New tours for Nick Helm and Alasdair Beckett-King
...and the rest of the week's top live comedy
24/03/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the more than 7,000 events Chortle currently has listed.
2024 Archives
Sun 24 March 2024
Urzila Carlson cancels Melbourne festival run
...because she's been cast in a Hollywood movie
24/03/2024 … Urzila Carlson has cancelled her run at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival after being cast in a Hollywood movie.
Sat 23 March 2024
Frank Skinner dropped from Absolute Radio
Comic loses his show after 15 years
23/03/2024 … Frank Skinner has been dropped his Absolute Radio show after 15 years.
Baby Reindeer trailer
Richard Gadd's Netflix series about being the victim of a stalker
23/03/2024 … Netflix has released the trailer for Baby Reindeer – the TV adaptation of comic Richard Gadd's live show about being the target of a stalker.
© Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksfotoarchief: Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Fotopersbureau (ANEFO), 1945-1989 - negatiefstroken zwart/wit, nummer toegang 2.24.01.05, bestanddeelnummer 925-4081/CC BY-SA 3.0 Why the New Seekers failed
23/03/2024 … Posts of the week The posters for this are definitely going to have certain letters scribbled out.
Fri 22 March 2024
© Paul Gilbey Fesshole Live
Review from the Glasgow International Comedy Festival
22/03/2024 … Surveying the dreadful, divided state of X, formerly known as Twitter, nowadays, you'd be forgiven for forgetting what a democratising effect it had on humour…
© Hiscox Group John Cooper Clarke works for an insurance firm now
22/03/2024 … He may have built his reputation as a punk poet, but now John Cooper Clarke is working for an insurance company.
'An American comedian whose edges haven't entirely been sanded off...'
22/03/2024 … Reviewer Tim Harding gives a rundown of the best comedy he's been watching in London this past fortnight.