radio 4 on Saturday mornings and released as a podcast – the pair will investigate quirky ...
Ousted from her own podcast! : News 2020 - Chortle
Sep 14, 2020 · Comedian Poppy Hillstead has complained about being unceremoniously dumped from a hit podcast she helped establish. The actor and film-maker launched Gossipmongers with stand-ups Joe Wilkinson and David Earl – best known for his alter-ego Brian Gittins – last year. However, she has been ditched for the fourth series, which launched today ...
How chaotic collaboration beats scripted punchlines
Oct 11, 2024 · At the same venue a little earlier, Grace Jarvis performed her third solo show Oh! The Horrors! as a reprise of her Edinburgh run. Jarvis, 26, calls herself a ‘kiwaussie' – half-Kiwi half-Aussie – and has recently moved to the UK. This hour is directed by Laura Davis, and the match between director and comedian may almost be too close.
Jane Horrocks was amazing... but she doesn't stop going on
May 4, 2021 · Samson Kayo co-created the new Sky One paramedic comedy Bloods, and also co-stars alongside Jane Horrocks, Lucy Punch, Julian Barratt Sam Campbell and others.