And as Taskmaster returns for its 21st series on Thursday, here are some questions about contestants who didn't fare so well. Hope you do better!

Two emerging writers are to join BBC Studios’ audio comedy team on a development scheme that dates back to 1978. Angela Channell and Adrian Gray will each spend six months working on BBC Radio 4 and ...

New Zealand comedian Guy Montgomery is bringing his spelling bee to London for the first time.

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 ...

• 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...