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.
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Mon 06 July 2026
© 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.
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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.
Fri 03 July 2026
Turkish comedian arrested for insulting Erdogan
Deniz Göktaş detained for calling the president a dictator
03/07/2026 … A Turkish comedian has been arrested on charges of insulting Islam and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during one of his shows.
Thu 02 July 2026
Second series for Ed Gamble's Unacceptable
Before the first has even aired
02/07/2026 … Ed Gamble-fronted panel show Unacceptable has been renewed for a second series, before the first has even aired.
© BBC/Various Artists Limited Such Brave Girls named best comedy
At the Broadcast Digital Awards
02/07/2026 … Kat Sadler's BBC Three sitcom Such Brave Girls has been named best comedy at the Broadcast Digital Awards.