5 new stand-up specials come to ITVX
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
12/01/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Sunday January 12 THE DRY: It's been streaming on ITVX for a while – where…
Latest News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 12 January 2025
Matt Forde's political podcast returns to the West End
Guests to include Rachel Reeves
12/01/2025 … Matt Forde is to return to the West End with his Political Party podcast after an 18-month hiatus to have his bone cancer treated.
New tours for Sophie Duker and Craig Hill... & Chris McCausland's back on the road
12/01/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,845 events Chortle currently has listed.
Fri 10 January 2025
© Bafta/Zoe McConnell, 2024 Warwick Davis to receive Bafta Fellowship
Actor has been 'profoundly influential'
10/01/2025 … Warwick Davis is to be given the Bafta Fellowship at this year’s film award ceremony – the most prestigious honour the British Film and TV Academy…
© BBC/Merman More cast announced for Amandaland
Motherland spin-off coming next month
10/01/2025 … The BBC has announced the cast of Amandaland, the spin-off from Motherland that will air from February.
Much-loved comedy venue destroyed in LA wildfires
Theatre was dubbed 'the unofficial home of LA's burgeoning clown scene'
10/01/2025 … A small comedy venue known as the unofficial home of LA's burgeoning clown scene has been lost to the Californian wildfires.
© Avalon/Netflix Russell Howard: I'm done with TV
Comic says he's sticking to live stand-up and podcasts
10/01/2025 … Russell Howard said he’s done with TV after almost 20 years.
© Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo Russell Brand fined for speeding
10/01/2025 … Russell Brand has been fined more than £3,000 after admitting speeding.