'Allo 'Allo: Where are they now? : Features 2017 - Chortle
Dec 14, 2017 · Richard Gibson, Herr Otto Flick. Now 63, the Ugandan-born actor left 'Allo 'Allo after eight series, with David Janson taking over the role of the Gestapo officer in the final season. Since then, he has worked as a radio actor, scriptwriter and voiceover artist, including guest starring in the 2003 Doctor Who audio drama Flip-Flop.
New book from Gone Fishing's dog, Ted : News 2024 - Chortle
Aug 12, 2024 · Ted, the dog from Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse’s Gone Fishing, has 'written' his first book. His ‘pawtobiography’ is to be released in November and promises to expose ‘what it's like working alongside two national treasures and what really happens when the cameras stop rolling’. Publication will coincide with the eighth series of ...
Daddy Issues gets a second series : News 2024 - Chortle
Sep 16, 2024 · The BBC has ordered a second series of Daddy Issues, its comedy starring Aimee Lou Wood and David Morrissey. Writer Danielle Ward and producers Fudge park have been commissioned to write six more half-hour episodes of the siege, which was BBC Three's biggest comedy launch in two years. Sex Education star Wood said: ‘Daddy Issues is the most ...
Ousted from her own podcast! : News 2020 - Chortle
Sep 14, 2020 · Comedian Poppy Hillstead has complained about being unceremoniously dumped from a hit podcast she helped establish. The actor and film-maker launched Gossipmongers with stand-ups Joe Wilkinson and David Earl – best known for his alter-ego Brian Gittins – last year. However, she has been ditched for the fourth series, which launched today ...
Michael McIntyre: Macnificent : Reviews 2023 - Chortle
Oct 27, 2023 · Michael McIntyre: Macnificent. Review of the comic's first stand-up tour in five years. It’s been a long time since Michael McIntyre perfected his lucrative brand of exaggerated observational comedy. A pre-show video highlights reel tells us it’s been 15 years since that defining ‘man drawer’ routine – as well as highlighting just how ...
Gyles Brandreth writes his first autobiography - Chortle
Jun 4, 2021 · Gyles Brandreth has written his first autobiography, at the age of 73. Odd Boy Out promises insight into the broadcaster, comic and former MP’s ‘often eccentric and at times tragic family background and early years’. Brandreth told trade website The Bookseller: ‘This isn’t the autobiography I had expected to write.
Tom Allen becomes the face of People's Postcode Lottery
Aug 19, 2024 · Comic fronts new ad campaign. Tom Allen has become the new face of People's Postcode Lottery. In a two-week campaign that comic will be fronting a series of TV commercials in a scarlet-red, three-piece suit as well as on billboards and social media pads. The show him scooting around the country in a retro 1949 Morris JE electric van explaining ...
GB News reveals line-up of comedians for its newspaper ... - Chortle
Jan 21, 2022 · GB News has signed up a regular roster of 13 comedians to appear on its late-night newspaper preview show Headliners. The ‘anti-woke’ channel has given the hour-long show green light as a seven-night offering after an initial launch last month.
Stewart Lee: Basic Lee : Reviews 2022 : Chortle : The UK Comedy …
Sep 28, 2022 · It’s a reviewers’ cliché to call something a masterclass of comedy, but Stewart Lee’s latest show is almost literally that, as he gives what can loosely be described as a lecture in the artform: talking about writing material in part one, performing it in part two.. His whole career has been underpinned by doing comedy about comedy – and Basic Lee is the most explicit expression of ...
Plebs: Soldiers Of Rome : Reviews 2022 - Chortle
Dec 9, 2022 · Here, rather than go on holiday Marcus Gallo (Tom Rosenthal), his slave Grumio (Ryan Sampson), and Jason Brindisi (Jon Pointing) are despatched to the northern frontier of the Roman Empire, having signed up for the army with the promise of an easy life, free chicken and women falling at their feet. The Emperor’s promise of a golden age of ...