Ironically The Chortle award ceremony in London is on the same night as Punch-Drunk host Jason Cook.

He is a Chortle Awards nominee and Funniest Person in the World nominee, and was voted the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2012.

He's won the Amused Moose Laugh-off Competition, was a Chortle Best Newcomer nominee and runner-up in So You Think You're Funny.

"What can I say?" says Close with a chortle . "He likes boys."

Boies returned to Linux during his redirection of the witness, introducing the Washington Post article in which Red Hat CEO Bob Young chortled: "It just tells you how desperate Microsoft are for a competitor...Who are they trying to kid?" "I didn't chortle ," said Fisher, "but like Mr Young, I can see the joke." As for Judge Jackson, he seems to regard this all as something of a sideshow.

She has a string of credits to her name, including most recently nominated as Chortle Club Comic of the Year 2014.

Nominated as Best Female Stand-Up in the Chortle Awards, Jo has been hailed for her 'intelligent observational comedy, quick mind and, at times, sharp tongue.'.

(2007 and 2012), twice won the Chortle Award for Best Sketch Performers (2008 and 2013) and their hit podcast, FlatshareSlamdown, won a Loaded Lafta Award (2012).

IT'S the comedy talent hunt that's helped uncover stars of The Inbetweeners, Plebs, Radio One and the UK stand-up circuit - and now the Chortle Student Comedy Award is coming to Warwickshire.

And when that good news comes with a bit of an unintended chortle it's all the more enjoyable.

Mrs Brown's Boys is filmed in the BBC Scotland studios in Glasgow and there is nothing more bizarre than hearing the rasping chortle of the buxom Irish mammy in the canteen and realising it's coming from a man.