Steve Bennett

London

Editor at Chortle

Editor of comedy website Chortle. Not active here. https://t.co/acE9QDWVBI for work posts

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Articles

Diane Morgan: I thought I'd blown my chance at Who Do You Think You Are?

5 days ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

Diane Morgan has admitted she thought she’d never be asked to take part in the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? – after mocking it on screen.
Edinburgh Fringe launches its 2025 printed programme

5 days ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

The printed edition of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme has been unveiled today. It features 3,352 shows across 265 venues - though more will be added to the online box office as the festival approaches. Comedy is again the biggest section, with 1,214 shows representing 36.2 per cent of the programme, followed by the 930 theatre shows making up 27.7 per cent.
Unseen Mitch Hedberg pilot emerges

6 days ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

Rare footage of late American stand-up Mitch Hedberg has resurfaced – thanks to fellow comic Doug Stanhope. Stanhope has posted to YouTube a half-hour pilot that Hedberg recorded for MTV in 2001, which he discovered on an old VHS in his home’s crawl space.
Brush up on your art, says Harry Hill

6 days ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

Harry Hill is backing a new nationwide drawing project inspired by David Hockney. The comic has chosen the next theme for the Draw! project created as part of the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture. He has chosen A Typical Sunday Morning as June’s subject, while releasing his own ‘surreal and playful’ illustration on the theme: showing him being chased by his cat Stouffer.
Futuristic new podcast from Richard Ayoade and Warwick Davis

6 days ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

Richard Ayoade and Warwick Davis will this week launch a comedy podcast examining the future of humanity. In each episode of Future Tense the pair will be joined by stand-up and science writer Helen Keen as well as expert guests. Ayoade said: ‘When I was first asked about this podcast I thought it was a bad idea, but then maybe it could be OK. And now we’ve made that bad or maybe OK idea a reality.
How to make money and get noticed at the Edinburgh Fringe.

6 days ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

So how do you make money and get noticed at the Fringe? Let’s answer the first one, you need to spend less than you make. Easy right? No, obviously in Edinburgh that’s now very hard. With artists likely to be spending £2,000 or more on accommodation before we’ve even started with venues and publicity, how on Earth can you make money, or even break even? Of course some venues offer great deals in terms of not losing money, The Stand is an obvious example.
Five Scottish to comics release free stand-up specials

6 days ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

Scottish comedians Marc Jennings, Christopher MacArthur-Boyd, Rosco McClelland, Liam Withnail and Stuart McPherson are to release stand-up specials for free on online this June and July. The weekly series called Summer Laugh, were recorded in The Pavilion Theatre, The Stand Comedy Club and Blackfriars of Bell Street in Glasgow, and Monkey Barrel Comedy in Edinburgh They are being presented by the team behind the Some Laugh podcast.
Brush up on your art, says Harry Hill

6 days ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

Harry Hill is backing a new nationwide drawing project inspired by David Hockney. The comic has chosen the next theme for the Draw! project created as part of the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture. He has chosen A Typical Sunday Morning as June’s subject, while releasing his own ‘surreal and playful’ illustration on the theme: showing him being chased by his cat Stouffer.
2025 Balham Comedy Festival line-up announced

6 days ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

South London’s Banana Cabaret has announced the line-up for their 2025 Balham Comedy Festival. The event, now in its 13th year, features the likes of Rhys James, Shaparak Khorsandi (pictured) and Ria Lina. It takes place from July 4 to 12 at The Bedford in Balham where the club has been running for 42 years.
WTF? Marc Maron ends his podcast after 16 years

6 days ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

Marc Maron is bringing his WTF podcast to an end after 16 years and more than 1,600 episodes.