The final finalists in the Chortle Student Comedy Award have been named. Francesca Best has won the people’s choice, after securing the most votes in an online poll, while James Perham and Isaac ...

It’s quite odd when you make a new friend in later life. I’m in the unfortunate - but very common - position of having lost several friends over the years, so it is very welcome. An advantage over ...

• George Rigden: Self-Inflicted is on at the Motley Wherehouse at 10pm Thursday to Sunday until April 19, and 7.30pm on Fridays at the Limerick Arms, South Melbourne.

This is Barney Pollock’s first festival show, but the skill and commitment with which he inhabits his nightmarishly surreal characters tells you he’s an already accomplished performer, even if you ...

Why should the right-wing have the monopoly on asshole comedians? That’s the gap in the market that New Zealand’s Guy Williams is seeking to fill with his aggressive, goading comedy – and he throws ...

Ricky Gervais has won a two-year battle to knock down his riverside home and build a new £5million mansion. The comedian’s previous plans to develop his property in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, has been ...

Dilly Dallying is not the show it’s described as. In what could be one big meta joke, Melanie Bracewell hasn’t written the billed hour about procrastination, and instead tells the story of how she got ...

Here’s 88-year-old Marie McLaren performing stand-up for the first time, after part in a Glasgow International Comedy Festival scheme. Marie performed a five-minute set at the festival after she took ...

Rice is due to perform his Cruel Little Man tour at Melbourne until the end of the festival on April 19, followed by dates in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. • Click here to make Chortle a 'preferred ...

Elsewhere, Wittrup’s often inappropriate mum is a source of laughs, inspiring one entry that lists all the reasons why she was such a bitch. Lest the audience doubt the provenance of the material, a ...

Instead, Touching My Active Mind is a grab-bag of fatuous madness, powered by the comic’s unbridled enthusiasm for just having a laugh, however dumb. He affects being tongue-in-cheek when he promises ...

No Small Talk is something of a misnomer for Anisa Nandaula given she loves chit-chat with her audience.