Morecambe was born in Buxton Street to George and Sarah Bartholomew – and died in 1984, aged 58, after collapsing in the wings of the Roses Theatre in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. The BBC is currently ...

Fjord, the spoof Norwegian Eurodance legends created by comedy duo Giants, are releasing their first album – and Chortle can share an exclusive first track.

Comedian Elliot Steel is to front a documentary about the new, controversial sport of slap fighting. In the contest, fighters alternate slapping one another as hard as they can in the hope of knocking ...

The Chris & Rosie Ramsey Show will not be returning to the BBC. Today’s Sun reports that a third series will not be going ahead in an ongoing on-off saga. In July 2024 the paper claimed the talk show ...

Daisy May and Charlie Cooper have been told they are descended from 18th Century highwayman Dick Turpin. In Sunday’s episode of their BBC Two ghost-hunting series NightWatch, the siblings behind This ...

Five extra performances have been added to the Two Doors Down Live show at Glasgow’s Ovo Hydro. The announcement comes as the first five dates also go on general sale from 10am today, meaning the show ...

Another atrocity in America – and after the latest assault, neighborrs said they always knew the teenage gunman was evil and did nothing because they are evil too They say he was not particularly ...

Matt Lucas, David Walliams and Mel Giedroyc are among the household names helping to relaunch a tiny London pub theatre this winter. The 60-seater Pentameters Theatre had been in operation above The ...

A raft of top comedy stars has joined the cast of the BBC’s forthcoming sitcom The Reluctant Vampire – based on the books by Eric Morecambe. Tom Davis, Sian Clifford, Charlie Cooper, Asim Chaudhry, ...

This Place Is A Sh*thole ‘distils the agony of living in overpriced yet filthy shared flats’ by plunging viewers into ‘a claustrophobic nightmare - where the chaos and grime of communal living spiral ...

More than 100 listeners have complained to the BBC about the swearing in Call Jonathan Pie. The comedy show featuring the broadcaster alter-ego of performer Tom Walker originally aired on Radio 4 at ...

Eddie Izzard is to give primary school pupils a private Shakespearean performance. The comedian will visit St Michael’s CofE Primary School in Louth, Lincolnshire, on Monday and perform extracts of ...