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The best of the week's live comedy
23/07/2023 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
2023 Archives
Sun 23 July 2023
© Stuart Hogben Jordan Gray at Latitude 2023
Review from the Suffolk festival
23/07/2023 … She attracted 1,500 complaints for stripping naked in a career-defining appearance on Friday Night Live – but at Latitude, Jordan Gray proved she can be entertaining…
Rachel Parris pilots a topical Radio 4 comedy show
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
23/07/2023 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and on demand this week: Tuesday July 25 AMBASSADORS: This three-episode series from 2013 stars David Mitchell and Robert…
Sat 22 July 2023
© Stuart Hogben Ed Gamble at Latitude 2023
With Amy Gledhill providing the perfect lead-in
22/07/2023 … Ed Gamble got a lovely lead-in to his Friday night headline set at Latitude, courtesy of the bubbly, confessional set by Amy Gledhill - embracing silliness to the…
Edinburgh Fringe 10x10: Ten shows about sport
22/07/2023 … There doesn’t seem to be much of a crossover between sport and art at the Edinburgh Fringe.
© Stuart Hogben Rachel Parris at Latitude 2023
Review from the Suffolk festival
22/07/2023 … Was becoming a political comedian ever part of Rachel Parris’s plan? The musical comedian found herself in the satirical realm thanks to Late Night Mash and…
© Stuart Hogben Russell Kane at Latitude 2023
Review from the Suffolk festival
22/07/2023 … Offering an astute analysis of the British psyche, Russell Kane comments on our ‘all or nothing’ attitude: emotionally repressed then getting roaring…
Fri 21 July 2023
© Lee Jameson Comedy is lesbian AF now
Sophie Santos celebrates the boom in queer stand-up
21/07/2023 … As a queer person, I was lucky.