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"chortle" Definitions
  1. an act of laughing loudly with pleasure
"chortle" Synonyms
chuckle laugh cackle giggle titter guffaw crow hee-haw roar scream snicker snigger twitter tee-hee break up crack up gurgle sniggle snort teehee boff boffo boffola cachinnation horselaugh laughter belly laugh shriek More
"chortle" Antonyms
cry weep bawl bewail blubber wail sniff snivel sob squall lament mewl pule whimper be in tears break down burst into tears choke up dissolve in tears let it all out praise silence shut up keep quiet quieten quiet still hush shush blubbering crying snivelling(UK) sniveling(US) wailing bawling bewailing howling sobbing tears weeping whimpering yowling lamentation shedding tears seriousness tragedy sadness unhappiness

213 Sentences With "chortle"

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With a chortle, he would send people to the guillotine.
Yes, you are allowed an eye roll and a chortle.
Mona Lisa's flickering smile seems like a chortle in comparison.
They blow up a rocket on a launchpad and we chortle.
They chortle and squall and cover up the sounds I make.
"Baby Ruth," they'll chortle before slurping the dregs of a Miller Light.
We might lament the hegemonic power of Amazon or chortle at Pets.
Its songs keel over in pain then let out a hearty chortle seconds later.
It's also a very small mistake, and he acknowledged it with a nice, self-aware chortle.
Children ride their bikes to community pools and grow up listening to alligators chortle at night.
Letting the chauvinists chortle over Riggs's victories would not help in the battle for public opinion.
What I Love 9 Photos View Slide Show ' The actress Lena Hall has a big, infectious chortle.
Feel free to chortle/snort/howl at the moon when I tell you the accused fraudsters are Republicans.
When a calm Mr. Weinstein tries to explain that his only agenda is "the truth," the students chortle.
I still get these frequently, and struggle with whether to kindly point out how Twitter works, or chortle to myself.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Desiree Fairooz 's laugh was the self-described "chortle of disdain" heard around the world.
Chortle reports that Carnage: Swallowing the Future will be set in a fictional 2067 where everyone eats a plant based diet.
But ultimately, it was German astronomer Johann Elert Bode who would seal Uranus's fate as the most chortle-worthy of planets.
"I wrote that song at McDonalds eating a Quarter Pounder with mayonnaise on it," he says of the original with a chortle.
From Indianapolis to Innsbruck, they share the same open-source politics, fume over the same grievances and chortle over the same in-jokes.
There were some very good puns (EGO as "Massage target, perhaps" made me chortle) and a couple of obscurities, for me at least.
"It was like everyone else had expected me to go off and plant flowers and pad around in comfortable shoes," Ms. Nevins said with a chortle.
Read more " _____ Joan Walsh in The Nation: "As we marvel or chortle or freak out over these many new revelations, let's keep our wits about us.
You've got the portmanteau: a word that's made up of bits of two other words that are suitable, like chortle, for when you both chuckle and snort.
And if you want just a minute straight of Bezos' famous chortle, here ya go: And let's just play that 1999 clip one more time for good measure.
Or so it seemed: the chortle of an unseen man in a subway station, the humor that provoked it a mystery, out of earshot of a passing commuter.
The teenagers of today, in my experience, chortle (and bristle) at racist memes on Instagram, explore trollish sectors of Reddit, and absorb frequent police shootings of unarmed black men.
Tasha: This is such a small thing in such a large and fulfilling episode, but oh man, did I ever get a chortle out of Davos Seaworth correcting Jon's grammar.
Upon arriving to the Los Angeles Convention Center on Saturday, I couldn't help but chortle at the sight of three very distinct groups of people jumbled in the same place.
Ask anyone who's been inside a Starbucks how easy it is to zero in on the drink you actually want to order, and you may get a chortle or two.
The series of books ended in 2012; one wonders what Patrick would have made of the Leave campaign, and if his country's predicament would extract a chortle or a sob.
As for Trump, he can chortle all he wants tonight but he can't escape two facts tonight or ever: First, leading Republican U.S. senators, privately and in the case of Sens.
Its placement in the "comedy" category at the Golden Globes was a testament to its scintillating wit and chortle-inducing script, but it definitely obscured the film's pointedly dark, even grim worldview.
The show is also filmed in front of a live studio audience, whose laughter is miked up in a way where every single chortle serves to create a massive cacophony of sound.
Though Sleggs did not specifically mention the illness he was suffering from, several outlets including Chortle (which the actor shared on his Facebook page Thursday) have reported that he is dying from cancer.
Don't acknowledge good news through gritted teeth, or chortle at the president's boastful delivery, or content yourself with the thought that Barack Obama also had some strong quarters and deserves all the credit.
" The Sénateur speaks in orotund donations—"I will give you a story," or "Mon vieux, I have been haunted by a dream" —and is always resoundingly theatrical: "The Sénateur's chortle had progressed to a guffaw.
Maybe it's her central casting-worthy chortle, or her soothing delivery or the sight of Chewbacca with a mismatched lady voice coming out of his mouth, but something about it really hit people the right way.
The narrative paintings are good for a chortle, but the meditative images create an echoing stillness in the viewer, as if they would facilitate some sort of psychotherapeutic self-treatment, that might also include holding a drowsy cat.
It's still a visual festival of '80s culture that sometimes hinges significant jokes on the assumption that the audience knows the filmography of Robert Zemeckis, or will chortle over a reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Though Sleggs did not specifically mention the illness he was suffering from, several outlets including Chortle (which the actor shared on his Facebook shortly after the announcement, but has since deleted) reported that he was dying from cancer.
SUNDAY PUZZLE — I had a great time solving this Walden/Fagliano confection after brunch Thursday morning, and for some reason remembered its title as "Fauxmanteau," which made me chortle to think of out loud but was a ridiculous fabrication. Messrs.
Even though researchers and patients may never fully comprehend each other, even though (and maybe because) most of us cannot victoriously galumph back from our cancer engagements, we need to find occasions to chortle in beamish and frabjous talk together.
Where I differ from the Trump supporters who chortle at the deservedly negative reaction to Wolf's words is that I believe the worst aspect of her words was that they were too much like the vindictive insults regularly dished by Trump.
When I became Bubbe to my now 3-year-old granddaughter, Bartola (a family nickname, a nod to the former Mets pitcher Bartolo Colon), I was startled by how much came flooding back: songs, diapering techniques, silly stuff that makes babies chortle.
" "Wicked, wicked junglist massive" has become "one of those refrains that you know before you hear," wrote Sam Willis for THUMP, "a sound plugged into our collective consciousness like the riff in Deep Purple's 'Smoke On The Water' and the booming chortle of Brian Blessed.
"The last 10 months of my life have been somewhat stressful facing trial and the possibility of jail time and a criminal conviction for a chortle so I am greatly relieved that I will not stand trial again," Fairooz said in a statement to HuffPost.
He's the first to call bull on the absurd plan to "control" dinosaur DNA in Jurassic Park, the loudest to scream-chortle his way through space travel among the jaded crew in Independence Day: Resurgence, the deputy going above-and-beyond to investigate a suspicious death in The Grand Budapest Hotel.
It provides plenty of opportunity for Reubens to mug it up with his usual Pee-wee laugh and chortle, and he and co-writer Paul Rust (Comedy Bang-Bang, Arrested Development) nail some truly great moments; Pee-wee impressing the Amish community with his ballooning skills is a particular high point.
He's cheerful in the face of the void, happy to swoop down upon the beat and chortle a few free-associative verses while ducking sonic detritus like the simulated electric violin on "Coolest Monkey in the Jungle" or the echoey cymbal effects on "Bukkake," disappearing before it all blows up in his face.
There's almost a weird poignancy to the way the world has started to change, started to recognize the pain of those who survive sexual harassment and assault, while the Paddy's gang's attitudes remain, effectively, those of juvenile 20-somethings who think the most shocking thing you could do is call a woman a bitch and then chortle about it.
It was nominated for best internet show at the 2010 Sony Awards, though it failed to place. On 7 February 2011, As It Occurs to Me won the first Chortle Internet awardVictoria Wood honoured at Chortle Awards : News 2011 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide. Chortle. Retrieved on 24 May 2011.
The Chortle awards were set up in 2002 by the comedy website Chortle to honour the best of established stand-up comics currently working in the UK. As of 2002, the Chortle Awards are the only UK-based awards that solely honour the live work of stand-up comedians at a professional level. A panel of reviewers draw up a shortlist, which is presented for public vote at the Chortle website.
Pat Cahill is a British comedianThe Guardian "This Week's New Comedy" 28 January 2012 and Chortle Best Newcomer winner 2012.Chortle "Chortle Page, Pat Cahill" 2012. He was educated at the University of East Anglia. Performing since 2009, Cahill has had the majority of his success in 2012.
Matt Rees is a Welsh comedianSouth Wales Echo "Matt Rees is the Welsh Comedian Who Can't Stop Winning" 21 December 2012. from Maesteg, Wales. Rees is a Chortle Awards nominee.Chortle "Chortle Page, Matt Rees" 2012.
Stephen Grant (born 2 July 1973 in Brighton) is a British comedian, comedy writer, and radio presenter. He hosts the Krater Comedy Club at Komedia in Brighton, which won the Chortle Award for Best Comedy Club in the South for 2002–2006, 2008, and 2011–2014.Brighton Komedia. Chortle. Retrieved 22 July 2016. In 2008 and 2011, Grant won the Chortle Award for Best Compère.
Its playful, whimsical language has given English nonsense words and neologisms such as "galumphing" and "chortle".
So he's releasing a bevy of albums of late, and I shan't cachinnate nor chortle at this dispatch.
In 2014 he was nominated for three Chortle Awards and was nominated in 2014 and 2015 for the Melbourne Barry Award.
But Mack took the copycat level-headedly, quoted by Chortle news as saying, 'this Australian comedy genius is being unfairly treated.
Magic Steve's Disappearing Act' review : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide. Chortle. Retrieved 26 August 2011. She appeared in her second solo show, "Isabel Fay: Altar Ego", in 2007; and her third, "Don't Let A Gift Horse in the House", at the Pleasance Courtyard in 2008.Isabel Fay: Don't Let A Gift Horse In The House. Metro.co.
Chortle is a British comedy website launched in 2000 by Steve Bennett. The site is a major source of comedy news in the UK. It also reviews comedy shows nationwide, including extensively at the annual Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and presents the Chortle Awards to honour the best stand-up comics working in the UK. In recent years, the site has also branched out into events promotion.
The venue has a seated capacity of 440 and a standing capacity of 600.Live Music At The Glee Club Glee.co.uk ITV Wales broadcast a series of eight stand up shows from the venue in 2006.ITV Glee - Late-night showcase for stand-up Chortle, April 23, 2006 It won the Chortle Award for Best Venue (Wales and West) 10 times between 2002-2017.
Chortle - New Suffragette Comedy for Vicki Pepperdine and Joanna Scanlan. In that same year, she appeared as Aunt Sally in the BBC children's miniseries, Worzel Gummidge.
Stephen Grant. Chortle. Retrieved 22 July 2016. In the early 2000s, Grant wrote and hosted several documentaries for BBC2.Hawkins, Si. "Circuit Training 28: Stephen Grant".
The show won the Chortle Radio award on 20 March 2017. In 2020, the show won a Gold Award at ARIAS in the category of 'Funniest Show'.
They also performed a live show in the winter of 2009, which has not been released for download. The podcast is well-acclaimed, having been nominated for numerous Chortle awards.
Richardson began doing stand-up in November 2009 aged 18. He appeared in the finals of So You Think You're Funny and the Chortle Student Comedian of the Year in 2010.
In 2013, Herring won the Chortle Award for his Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, which again won the award in 2014. Chortle. Retrieved on 29 March 2014. In 2012 he had recorded the first 16 episodes of the long-running Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast with guests including Tim Minchin, Stewart Lee, Adam Buxton, David Mitchell and Armando Iannucci. It was nominated for a Sony Award for Best Comedy alongside a list of BBC produced comedy shows in 2013.
Chortle, 9 October 2002. Retrieved 27 May 2017. Monkenhurst is locally listed by the London Borough of Barnet.Monken Hadley Conservation Area Character Appraisal Statement London Borough of Barnet, Barnet, 2007, p. 38.
Comedy website Chortle opined that "Jackson Park Express" is the best song on the album and "arguably the funniest one he's ever written."'Weird Al' Yankovic keeps changing his tune. chortle.co.uk. Retrieved August 10, 2014.
In 2010, Jo Caulfield was nominated as 'Funniest Woman 2010' (LAFTA Awards). She has previously been nominated as 'Best Female Comedian 2002' (Chortle Awards), 'Best Compere 2004' (Chortle Awards) and one of 'The 100 Greatest Stand-Ups' (Channel 4). She has appeared at major comedy clubs, both in the UK and overseas, and has completed two solo nationwide tours, and a further three as support act of Graham Norton, Puppetry of the Penis and Rory Bremner. For the last nine years, Caulfield has taken a new solo comedy show to the Edinburgh Fringe.
The site is seen as a "one-stop shop for breaking news, reviews and all manner of inflammatory opinion" and is considered to offer some of the "more balanced reviews" of the annual Edinburgh Fringe. It has been said that for comedians, "a positive write-up from Chortle (particularly from editor Steve Bennett), is the holy grail of the Fringe." Satirical website FringePig called it "the conservative majority of the industry; far more people read it than will freely admit". Unlike some other websites, Chortle has no printed format.
In 2008 he won the Chortle Award for Best Off-Stage Contribution for his work promoting comedy in the North West and at XS Malarkey. In 2009, Hadoke appeared in the UK tour of the hit American improv show, Totally Looped.
Wool won the Best of Fest award for his 2010 appearance at the Sydney Comedy Festival. He was nominated in the Best Headliner category at the Chortle Awards in 2008, and Best International Stand Up at the 2003 New Zealand Comedy Awards.
Two laughing men by Hans von Aachen, circa 1574. Laughter can be classified according to: # intensity: the chuckle, the titter, the giggle, the chortle, the cackle, the belly laugh, the sputtering burst.Drewniany and Jewler (2007) Creative Strategy in Advertising, 9th edition, ch.1 p.
Soundcloud Ben Walters reviews Wilfredo: Erecto for Time Out, retrieved 02-09-11 The comedy industry website Chortle observed the character as "cantankerous, often lecherous and almost certainly consumptive, coughing and burping his way through the set, at one point hacking up phlegm like a horse chewing a toffee."Chortle Chortle.co.uk Edinburgh Fringe 2011 – Wilfredo: Erecto! review, retrieved 02-09-11 At the 2012 Edinburgh Festival, Roper appeared opposite Phil Nichol in a one-off performance at the Traverse Theatre for Theatre Uncut's season of radical playlets, playing an advertising executive representing a global corporation in Indulge by the Icelandic playwright Andri Snaer Magnuson.
The series has been described by The Guardian as "wickedly entertaining" and "the sharpest new sitcom of 2019". Chortle said that the first episode of the show is "certainly funny and involving enough to entice any viewer". The Arts Desk noted that the action shifts are "cleverly visualised".
The Free Festival has received coverage from Sky News, BBC, Culture Show, The Guardian, The Times, The Scotsman, The List, Metro, Chortle and many other local publications. In 2009 75% of Free Festival shows were reviewed 3 star and above, with thirty 4-star and 20 5-star reviews.
Chortle, 24 Jan 2010 A compilation of Grant's comedy was made after his death, entitled Is it just me?. A grant is presented in his name to emerging comedians who are participating in their first Adelaide fringe comedy show."Sikh comedian smirks at stereotypes". Indian Link, May 02, 2012.
Boldsworth made his debut at the Edinburgh Festival in 2002, originally as a brash Yorkshireman character named Ray Peacock who soon became a regular act on the live circuit. In his 2006 show at the Edinburgh Festival, the character was dropped in all but name and a confessional stand-up show entitled "Out of Character" was delivered. In 2007 Boldsworth began presenting his iTunes & Chortle hosted The Ray Peacock Podcast alongside fellow comedians Ed Gamble and former EastEnders actor Raji James. It was later succeeded by The Peacock and Gamble Podcast, which is also hosted by Chortle. Launched on 8 June 2009, The Peacock and Gamble Podcast was Boldsworth's second foray into the medium of podcasting.
He won the Welsh Unsigned Comedy Award in 2012. He made his first appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2015. He was first nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2017 for his show Body of Work. The following year he won the Comedians' Comedian award at the Chortle Awards.
In 2009, Abdi won the Your Comedy Star competition at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He was also nominated "Best Newcomer" in the Black Entertainment Comedy Awards, and came third in the Revels Chortle Student Comedy Awards. In 2011, Abdi came joint second in The Barbican Hackney Empire New Act of the Year competition.
After the turn of the millennium, these were joined by online publications, some of which specialised in the Fringe, some of which had a broader remit. These include Chortle (2000), Broadway Baby (2004), Fringe Review (2006), Fringe Guru (2007) and The Wee Review (2008 as TV Bomb). The latter two merged in 2019.
In 2012, the Cambridge Footlights celebrated 50 years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The 2012 show "Perfect Strangers" had a cast of five made up of outgoing president Phil Wang (Chortle Student Comedian of the Year 2010 and Comedy Central Funniest Student 2011), Pierre Novellie, Jason Forbes, George Potts and Emma Powell.
Olver started doing stand-up in the late 1990s and quickly expanded to compering. He won the Leicester Comedy Festival Best New Show award in 2011. He was nominated for Best Compere at the 2015 Chortle Awards. Olver performed in the live final of the BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2016 in Edinburgh.
Released every Monday, the show was a comedic insight in the two's lives and experiences. It can be found free on the iTunes Store, and also on Chortle. Kings Place in London hosted a large scale live show version of the show in December 2009, which featured Nick Mohammed in supporting roles.
After that company went bankrupt, Bennett continued the site, as he felt the comedy section of Time Out was not covering the breadth of comedy in the city in sufficient detail. However, the site was not financially viable for several years afterwards, so Bennett worked as a freelance for the Daily Mirror and Mail on Sunday to support himself. The Chortle Awards were launched in 2002 and in 2014 Chortle launched a comedy literary festival with talks by Monty Python's Terry Jones, and comedy actor Rebecca Front. Although initially operated by Bennett alone, the site grew into "a proper online publication" with a team of writers including Jay Richardson, Julia Chamberlain and Paul Fleckney, as well as guest contributions from individual comedians.
Coonan starred as Beryl Formby in the show Learn to Play the Ukulele in Under an Hour (How George Formby Saved My Life) at the Gilded Balloon as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2008. Chortle described it as 'a straight-down-the-line, gentle, sweet, completely enchanting show, tinged with melancholy'.
The Peacock and Gamble Podcast, while not broadly acknowledged by the mass media, has been praised by critics. Hazel Davis of The Guardian listed the podcast first in a run-down of the top 10 comedy podcasts, describing it as "35 minutes of pure gold." It was nominated for a Chortle award in 2011.
The UK tour of this show ran from October to December 2015, ending at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue. Due to the show's success, Acaster took Represent to the Soho Theatre for a week-long run in March 2016. In 2015 he won the Chortle awards for Best Breakthrough Act and Best Show for Recognise.
Daniel Simonsen performs stand-up Simonsen has won and been nominated for awards both in Norway and the UK including Chortle Best Newcomer, Best Comedian at Comedy Fight Club and the So You Think You're Funny competition. Since 2014, he has had a recurring role in Vic and Bob's BBC sitcom House of Fools as Erik.
He returned to the fringe in 2013 with his show 'Start'. Cahill received the Chortle Best Newcomer 2012 award and New Act of the Year (Hackney Empire Awards),Spoonfed "Editor's Comedy Choice" 25 September 2012 he is also a Latitude New Act of Year Finalist and BBC Radio 2's BBC New Comedy Act of the Year Finalist.
As a public speaker Birtles has spoken at conferences for a wide variety of companies and organisations.Jasmine Birtles City Speakers International, 2010 She performed a one-woman show – a humorous take on money management – at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2005,How To Be Rich Without Really Trying Chortle, 2005 called "How to be Rich Without Really Trying".
Erotic Laser Swordfight is a one-person show by Canadian comedian/performer Sean Cullen. Erotic Laser Swordfight won the 2002 Canadian Comedy Award for Best One-Person Show. Steve Bennett of Chortle wrote that Cullen was "on top form" with a combination of stand-up and musical numbers, working in audience suggestions in "absurd steams of consciousness".
Edward Stephenson Jamison Gamble (born 11 March 1986) is an English comedian, known for co-presenting The Peacock and Gamble Podcast and his regular appearances on Mock the Week. He studied at Durham University, where he began his comedy career performing with the Durham Revue, and was a finalist in the 2007 Chortle Student Comedy Awards.
A study in 2017 found a large gender imbalance in UK comedic panel shows, with 31% of the appearances. However, the same study also found marked improvement since 1989, when the statistic was 3%. Additionally, the UK industry website Chortle lists 269 female comedian as compared to 1,279 male comedians. Imbalance can also be seen at the level of the comedy club.
However, not all reviews were positive, with Brian Logan's review of a performance in Brighton stating that "little distinguishes these four youngsters from countless other all-male sketch troupes". The show was nominated for the 2007 if.comedy award (formerly the Perrier Comedy Award, now the Edinburgh Comedy Awards). They later won the 2008 Chortle Award for best sketch, variety or character act.
The podcast was shortlisted for an Internet Award in the 2017 Chortle Awards and nominated for Best Podcast in the 2017 Audio & Radio Industry Awards. In The Guardian's 2017 list of best podcasts, Kathryn Bromwich listed The Guilty Feminist as one of her six favourite podcasts in the 'sex, life and relationships' category. The podcast has been downloaded over 70 million times.
Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong is a game show on Channel 4, presented by Alan Carr. During the first series, voice-over commentary in between rounds on the scores is provided by Leslie Phillips.Carr lands C4 gameshow : News 2007 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide From Series 2, the announcer is Peter Dickson. A Series 1 compilation was later released onto DVD in 2008.
Baptiste started performing stand up comedy in 2012. Baptiste was the first black Briton to be nominated for the 2014 "Best Newcomer" Edinburgh Comedy Award. After the success of his debut stand up show Citizen Dane, he completed two sold out runs at London’s Soho Theatre (with additional dates added due to phenomenal demand). He was nominated for a Chortle award in 2015.
His act is peppered with slang words. In character as Lee Nelson, he briefly stood as a candidate in the 2013 South Shields by-election. He withdrew because the BBC would not have been able to broadcast his shows during the electoral campaign due to their code of impartiality. Brodkin also performs a selection of other characters,Chortle page for Simon Brodkin. Chortle.co.
Jones first performed stand-up comedy without preparation at a friend's comedy night. In 2017, Jones performed "Inspiration" at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The show was 35 minutes long and contained jokes about her visit to the 2016 Summer Paralympics, using disabled toilets, and commentary on the words "disabled" and "spastic". It received 3.5 stars in Chortle and three stars in The List.
Having started stand-up whilst in his final year of Law at the University of Edinburgh, a year which saw him make the final of both the Paramount Funniest Student and Chortle Student Comedian Of The Year competitions, Stirling is a regular on the UK comedy circuit. Having been dubbed one of Scotland's 'Hottest Newcomers' by The Scotsman after his performance in front of 750 people at the Glasgow Fruitmarket, he now gigs all over the UK including The Stand (Edinburgh and Glasgow), The Comedy Store (Manchester and London), Off The Kerb and various smaller clubs. In August 2009, Stirling performed in the final of the Chortle Student Comedian Of The Year at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, finishing runner-up to winner Joe Lycett. From October 2012, he toured with Russell Kane as a warm up act for Kane's Posturing Delivery.
Her career grew when in 2005 she opened the Manchester Pride festival. She also became a supporting act for other comedians such as Mick Miller and attracted positive reviews from other comedians such as Brendon Burns. In 2007, she became a finalist in the Chortle Student Comedy Awards. In 2008, Black started performing her show "Beth Becomes Her", which tells the story of Black's childhood.
They were a runner-up in the Golden Jester Awards. Their Edinburgh Fringe show received a second 5-star review, from fringe newspaper Three Weeks. They also played at respected Fringe shows the Chortle Fast Fringe and PBH and Some Comedians. 2013 saw Jollyboat on the lineup of Glastonbury, on the Bread and Roses stage, and at T in the Park in the Cabaret Tent.
In March 2018 the Playhouse won a Chortle Award, naming it the Best Comedy Venue in the East & Midlands. Norwich Playhouse is a firm favourite with many comedians, including Mark Watson, Tim Minchin, and Sara Pascoe. The Playhouse Bar is a popular bar attached to the theatre, known for Ceilingopolils (a cardboard cityscape attached to the ceiling of the bar). It recently celebrated its twentieth birthday.
In August 2015, Hagen took their debut hour show, Bubblewrap, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The show was favourably received, with 5-star reviews from ThreeWeeks, The Skinny, and the Daily Mirror. Bubblewrap also received 4 star reviews from Chortle, Time Out, Beyond the Joke, The Herald, The Sunday Times and Fest Magazine. The show won the Fosters sponsored Edinburgh Comedy Awards for Best Newcomer.
The venue has a 615 standing capacity and a 456 cabaret seated capacity which includes a balcony seating 168 people. Komedia Bath also operates a daytime arts café, which includes a studio venue, displays local artists' work and is host to Affordable Arts Fairs. In 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2015 Komedia Bath won The Chortle Award for Best Venue in the Wales and the West of England.
Reviewing the 2015 BBC New Comedy Awards for the comedy news, reviews and listings site Chortle, Steve Bennett stated that Cheng "deserved to win". On 22 August 2017, Cheng won "Joke of the Fringe". In September 2017 his Twitter thread insulting the national flag of every country in the world received national media coverage. His great-grandfather was academic and playwright Hsiung Shih-I.
Upstairs at Three and Ten twice won best venue in Brighton Fringe Awards, as well as 'best comedy venue in the south' at the Chortle Awards. She previously ran theatre venue 'The Marlborough' (2005 - 2007). Nicola is the Artistic Director of Otherplace Productions alongside co-directors Tom Arr- Jones and Joshua Carr. In 2012 Otherplace Productions created The Warren - a pop-up venue for Brighton Fringe.
The show was nominated for the Chortle Award for Best Full Length Show 2008. With Ward, White co- presented Dave Gorman's Sunday morning show on Absolute Radio, where White performed an improvised song, covering as many of the topics discussed on that week's show as possible, accompanied by a range instruments such as the accordion. His contract was not renewed by Absolute, and he left the show in April 2012.
Both the first and second series were shown on BBC Two in a series of 'Best of' specials. In March 2007, Tittybangbang was nominated for a Golden Rose international television award."Tittybangbang up for a Golden Rose" Chortle Retrieved 22 April 2008. The third and final series followed, with another new title sequence, and ran from 11 November to 16 December 2007, followed by the Christmas special, on 26 December.
North West Comedy Awards - the winners! Toby Hadoke also won 'Best Off-Stage Contribution' at the 2008 Chortle Awards.Time Out - Manchester's best comedy clubs Comedians whose began their careers at XS Malarkey include Jason Manford, Alan Carr, and Justin Moorhouse. The club has also featured appearances from Stewart Lee, Peter Kay, Mick Miller, Shazia Mirza, Chris Addison, Dave Spikey, Reginald D Hunter, Russell Howard, Jo Caulfield and Junior Simpson.
Martin began his comedy career in 2005. After reaching the finals of both Chortle Student Comedian of the Year and Amused Moose Laugh off competitions Martin went on to appear in a series of Edinburgh shows, including AAA at The Pleasance Courtyard. In 2011, Martin debuted his solo show Chris Martin. No. Not That One, which sold out its entire run and received a string of 4 star reviews.
Binns was nominated at the Edinburgh Festival for the Edinburgh Comedy Award 2007 for his hospital radio DJ character Ivan Brackenbury. He has been twice nominated for the Adelaide Fringe Comedy Award, in 2010 and 2011. He was voted a Foster's Comedy God in 2010. He also was nominated for a Chortle Award in 2011 and was also named in a list of their 50 Most Memorable Gigs of the decade.
Like the previous year, this show was performed in Pleasance One. The following year, the troupe took a year off from the Fringe - however, Matthew returned with a solo show called AdventureParty. In 2012, Pappy's returned to the Fringe with a new show, Last Show Ever. This show received critical acclaim, receiving five-star reviews from The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Scotsman, The List, Chortle, and many others.
Pattison was nominated for the best newcomer award at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival for her show Lady Muck. Previous to that Pattison was a finalist in the 2016 BBC New Comedy Award and the Chortle Student Comedy Awards of 2015. Having started doing comedy aged 18 after university Pattison supported Katherine Ryan on tour. Pattison has played at comedy festivals and toured in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
Predominantly a speed horse, he won races over sprint distances ranging from 1,000m to 1,200m. Since retiring to stud he became Australian Champion First Season Sire with his first crop of precocious and speedy two-year-olds.Rory's Jester Dies At Swettenham Stud Retrieved on 15 May 2009 His outstanding progeny included Racer's Edge, Chortle, Happy Giggle, Isca and Light Up The World. Rory's Jester was retired from stud duties in 2005.
Williams grew up in Leeds and read English at the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of Footlights. In 2009 he participated in the Cambridge heat of the Chortle Student Comedy Award. In 2010 Williams was the runner-up in the So You Think You're Funny competition at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2013 Williams appeared as the guest stand-up on Russell Howard's Good News.
A statue of Frank Sidebottom in Timperley by Colin Spofforth was unveiled on 20 October 2013. The plaque at the base of the statue reads: Sievey was posthumously recognised with the special judges' award at the 2011 Chortle Awards. A publicly funded statue of Frank by Colin Spofforth was unveiled on 20 October 2013 at 11:37 in Timperley village, the timing a reference to one of the character's catchphrases.
In 2010, Peart became a regular on the UK comedy circuit while studying for his degree. In 2012 he took part in the BBC New Comedy Award and Chortle Student Comedian of the Year Award. Peart replaced comic Helen Keeler for a gig in 2015 after she was dropped for "being a woman". Taking a stand against sexism in comedy, Peart and fellow comics refused to perform unless Keeler was reinstated.
In 1991, Lam played the Shitsu Tonka Newsreader in the ABC TV comedy series DAAS Kapital.DAAS Kapital – Faith, Australian Screen, National Film and Sound Archive, 1992. It was on the series that she met Doug Anthony All Stars member Richard Fidler who she would go on to marry in 1993 and have one son and one daughter with him.All Star secrets revealed, Chortle – The UK Comedy Guide, 13 April 2013.
At the award ceremony in London on 4 February 2015, Glasgow Girls was granted the award, but Inside No. 9 was highly commended. Inside No. 9 won the TV award at the 2015 Chortle Awards. The programme was longlisted for the Best Comedy prize in the 2015 TV Choice Awards. The programme won the 2016 comedy Rose d'Or, beating the Finnish Pyjama Party and the German Crime Scene Cleaner (Der Tatortreiniger).
Broderick in particular was described by Chortle as "an engaging frontman and an incredibly quick and skilful improviser".Hackney Empire New Act Final 2010 Review by Corry Shaw 31 January 2010 retrieved 5 february 2010 Abandoman were also winners of the 2010 Musical Comedy Awards. Rob returned to Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2010 with fellow Abandoman James Hancox. The duo performed their show Pic N Mixtape to a sell-out crowd.
Caton was born in Hammersmith, London and raised in the west London town of Greenford. He has a younger brother who is accredited to some of Caton's early jokes. He became interested in comedy while doing A Level drama at Richmond upon Thames College and continued the interest whilst an architecture student at Anglia Ruskin University. In 2005 he won the Chortle Student Comedian of the Year award.
Matt Rudge Biog Chortle: The UK Comedy Guide The second longest-running "Man with the Mic" was Seyi Rhodes, who worked on the show for just over two years. He took over from Rudge in 2003. Rhodes now works as a Foreign Affairs Reporter on the Channel 4 documentary series Unreported World. He was named as one of Channel 4's "next generation of presenting voices" in 2008.
"Fifteen Minutes" received five stars in The Arts Desk and four stars in iNews, Chortle, The Scotsman and Broadway World. It was listed by Evening Standard as one of the ten "best comedy shows to see" at the festival. Jones performed at the Greenwich Comedy Festival in 2018. In 2019, Jones performed at Spectacular, a one-off event for Comic Relief, and appeared at the 2019 Women of the World Festival.
He made his first appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2000 with his show, "How To Avoid Huge Ships". His 2003 Edinburgh show, "Making Fish Laugh" was nominated for a Perrier newcomer award. In 2004 he won a Chortle Award for Best Breakthrough Act. His shows with Tim Key have been "Every Body Talks" and "When in Rome", both of which featured unusually extensive use of Microsoft PowerPoint for a comic act.
In February 2007, the group was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Chortle Awards. In August 2007, the team returned to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their second show, which received critical acclaim. It was performed at Just The Tonic, located in C Soco urban garden, Cowgate. Several top comedy critics praised it, with Dominic Maxwell describing the show as "extraordinarily fresh" and Bruce Dessau praising their "instinctive rapport" and "the general air of merriment".
Jay Shareef (born 1982) is an award-winning British stand-up comedian, broadcaster, podcaster and social commentator, also known by the stage name Jay Islaam. Shareef has written for The Guardian, Huffington Post, Birmingham Mail, Chortle, Beyond The Joke and Gigglebeats. He presents weekly arts and culture shows on Radio Peterborough and Switch Radio, and has also appeared on BBC Radio London, BBC Radio Nottingham, BBC Radio WM and BBC Asian Network.
In 2004 Cochrane's first Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, My Favourite Words in My Best Stories, was nominated for the Best Newcomer award at the Perrier Awards. He went on to be nominated for "Best Compère" and "Best Breakthrough Act" at the 2005 Chortle Awards. He returned to the Edinburgh Fringe during the same year with a new solo show. Comedy With Sad Bits, and in 2006 with Introducing an Introduction to Alun Cochrane's Imagination.
Nathan Cassidy - photo: Andy Hollingworth Nathan Cassidy is a British comedian and podcaster. He was nominated for Best Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival 2020 for his show 'Observational'.British Comedy Guide (website) This show was widely reported in the press as the only live show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2020. Chortle (website) The show was given four stars by The Times which reviewed it as 'The best show at the Fringe.
In 2020 his show 'Roses From Joe' at the Buxton Fringe was named in several online publications as the 'first solo UK comedy show after lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic'. Chortle - Could outdoor comedy gigs be back? In an interview with the British Comedy Guide Cassidy said that the show is about 'putting love out into the world, not to anyone in particular', like the public applauding the NHS during lockdown.
Corcoran and Jones won an Editor's Choice Award at Brighton Fringe, a Best Comedy Award at Adelaide Fringe, and an Entertainmentwise Award at Edinburgh Festival Fringe. They were runners-up in the final of Hackney Empire New Act of the Year, finalists in the Musical Comedy Awards, and nominees for a Chortle Award (Best Music or Variety Act), Loaded LAFTA Award (Best Newcomer), two Fringe World Awards, and four London Cabaret Awards.
Moore was a finalist in the 2011 Chortle Student Comedian of the Year Award whilst studying English Literature at the University of Sheffield. After graduating, he worked as a newsreader on a number of radio stations, whilst performing stand-up. Since September 2017 he has appeared as a panelist on the BBC2 panel show Mock the Week. In October 2017 he joined the Absolute Radio breakfast show as a newsreader and "sidekick".
Kae Kurd (born Korang Abdulla) is a British-Kurdish stand up comedian who has been nominated for awards by the Royal Television Society in 2017 and the Chortle Awards in 2016. He performed his show Kurd Your Enthusiasm at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017. He has featured as a guest on the BBC Asian Network and has written for iNews and TotalPolitics. He is the UK's only professional standup comedian from a Kurdish background.
Retrieved 21 January 2016. a micro-history of comedy troupe Cluub Zarathustra,You Are Nothing by Robert Wringham: book review by Steve Bennett Chortle. 29 May 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2016. whose members included Stewart Lee, Simon Munnery, Kevin Eldon, Julian Barratt, Graham Linehan, Sally Phillips and Johnny Vegas.Robert Wringham - You Are Nothing The List. 25 June 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2016.Cluub Zarathustra: where British comedy was reborn Telegraph. 5 July 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
The cast is then reformed to match the show with Paul playing the cat and Greg Chip (Dean Whatton) the original cat playing Dick. Gina dumps Tony to be on her own after coming back from the airport after their flights were cancelled as the toilet company went bust. At the end, Lewis John Bishop brings Panto! to ITV, from Chortle, The UK Comedy Guide; retrieved 29 December 2012 plays football with Paul after the show was a success.
In 2016, Shandur co-authored the book Off The Mic: The World's Best Stand Up Comedians Get Serious About Comedy with Deborah Frances-White which came out on Bloomsbury Publishing. The book, about the mechanics of stand-up comedy, features new interviews with 42 comedians, including Eddie Izzard, Phill Jupitus, Sarah Millican, Jim Jefferies, Lewis Black and Marc Maron. The Independent called it "Fascinating – part textbook, part therapist’s notebook." In December 2016, it was nominated for a Chortle Award.
Jones performed his comedy act on British television for the first time in Live from the BBC, which was broadcast on BBC Two in March 2016. In 2016 he was nominated for "breakthrough act" and "music and variety award" in the Chortle Awards. However, these categories were won by Joseph Morpurgo and Pippa Evans, respectively. Jones plays Shakespearean actor William Kempe in the sitcom Upstart Crow, which was broadcast on BBC Two beginning in May 2016.
It was also nominated for a Malcolm Hardee Award for Innovation and a Chortle Award for Innovation. He is also a successful actor, starring opposite Daniel Mays in the BAFTA-nominated BBC2 single drama Against the Law. Other key acting credits include lead roles in BBC3's Clique, Sky Arts’ One Normal Night and E4's Tripped. He is currently filming alongside Stephen Graham and Daniel Mays in Sky One's new six-part comedy series Code 404.
Time Out review for the Rat Pack stand-up comedy It played at the Leicester Square Theatre from 2014–2015 and currently has a weekly Friday night residence at the Camden Comedy Club in London.Camden Comedy Club Listings Nathan Cassidy also presents the ongoing weekly podcast Psycomedy about the Psychology of stand-up comedy.Chortle (website) article on Psycomedy Guests have included Marcus Brigstocke, Shazia Mirza, Nick Helm and Stephen Bailey. Chortle (website) article - Stephen Bailey on Psycomedy.
She performed Tyrannosaurus Lexx at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2016 and was a finalist at the 2016 Amused Moose Comedy Award. Lexx received a level of notoriety in 2016 when her on stage putdowns to a sexist heckler went viral. Lexx was nominated for Best Compere at the 2016 and 2017 Chortle Awards. Her 2018 Edinburgh show was called Trying and discussed her attempts at starting a family and the effects this had on her mental health.
Goodbear's debut fringe show was at the 2015 Fringe. Since then, they have received critical acclaim from The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Scotsman, Chortle, and many more. Their live shows are directed by George Chilcott, artistic director of Dugout Theatre, and accompanied by an original score by Max Perryment. In 2019, their show Dougal was nominated for 'Best Comedy Show' at the Dave Edinburgh Comedy Awards, presented by Rose Matafeo and Stephen Fry.
Russell Joseph Howard (born 23 March 1980) is an English comedian, television presenter, radio presenter and actor, best known for his TV shows Russell Howard's Good News and The Russell Howard Hour and his appearances on the topical panel TV show Mock the Week. He won "Best Compère" at the 2006 Chortle Awards and was nominated for an if.comedy award for his 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. Howard cited comedians Lee Evans, Richard Pryor and Frank Skinner as influences.
Ready for This? is the third solo comedy album released by the Australian musical comedian Tim Minchin. It was recorded during Minchin's show at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London during December 2008. The album has received high praise from reviewers with Chortle describing part of the epic beat poem Storm as "the most succinct, unarguable rejoinder to 'alternative medicine' that you will find anywhere" and Rave magazine describing the chorus of "Prejudice" as a "winning refrain".
Laura Francesca "Lulu" Popplewell (born 15 January 1991) is an English comedian and actress. She was a finalist in the Leicester Square New Comedian Of the Year Award and the Chortle Student Comedy Award 2018. She is the daughter of the High Court judge Andrew Popplewell and Dr. Debra Lomas, a dermatologist. She is the younger sister of actress Anna Popplewell and the older sister of Freddie Popplewell, the niece of former cricketer Nigel Popplewell and the granddaughter of retired judge Oliver Popplewell.
Brett Vincent is a comedy manager, agent and promoter in the UK. He is currently the agent for Australian comedian Jim Jeffries, Glenn Wool, Pete Johansson & Carl Donnelly. He also invented a revolutionary marketing tool for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006, the world's first ever multi-media flyer. He was nominated for a Chortle Award for 'Best Offstage Contribution in Comedy' in 2007. He won 'Best Promoter' at the Fringe Report Awards in 2008 He is also a Silent Disco DJ.
Gigs "Cariad Lloyd – Gigs" In 2014 she performed at the Edinburgh Fringe with Louise Ford in Cariad and Louise's Character Hour. Lloyd is a member of the improvisational comedy group Austentatious. In 2014 the show won the Chortle Award for Best Character, Improv or Sketch Act, and two DVDs of one of their live shows have been released by Go Faster Stripe in 2015 and 2018. Other members of the group include Rachel Parris, Amy Cooke-Hodgson and Joseph Morpurgo.
Chortle comedy guide described it as "most definitely a show of two halves: the superlative Alan Partridge plus a collection of characters that are not only less successful, but woefully less funny". As the tour progressed and the problems were ironed out, reviews were very positive. Dominic Maxwell of The Times described the show as "twice as entertaining as most other comedy shows this year". Brian Logan of The Guardian awarded it four stars and described it as "shamelessly funny".
In 2006, Richardson appeared in The Comedy Zone at the Edinburgh Festival. He also completed a 60-date British and Irish tour with Alan Carr, and made an appearance on Paramount's The Comedy Store. In 2007, Spatula Pad (Richardson's first solo show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe) earned him a Best Newcomer nomination at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Richardson won the 2008 Chortle Award for Best Breakthrough Act, and performed Dogmatic (his second solo show) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
With fellow Salopians Richard Ingrams and Willie Rushton he founded Private Eye in 1961, and was its first editor. He was ousted by Ingrams in 1963. Returning in 1965, he remained a permanent member of the magazine's collaborative joke-writing team thereafter (with Ingrams, Barry Fantoni and current editor Ian Hislop) till his death.Christopher Booker, Private Eye’s first editor, dies at 81 Published by Chortle and retrieved on 12 July 2019 Booker began writing jazz reviews for The Daily Telegraph while at university.
The book was a bestseller in The Sunday Times and chosen by the newspaper as a 2017 Humour Book of the Year. The List included the book in an article titled "Best books by comedians in 2017". The book was nominated for a 2018 Chortle Award in the Book category. Matt Rudd of The Sunday Times describes the book as "a charming and nostalgic memoir", noting that it is unusual for being a comedian autobiography with a non-depressing tone.
In 2017, Beaumont presented the BBC Two documentary Welcome to Hull – City of Culture 2017. Beaumont is also the narrator in the 2018 BBC documentary Hull's Headscarf Heroes about Lillian Bilocca and the 1968 Triple Trawler Disaster. Beaumont said that the story moved her especially because her grandparents and their families were "born and bred in the fishing community on [Hull's] Hessle Road." In 2013, Beaumont won the Chortle Award for Best Newcomer and appeared on BBC Three's Live at the Electric.
Chortle - Olaf Falafel Falafel secured a three-book contract with HarperCollins in 2016, after asking for a publisher to approach him in a tweet.Chortle - Comic Lands a Book Deal After Asking for one on Twitter In 2019 Falafel made headlines by winning the Best Joke of the Edinburgh Fringe.BBC News - Vegetable joke is funniest gag at the Edinburgh Fringe He took the title with the gag: "I keep randomly shouting out 'Broccoli' and 'Cauliflower' - I think I might have florets".
According to Dave, the first series reached 3.7 million viewers. The show has been described as "a twist on soapy courtroom programmes" and compared to Judge Rinder, Judge Judy and The Jeremy Kyle Show. Bruce Dessau of Beyond the Joke writes in a positive review that the show is "interesting set- up", Ranganathan is "pretty damn funny" and Davis is "such a big personality, he almost upstages Ranganathan". Steve Bennett of Chortle gives the show three out of five stars.
It sold in excess of 125,000 tickets, including three sell- out shows at the Hammersmith Apollo as well as several large arenas such as Wembley Arena and Manchester's MEN Arena. The DVD of this tour was released on 9 November 2009 and features a recording of the show from the Brighton Dome. Howard was named "Best Theatre Show" at the 2009 Chortle Comedy Awards. Howard appeared in UK dates in December 2009 for his "Big Rooms and Belly Laughs" tour.
In May 2005 he completed the Amused Moose stand up comedy course run by fellow comedian Logan Murray, then began performing in November 2005. The day after he finished the course, Brown started plans to set up the now cult weekly Outside the Box Comedy Club at the Fighting Cocks pub in Kingston. Three months after the club began, it was nominated and won the prestigious Best Comedy Club Award from the renowned website, Chortle. Two years on and it's reached cult status among big name comedians.
In an interview with Chortle, actor Eddie Izzard finished co-writing his first script with Celyn Jones with a setting of the Second World War, taking place in Bexhill-on-Sea where Izzard grew up. Izzard's former girlfriend, Sarah Townsend was originally set to direct the film following previous collaborations on documentaries with Izzard. However, it was announced that the director would be Andy Goddard, who is known for his work on Downton Abbey. The same day, Judi Dench was cast as the headmistress.
Christie appeared in various theatre productions and adverts before she began her stand-up career in 2004. Her debut BBC Radio 4 series, Bridget Christie Minds the Gap, was broadcast in April 2013. A second series was broadcast in January 2015 followed by a third, Bridget Christie's Utopia, in January 2018. The three series were very well received and won several radio awards including Best Radio at the 2014 Chortle Awards, the 2014 Rose D'Or International Broadcasting Award and a nomination for a Radio Academy Award 2014.
He was born in England in Pontefract, but left at age 6 and grew up in Saudi Arabia and the US. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003, he started doing stand-up comedy in New York City. He moved to London in 2004, and won the Jongleurs New Act Competition in 2005, the Amused Moose Comedy Awards in 2006, and was nominated for Best Newcomer in the 2007 British Chortle Awards. He stopped performing stand-up in 2010.
In 2011 Myers returned to The Comedy Store in London to perform a one night only comeback of his role with The Comedy Store Players. The UK comedy website Chortle praised his performance. Myers' 2013 directorial debut, Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, was selected to be screened in the Gala Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2017, Myers began hosting a reprised version of The Gong Show in heavy makeup as a fictional British host known as Tommy Maitland.
In 2019, Acaster won the Chortle Award for Best Show with Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999. Perfect Sound Whatever is Acaster's second book, about an obsessive challenge that he undertook in 2017 to collect as much music released in 2016 as possible. It was published by Headline Publishing Group in August 2019. In 2019, Acaster won the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award, making him the first UK comedian to do so in nine years. Acaster’s podcast with BBC Sounds, James Acaster’s Perfect Sounds, started in April 2020.
James William Acaster (; born 9 January 1985) is an English comedian originally from Kettering, Northamptonshire. He has performed for several consecutive years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has been nominated for Best Show five times. He won the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award for Most Outstanding Show in 2019 with Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999, and has won four Chortle awards. Acaster has appeared on several panel shows, including Mock the Week, Taskmaster, 8 out of 10 Cats, and Would I Lie to You?.
Sherine wrote, performed and co-produced all the tracks.The Lovely Electric Guardian article 20 October 2014 The album received good reviews, and an average of 4.7 stars out of 5 on Amazon.Music News album review 18 October 2014 In 2016, Sherine went back to the stand-up circuit. Her song Love Song for Jeremy Corbyn was featured in the London Evening StandardEvening Standard Londoners’ Diary 19 February 2016 Her weekly email Adventures of a Stand-Up Comic is serialised on the UK’s leading comedy website, Chortle.
Nazeem’s Netflix special ‘Nazeem Hussain: Public Frenemy’, filmed in Montreal at the Just For Laughs Festival, started streaming globally in 2019, introducing Nazeem to many new fans, and receiving critical acclaim. Funny Or Die and Chortle both listed Nazeem’s special amongst their favourites. Nazeem’s prime time TV comedy series Orange Is the New Brown aired on Channel 7 in late 2018 to overwhelmingly positive reviews. Nazeem created and starred in the sketch series, working alongside Claudia Karvan, Tim Minchin, Urzila Carlson and Kat Stewart.
In 2010, it moved once again to The Queen of Hearts (Now 256 Wilmslow Road), before moving to Platt Chapel 186 Wilmslow Road in 2011. During 2013, XS Malarkey was resident at the now defunct Jabez Clegg Beer Hall. In January 2014, XS Malarkey moved to the Pub/Zoo on Grosvenor Street, which was rebranded as the Bread Shed behind the Flour and Flagon in August 2017. The club has won Best Comedy Club (North) nine times at the Chortle Awards, and Best Comedy Club twice at the North West Comedy Awards.
However, his actions led the website to begin to attribute authorship of the jokes appearing on its site. In 2003, Delaney toured the UK supporting Jerry Sadowitz, performing at venues including Manchester University and Shepherd's Bush Empire, London. His first Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Purist, won generally positive reviews, including four stars from comedy website Chortle, and The Independent newspaper. Delaney had two of his gags included in the top ten of the third annual Dave Award for the Funniest Joke of the Fringe, the only comedian to do so.
Steve Bennett of Chortle praises that the book's humour about embarrassment is made relatable and "universally hilarious" through its "painfully funny" writing style. Matt Forrest of The Reviews Hub reviews a book tour performance in which Acaster read highlights from his book and conducted Q&A; sessions. Rating it five stars out of five, Forrest commends Acaster as a "fantastic, engaging storyteller" and praises his "surreal, and absurd sense of humour". However, Forrest notes that hecklers and audience distractions left a "bitter taste", despite Acaster's "quick-witted and versatile" attempts to handle these situations.
Jamali Maddix is an English stand-up comedian. His mother is British-Greek and his father is Jamaican.Tim Lewis, Jamali Maddix: I saw Bill Hicks and thought, there’s someone like me The Observer 27 November 2016 Maddix is notable for winning the Chortle Student Comedian of the Year award in 2014, and hosts a documentary on extremism titled Hate Thy Neighbor (2016) in partnership with Vice, wherein he interviews extremists from around the world to understand how they think. In some episodes he has been physically confronted by the people he has interviewed.
The Leicester Square Theatre Podcast has won the Internet Award at the 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2018 Chortle Awards, and was the only non-BBC programme to be nominated for the comedy award at the 2013 Sony Radio Awards. The show won a bronze award in the category, becoming the first internet-only award winner in this section. Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood has also heralded the Leicester Square Theatre Podcast citing it as one of his cultural highlights in The Guardian. In Herring's interview with Stephen Fry, Fry revealed that he had attempted to commit suicide.
In a three-star review, Steve Bennett of Chortle called Chaudhry a "scene-stealer". On 24 December 2018, Chaudhry starred alongside Stephen Merchant in the BBC One television film Click & Collect, with a runtime of 53 minutes. The pair play Dev and Andrew, respectively, who travel on a road trip on Christmas Eve to buy Andrew's daughter a Christmas present. Chaudhry took inspiration for Dev from a former neighbour who recognised him from the television and waved at Chaudhry when he was in the kitchen, which he could see from his living room window.
In a review for Chortle Steve Bennett wrote: "If you're a curious person too, your interest will definitely be piqued by the info imparted (now my internet search history includes 'didgeridoo in space' and 'sticky google car') and in a most entertaining way. Though quite what the weird handover to Jane Hill in the BBC newsroom just to call Schreiber 'Bernard' was all about defies explanation." On Episode 130 of No Such Thing as a Fish it was announced that Series 2 would begin on 12 October 2016 at 11:15pm on BBC2.
Steve Bennett reviewing for Chortle in 2000 said his character comedy, including Upper Class Rapper and Ludwig the Bavarian, was a string of one-liners. The show had "inspired gags", but was "sadly patchy". Bennett's review three years later, calling his work "pleasant enough" but lacking an edge, noted he had moved on from being a character comic and decided to instead base his comedy on real life. In 2001, he took part in an attempt to get into the Guinness Book of Records at Edinburgh as one of 45 comics onstage in 45 minutes.
Performing at the Comic Strip Live alongside other Australian comedians Joel Creasey and Khaled Kalafalla, the show was recommended by Time Out magazine. His next stand-up show, GENeration ComedY, debuted in 2014. Kolhatkar first performed the solo show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in the Trades Hall before taking it to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Performing at the Assembly Hall, the show received poor reviews, including three two-star ratings by Chortle, WOW247 and The List and two three-star ratings by Fresh Air and Broadway Baby.
In 2003, Ó Briain was nominated at the Chortle Comedy Awards for Live Comedy in the categories Best Compère and Best Headline Act (which he would go on to win). In 2004, he won the Best Headliner award again, as well as being nominated for Best Full-length Show. Since 2005, he has been the host of the comedy panel show Mock the Week on BBC Two, a blend between Have I Got News for You and Whose Line Is It Anyway? The show reached its 200th episode during its 19th series in 2019.
After initial performances in London in 2011, the original cast performed the show at the 2012 Free Fringe, receiving positive reviews and sell-out crowds. Following this success they continued to perform across the UK, adding Roberts and Gittins to the cast. They began a regular monthly show in London, initially at the Leicester Square Theatre and have returned to the Edinburgh Fringe annually, selling out the show every year from 2014 to 2018. In 2014 the show won the Chortle Award for Best Character, Improv or Sketch Act.
Born in Tokyo, Graham attended day and boarding schools in Australia and the UK, including Eton College, as his family moved around for his father's work. He was the youngest ever winner of So You Think You're Funny in 2009 and was subsequently signed by the biggest stand up talent agency in the UK, Off The Kerb. He was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2010 Chortle Awards. In 2019 he was nominated at Edinburgh Festival for the Dave Edinburgh Comedy Awards for Best Show for his show entitled The Game Of Life.
Connell grew up in Springburn in Glasgow. He started performing stand up gigs whilst juggling a full-time job at a supermarket until fellow comedian Kevin Bridges convinced him to quit and do comedy full time. Since then, Connell has gone on to host many solo shows across the UK including an appearance at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.Darren Connell: Trolleywood, The List, 12 August 2016 Writing about his show No Filter, Jay Richardson of Chortle wrote: In 2019, his show, Abandon All Hope played to a sell out audience at the 2019 edition of the Glasgow Comedy Festival.
Since September 2015, Buxton has produced The Adam Buxton Podcast, in which he talks to other people, usually comedians. The first series went out weekly in 2015 before a Christmas episode with Joe Cornish, in the style of their BBC Radio 6 show. Guests have included collaborators Louis Theroux, Joe Cornish and Charlie Brooker, as well as other public figures such as Jon Ronson, Caitlin Moran, Michael Palin and Brian Eno. It has won a number of awards including Best Online Comedy Talk Show at the Online Radio Awards, Podcast Champion at the British Podcast Awards, and the Internet Award from Chortle.
Up the Creek comedy club Up the Creek is a comedy club on Creek Road in Greenwich, London. The club was founded in 1991 by Malcolm Hardee, who was a regular master of ceremonies. In an upstairs bar at the club was a mural commissioned by Hardee as a parody of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, with Hardee as Christ and other comedians including Jo Brand and Julian Clary as the Twelve Apostles, with Ben Elton as Judas Iscariot. Joe Lycett performing at Up the Creek The venue won the inaugural Chortle Award for Best Large Venue, in 2002.
Prior to starting Chortle, Bennett, who graduated from Oxford University, had been working as a local newspaper editor for the Informer group of free newspapers in Surrey and West London. He started the site after the newspaper group expressed a lack of interest in running a website. After considering his areas of interest, he decided to start a comedy site, since IMDb and Empire already covered the market for film, and there were numerous music websites available. The site received some early support from investors during the dot com boom which led to Bennett working from offices in Brick Lane, London.
Willan is the narrator of Channel 4’s The Circle and joined the cast of Still Open All Hours (BBC One) and Click & Collect (BBC One). She played Carol in Series 4 of sketch show Class Dismissed (CBBC) and has performed comedy on Live from The Comedy Store (Comedy Central) As Yet Untitled (Dave) and The Last Leg Correspondents (C4). She has also been nominated as a Chortle Best Newcomer, honoured on the BBC New Talent Hot List and became the first recipient of the BBC’s Caroline Aherne Comedy Bursary. She was a South Bank Sky Arts Award Best Breakthrough Nominee in 2018.
Cohen is a prolific writer for television and radio as well as contributing columns to NME, Chortle and The Huffington Post.The Huffington Post "Dave Cohen's Page" 2012. He has written for BBC Radio 4 including The Best of British, Dead Ringers which won a Sony Gold Award 2001, The Sunday Format, The News Quiz and 15 Minute MusicalComedy Guide "15 Minute Musical" which he was also a co-creator and won the 2009 Writer's Guild Best Radio Comedy Show, to name a few. He also wrote for BBC Radio 5's The Treatment and They Came From Nowhere.
Amy Reiter of The Los Angeles Times liked the episode and described it as "the kind that makes you belly-laugh and chortle and snicker despite your better judgment". The introduction of Ricky Martin as David Martinez was welcomed by most reviewers. Futterman wrote that "Ricky Martin carried on the Gwyneth Paltrow tradition of pretty great guest teacher cameos", and TVLine Michael Slezak said that the episode was good "at least whenever Ricky Martin appeared on screen". VanDerWerff called him "fun and infectious", and Kate Stanhope of TV Guide said he "showed himself to be a guest star with mucho potential".
He has appeared regularly on Have I Got News For You, on Room 101, Mock the Week, the Graham Norton Show, and made several appearances on Question Time. Mark Steel's in Town has won a Sony Award, Writers' Guild Award, Chortle Awards and British Comedy Guide Awards. In 2014 he won the British Press Award for Broadsheet Columnist, for his column in The Independent. He has written and performed several radio and television series for the BBC, and written several books including Reasons to Be Cheerful, Vive Le Revolution, an account of the French Revolution and It's Not a Runner Bean.
Philip Brandes of Los Angeles Times reviews the show positively, praising Gorman's "impeccable" timing and ability to link the "disparate narrative threads" seamlessly. Brandes describes the show as "a richly varied, delightful and at times surprisingly touching human tapestry". A positive review in The Sydney Morning Herald writes that the show has "increasing hilarity, sometimes verging on the hysterical" and notes that Gorman's "brief explosion of temper timed perfectly mid-show" is "effective because there is more than a kernel of truth". In a positive review, Steve Bennett of Chortle describes the plot as "full of jaw- dropping real-life twists".
Edwards won the Perrier award (Best Newcomer) at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a member of the sketch trio the Consultants, alongside Neil Edmond and James Rawlings. They went on to write and record four series for BBC Radio 4. As booze-sodden children's entertainer Jeremy Lion he performed four acclaimed live shows at the Edinburgh Festival and Melbourne Comedy Festival, and was nominated four years running for the Chortle Awards as best character act, winning in 2006 and 2004. He was nominated for the Perrier Award in 2005 and 2006 he had a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival with his one-man musical show Unaccompanied As I Am.
The exposure brought by these awards marked a "turning point" in Bea's career and she began to appear as a regular guest on panel shows including QI and Insert Name Here. Bea and Yasmine Akram co-wrote and co-hosted the BBC Radio 4 comedy folklore series Micks and Legends (2012, 2015); it was nominated for a Chortle Award in 2013. Bea won the 2014 British Comedy Award for Best Female TV Comic and returned to Edinburgh in 2015 with the live show Plan Bea. In 2016, she became a team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats and was a cast member on Taskmaster in 2017.
She felt that the episode was disappointing and wasted the talent of the actors, and that the concept was "the sort of idea you can imagine two students coming up with after the sixth pint... and then feeling slightly embarrassed about it when they wake up the next morning". She summed up the episode by saying that it was neither funny nor clever, and "is so utterly, irredeemably, naffly silly that it ends up being incredibly irritating and nothing else". An interview with Shearsmith and Pemberton was published on British comedy website Chortle.co.uk after Inside No.9 won the Chortle Award for best TV show.
Hoggart initially established herself with the "insufferably cute" character Pattie BrewsterRichardson, Jay (4 November 2016). "Amy Hoggart lands role on American TV". Chortle. on the London standup comedy scene, which she describes as "brilliant" and "a great community". Hoggart's first major TV role outside of standup comedy was Almost Royal, a faux-reality show on BBC America, in which Hoggart portrays a low- ranking heir to the British throne, Poppy Carlton, 51st in line to the British throne, and her brother, Georgie (Ed Gamble), as they tour the United States speaking to unsuspecting members of the public, in a style similar to the character Borat.
In 2005, Davies played a caricature of cricketer W. G. Grace in a series of adverts for Channel 4's television coverage of The Ashes. In 2007, Davies was nominated three times in the Chortle Awards, in the categories "Breakthrough Act" (for his solo stand-up act), "Best Sketch, Variety or Character Act", and "Best Full-Length Show" (both as part of sketch team We Are Klang). In 2010, Davies' first solo stand-up show Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog was nominated for the Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Awards at the Edinburgh Festival. The show was subsequently taken on his first ever tour the following autumn.
Isy Suttie, writing in The Guardian newspaper,The Guardian Guardian.co.uk – Edinburgh Festival 2011, Isy Suttie: My Edinburgh 8 January 2012 described the show as "weird, intimate and wonderful" while What's On Stage observed "Wilfredo sees himself as a kind of Messiah figure, born to sing, write poetry, and seduce an endless succession of women." What's On Stage Edinburgh Reviews What's on Stage – Edinburgh Festival 2011, Wilfredo 8 January 2012 The British comedy industry website Chortle noted the character as "sometimes cantankerous, often lecherous and almost certainly consumptive... coughing and burping his way through the set, at one point hacking up phlegm like a horse chewing a toffee" while the critic at ThreeWeeks lauded Wilfredo as both "disgusting and arousing".
This slot was previously hosted by Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw. Also in 2010, he presented the 50 Most Shocking Moments in 2010 World Cup. Deacon won the Chortle Student Comedian Of The Year award in 2007, appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2008 as part of the 'Comedy Zone' and made his Edinburgh solo debut at the 2009 Fringe Festival with his show Indecisive.Donaldson, Brian (2011) "Why comedian Tom Deacon doesn't want you to laugh at his comedy", The List, 9 February 2011, retrieved 2011-05-01Brady, Fern (2009) "Tom Deacon", Fest, 5 August 2009, retrieved 2011-05-01 He returned to the festival in 2011 with solo show, Can I Be Honest?.
Richard Gadd (born 11 May 1989 in Wormit, Fife) is a Scottish writer, actor and comedian. His show Monkey See Monkey Do won the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Comedy Show at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe where it was also nominated for a Total Theatre Award for Innovation. Later that year, he won a Chortle Comedian's Comedian Award and was nominated for an Off West End Theatre Award for Best Performer. The show was subsequently broadcast on Comedy Central and had several sell-Out runs at London's Soho Theatre, toured the UK and Europe, and had a run at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, where it was nominated for the 2017 Barry Award.
Their first full-length show, School of Pop (2009), a series of "educational" lessons developed during their monthly residency at Leicester Square Theatre, was described as "the undisputed hit of the Edinburgh Fringe," garnering thirteen five-star reviews from publications such as Chortle, Edinburgh Evening News, The Herald, The Mail on Sunday, and Time Out. Their send-up of Noël Coward and Lily Allen was particularly praised. Kate Nash, whose song "Foundations" they combined with Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights", attended one of their performances. A sequel entitled The College Years (2010), based around a central thesis of "collision theory," premièred at Latitude Festival, and placed second (out of 2453 productions) on Edinburgh Festival Guide's list of top-rated shows.
Smith started his career in stand-up comedy, winning awards including Chortle Best Headliner 2005 and Time Out Comedy 2004. One critic called him 'the Hugh Grant of comedy', and he appeared in The 11 O'Clock Show with Sacha Baron Cohen and Ricky Gervais as the character 'Posh Boy'. He took solo shows to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival every year from 2003 to 2006: "Will Smith Is Much Obliged", "Misplaced Childhood" (inspired by his love of the rock band Marillion and their 1985 album of the same name), "Ten Arguments I Should Have Won", and "How To Be Cool". Smith supported Gervais on his record-breaking sell-out 2007 "Fame" tour, and supported Ardal O'Hanlon and Johnny Vegas on national tours.
Sporting facilities are spread across two main sites: the sports centre, which contains several multi-purpose sports halls, a fitness suite, squash courts and climbing wall, and the Sports Pavilion site, with a variety of indoor and outdoor sports pitches and training facilities, including 3G and astroturf. The Gulbenkian arts complex includes a theatre and cinema, as well as a small stage which hosts monthly comedy nights as well as occasional shows such as Jazz at Five and The Chortle Student Comedy Awards. The adjacent Colyer-Fergusson Building, which opened in 2013, includes an adaptable format concert/rehearsal hall with retractable seating and variable acoustics and practice rooms. The Gulbenkian Theatre seats 340 and presents student, professional and amateur shows throughout the year.
Steve Bennett of Chortle gave a positive review of the Canterbury show, stating that Millican's "normality is key to her appeal [which allows] her audience see themselves reflected in her". He concluded by saying that Millican "excels" in her writing, "with plenty of acidic punchlines [within the show] to win over a crowd". Elle May Rice of The Liverpool Echo gave the Liverpool show three out of five stars and a mixed review, saying that it was "unashamedly filthy [and] shocking" yet criticised that "the show started shakily". However, Clive Davis of The Times gave the show a negative review, stating that "you [...] have to be a die-hard fan to enjoy her latest show, which rambles around familiar themes" and gave two out of five stars.
Lexx won the comedians choice award at the 2019 Chortle Awards. Television appearances have included Roast Battle, Hypothetical (TV series), Live at the Apollo (TV series) show on BBC 2. Lexx landed a book deal after a series of tweets during the lockdown of the coronavirus pandemic imagining life with Liverpool F.C. manager Jurgen Klopp went viral and amassed over 5.6 million views. The book deal is designed to expand the idea into a book, called Klopp Actually (Imaginary) Life with Football’s Most Sensible Heartthrob to be released in autumn 2020. The company, Two Roads, also bought the rights to a second story called Pivot a novel about an amateur women’s netball team, which they aim to release in 2022.
At that statement, the natives chortle with delight at what Puff explains is a self-deceptive lie and makes her realize that she had nothing to do with her parents' break-up and they still love her. At this liberating truth, Puff and Sandy are freed, bring the walls of the cavern down with their celebratory song and return to the real world. At that, Puff prepares to leave, but not before suggesting to Sandy that she can see him again in spirit by using her vibrant imagination in more constructive ways like writing fiction. Sandy immediately takes that advice after reconciling with her parents while exonerating her dog and begins her first story, which Puff confidently notes is sure to be a classic.
Czajkowski gave the show a mostly positive review in The Guardian, opining that Burnham is "exceptionally good at misdirection" and used a "mix of music, wit and experimental comedy" which created "a freshness rarely seen on stage", but critiquing some of his "raunchier material" and describing the show as "a little stuck". Bennett of Chortle calls Burnham "intensively creative", with an ability to "surprise with a crafty turn of phrase", and believes the show to be an "hour of happiness". McCarthy of Decider says that Burnham displays a "shrewd knowledge of those funnymen and women who have hit the stages before him, as well as a propensity for deconstructing the very nature of entertainment, and the relationship between performer and audience, between star and fans".
Ward worked as an economic researcher at London's South Korean Embassy before she became a comedian. In 2006, Ward won the Time Out's Critic's Choice award for Best Newcomer and wrote Take A Break Tales - exaggerated adaptations of women's magazine stories - in which she appeared with Neil Edmond, Emma Fryer and Isy Suttie at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The next year she co-wrote Psister Psycho - a musical about a killer robotic lesbian nun - with Martin White for the 2007 Edinburgh Festival which was a cult hit and was nominated for the Chortle Award for Best Full Length Show 2008. She was also a regular member of Robin Ince's Book Club where she performed under the guise of Andy McNabb, Heather Mills McCartney, Adam Ant and David Bowie.
2016 also saw Two Brothers Pictures launch their comedy Fleabag on BBC Three and Amazon written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Fleabag's first series received numerous awards, including; BAFTA TV (Female Performance in a Comedy), Televisual (Best Comedy), Writers Guild of Great Britain (Best TV Sitcom), RTS (Best Breakthrough, Best Comedy Writer), Chortle (Best TV Comedy), BPG (Best Writer), Broadcast (Best Multichannel, Best Original Programme) and NME (Best TV Series) as well as receiving more nominations for Golden Nymphs, BAFTA Craft, C21, BPG, Critics Choice, Broadcast Digital, Rockie Awards, Broadcast, Televisual, British Film Designers Guild, RTS Craft and BAFTA Craft Programmes include Liar, conspiracy thriller Strangers (originally titled White Dragon), Cheat and The Widow for ITV, and Rellik and Baptiste for BBC One. Two Brothers Pictures joined the All3Media Group in 2017.
In July 2015, The Stage called him a "Star Maker" in a front page interview, and Broadcast Magazine have announced him as a Director of new ROAR Comedy company with Corrie McGuire from Objective and Professor Jonathan Shalit OBE. In Jan 2017 he was announced to have masterminded the acquisition of CKP (Christian Knowles Productions) the agency that represents Micky Flanagan, Zoe Lyons, Hal Cruttenden and Mark Watson and was appointed Director as reported in The Stage and on Chortle. He has also produced West-End theatre, and his most notable productions include Associate Producer on Pixie Lott in Breakfast at Tiffany's at Theatre Royal, Haymarket in 2016, Diana Vickers in Hatched 'N' Dispatched at Park Theatre September 2015, Neil Henry's Magical Mindsquirm at Edinburgh 2015, Nicholas Hoult in New Boy and Phill Jupitus in Lifecoach at the Trafalgar Studios. He also established the Whatsonstage.
In 2013, Richardson replaced Olly Murs as co-presenter of the ITV2 spin-off show The Xtra Factor with Caroline Flack, airing immediately after the main ITV show hosted by Dermot O'Leary. On 4 June, both Richardson and Flack announced that they would not return for The Xtra Factor for series 11. Richardson is a regular panelist and presenter on Channel 5's Big Brother spin-off show Big Brother's Bit on the Side. In 2014, Richardson was a regular panelist on the ITV2 panel show Viral Tap presented by Caroline Flack. In 2016, Richardson became the drive time presenter on the digital radio station Virgin Radio UK. In 2018 his show on Virgin was nominated for a Radio Academy Award for Funniest ShowBennett, Steve (17 September 2018) Comedians who are head of the heard Chortle He left Virgin Radio on 2 August 2019.
Kevin Eldon Will See You Now received an overwhelmingly positive reception when it was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and has been nominated for a number of awards. The show made the shortlist for the British Comedy Guide Awards for Best Radio Sketch Show in 2017, and again in 2020. Series 3 was also shortlisted for the 2018 Writers Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy, and Series 4 was also shortlisted for both the Radio Award at the Chortle Awards, and the award for Best Scripted Comedy Show at the BBC's Audio Drama Awards. Writing in The Big Issue in 2019, Robin Ince described Kevin Eldon as "a titan of British comedy whose innovative new radio show is giving him the platform his unique talent deserves", while Brian Donaldson, writing for 'The List, gave Kevin Eldon Will See You Now 4 stars, calling the show "addictive listening".
" Morgan called the duo "one of the greatest sketch shows I've ever seen." Steve Bennett, reviewing the same entry at that festival for Chortle called O'Neill and Valenti "slick, talented and with undoubted funny", comparing them to The Pajama Men. Bennett noted the manner in which their skits gradually establish their premise in judiciously quiet moments, before implementing more manic payoffs that subvert expectations. While Bennett did not believe that the setups were always paced properly, he noted the ones that were, saying, "To call them sketches would seem to demean their unquestionable artistry – builds up the tension so beautifully, then punctures it so hilariously with just two short words, it's one of the best single moments of the Fringe." Jon Stapley, reviewing a 2012 Edinburgh performance of The Chris and Paul Show for Broadway Baby, lauded the pair, noting that despite the audience tension on account of the performance beginning ten minutes late, "the result was a very different, very funny hour of comedy that quickly won the audience’s affections and left everyone with big grins on their faces.
The Guild’s founder, Mrs Jessie Vasey, was the originator of the idea for the design of the Guild’s badge. It features the kookaburra, an industrious and cheerful bird who mated for life, was fearless and aggressive in the defence of its young and the area of territory it regarded as its own. The bird also had a unique call, not a song but a laugh; a chortle of rollicking mirth (to bring the widows back to laughter His Excellency Major General Michael Jeffery AC CVO MC, speech, 20 April 2007, Canberra). Also the kookaburra is a typically and completely Australian symbol, one that could be worn proudly by every widow whatever her creed or ideals. The kookaburra was also the mascot of the 7th Division , commanded by Mrs Vasey’s husband, Major-General George Alan Vasey.Clarke, Mavis Thorpe (1986), No Mean Destiny: The Story of the War Widows’ Guild of Australia 1945-85, Hyland House Publishing Pty Ltd, South Yarra, Victoria, p18, p144 Mrs Vasey asked the Hungarian sculptor, Andor Meszaros, who was living in Melbourne, to design a badge featuring this Australian bird.
She also appeared with Jim Bob for the fourth year of the "Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People" event at the Bloomsbury Theatre in December 2011. Suttie appeared in the short film that accompanied the song "God of Loneliness" by Emmy The Great, alongside Shazad Latif, directed by Chris Boyle. Suttie was nominated for Best Female Newcomer at the 2008 British Comedy Awards, then Female Breakthrough Artist in 2011 and Best Female TV Comic in 2014. She was regional winner of the Daily Telegraph Young Jazz Competition (1995) for composition, winner of the Julian Slade Songwriting Competition (1998) and Chortle Awards best newcomer nominee (2005). In 2013, the BBC Radio 4 version of Pearl and Dave won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award. She provides the voices for BBC One's Walk on the Wild Side in addition to voicing the character of Josie The Dog in Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler's Penelope Princess of Pets (Channel 4 Comedy Lab). She provides voices for children's series The Revolting World of Stanley Brown.
As Managing Director of Cole Kitchenn Personal Management Ltd. His client list includes actors Janie Dee, Dame Joan Collins, Pixie Lott, Katherine Jenkins OBE, Hannah Spearritt, Marc Pickering, Chizzy Akudolu, Glynis Barber, Rita Simons, Mica Paris, Phoebe Thomas, Louise Jameson, Mark Moraghan, Sid Owen, comedians Jan Ravens, Josie Lawrence, Lewis Macleod and Hal Cruttenden, West- End and Broadway theatre stars 2016 Evening Standard Award Winner Tyrone Huntley, 2017 Olivier Award winner David Bedella, 2017 Whatsonstage Award Winner Emma Williams, Amy Lennox, Cassie Compton, Christine Allado, Caroline O'Connor, Rosemary Ashe, Stephen Carlile, Lauren Samuels, Melanie La Barrie, Siobhan McCarthy, Alexandra Silber, Judy Kuhn, Mazz Murray, and creatives Arlene Phillips, Russell Labey and Nick Winston. As Director of ROAR Comedy (announced by Broadcast Magazine July 2015 with co-directors Corrie Maguire and Professor Jonathan Shalit OBE, their clients include Pete Firman, Vikki Stone, Marcel Lucont and Olivia Lee. In Jan 2017 he was announced to have masterminded the acquisition of CKP (Christian Knowles Productions) the agency that represents Micky Flanagan, Zoe Lyons, Hal Cruttenden and Mark Watson and was appointed Director as reported in The Stage and on Chortle.
She also appeared live on the Australia comedy talk show Rove. Later, she was nominated for best breakthrough act at the 2007 Chortle Awards. In December 2008, she appeared on the BBC stand-up television show Live at the Apollo alongside Russell Kane and Al Murray. She also made an appearance on Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow on 20 June 2009, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on 26 June 2009 and 8 Out of 10 Cats on 10 July 2009. Khorsandi's memoir, A Beginner's Guide to Acting English, was published by Ebury Press on 2 July 2009. She performed her show, The Distracted Activist, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from 6 to 31 August 2009. Khorsandi was a panellist on Question Time in 2006, and returned on 14 January 2010. During that show, she mentioned that she supports Labour. She performed on the second episode of Let's Dance for Sport Relief 2010. In 2010, Khorsandi took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, filmed live at the O2 Arena in London on 30 March.

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