Chuckle Time was cut short following the death of Barry Elliott on 5 August 2018 aged 73, meaning only six were broadcast. The final episode was shown in tribute to the comedian. It is unknown whether further episodes were recorded, as it was later stated that Barry had been forced to pull out of filming part-way through due to illness. Chuckle Time Chuckle Time was a British television series which was broadcast on Channel 5 in 2018. The show was hosted by the comedy duo Barry and Paul Elliott, best known as The Chuckle Brothers. It was based off a similar style
The Acquisitive Chuckle The Acquisitive Chuckle "The Acquisitive Chuckle" is a short story written by American writer Isaac Asimov in 1971, first published in the January 1972 issue of "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine". He originally called it "The Chuckle", but the magazine's title was kept in subsequent uses of the story. It was the first of Asimov's stories about the Black Widowers, an eccentric group of men who met once a month. The story is based loosely upon the Trap Door Spiders, a stag-club of which Asimov was a member. The Black Widowers stories concerned a dinner guest who had a problem or