Now Leicester Comedy Festival's venue closes
Landlords take possession over unpaid rent
07/07/2026 … Landlords have taken possession of the venue run by organisers of the beleaguered Leicester Comedy Festival over unpaid rent, Chortle can reveal.
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Tue 07 July 2026
Virgin Radio to broadcast from the Edinburgh Fringe
Graham Norton and Geoff Lloyd will be at the festival
07/07/2026 … Graham Norton and Geoff Lloyd are to present their Virgin Radio shows live from Edinburgh during the Fringe.
Free Fringe announces a venue just for newbies
Short runs, away from the main drag
07/07/2026 … The PBH Free Fringe is running a venue just for performers making their Edinburgh debuts this year.
Mon 06 July 2026
Ricky Gervais reveals his own Office 25-year tribute
Coming out a day before the BBC's
06/07/2026 … Ricky Gervais has unveiled details of his own show marking 25 years of The Office, to be released a day before the BBC’s own tribute.
© The Other Richard Dan Tiernan and Kiell Smith-Bynoe to judge BBC New Comedy Award
06/07/2026 … Dan Tiernan and Kiell Smith-Bynoe are to join the judging panel for this year's BBC New Comedy Awards Organisers say they will be working alongside host Amy…
Sun 05 July 2026
© Jennifer Forward-Hayter Dead Meet is dead good
05/07/2026 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© BBC Remembering The Office, 25 years on
The week's comedy on TV, radio and streaming
05/07/2026 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
Sat 04 July 2026
Details revealed for Kevin McCarron's funeral
Laughing Horse co-founder to be remembered
04/07/2026 … Details have been finalised for the funeral of Kevin McCarron, the co-founder of the Laughing Horse comedy clubs who died last Saturday at the age of 72.