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The best of the week's live gigs
09/03/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,657 events Chortle currently has listed.
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Sun 09 March 2025
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© Netflix John Mulaney goes live
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
09/03/2025 … Our pick of the limited amount of new comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday March 10 RICHARD OSMAN’S HOUSE OF GAMES: A rerun of…
Fri 07 March 2025
Victoria Wood's statue is back on her feet
Comic's memorial restored after being damaged by a taxi
07/03/2025 … Victoria Wood’s statue has been reinstated in Bury town centre after it was hit and damaged by a taxi last year.
© Chortle Edinburgh Fringe announces its £2,500 bursary recipients
Third year of the Keep It Fringe assistance
07/03/2025 … The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced 180 recipients of a £2,500 bursary to help them bring a show to this year’s festival This…
© Netflix Comic fined £1,750 over ham pun
Harith Iskander's gag deemed to have mocked Islam
07/03/2025 … Comedian Harith Iskander has been fined the equivalent of £1,750 after making a pun about the word ‘ham’ deemed to have mocked Islam.
Documentary hails the visionary genuis of Douglas Adams
Sky to air The Man Who Imagined Our Future
07/03/2025 … Sky is to air a new documentary about Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy creator Douglas Adams.
Thu 06 March 2025
© Matt Crockett Nick Mohammed joins Last One Laughing
Mr Swallow tries to make fellow comedians crack up
06/03/2025 … Nick Mohammed and Alison Hammond are to appear as cameos in the upcoming reality show Last One Laughing , Amazon has announced.