Rosco McClelland wins Billy Connolly award
For a comedian who encapsulates the spirit of Glasgow
30/03/2025 … Rosco McClelland has won this year’s Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award.
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Sun 30 March 2025
© UKTV Jack Dee and Jake Lambert vs Kyrgyzstan's roads
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
30/03/2025 … Our pick of the new comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Sunday March 30 WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS ROADS: In this week's episode, Jack…
Still afloat after all these years
London's Boat Show celebrates its quarter-century and the rest of the week's live comedy picks
30/03/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
Sat 29 March 2025
Anna completes the Chortle Student Comedy Award final line-up
Oxford PhD candidate wins the People's Choice place
29/03/2025 … Anna Rae George has been selected as the last finalist in this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award following a public vote.
Fri 28 March 2025
Sky announces new series of comedy shorts
With Kae Kurd, Andrew Mensah, Kyrah Gray annd Stevo The Madman.
28/03/2025 … Sky has announced four new series of digital shorts featuring comedians Kae Kurd, Andrew Mensah and Kyrah Gray, plus internet personality Stevo The Madman.
In the name of the Auntie, and of the homie chavvie, and of the Fantabulosa Fairy...
Kenneth Williams Bible readings to air for the first time
28/03/2025 … Previously unheard tapes of Kenneth Williams reading stories from the Bible are to air on Radio 4.
Second series for Michael Spicer's No Room
Comedy returns to Radio 4 next month
28/03/2025 … Michael Spicer has made a second series of his Radio 4 sketch show No Room.
Comic seeks pub yarns for new book
Marc Jennings teams up with Scottish brewer Innis & Gunn
28/03/2025 … Glasgow-based comedian Marc Jennings is helping Scottish brewer Innis & Gunn compile the country’s funniest stories for a new book of pub banter and confessions.