© Cottonbro Studios/Pexels Entries open for Melbourne comedy festival's short film contest
09/11/2026 … Entires have opened for Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s short film competition, Funny Shorts.
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Angela Bra wins joke of the Nottingham Comedy Festival
Maths-based pun claims the title
08/11/2026 … Angela Bra has won the ‘joke of the festival’ award at the Nottingham Comedy Festival.
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The week's comedy on TV, radio and streaming
08/11/2026 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
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08/11/2026 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,270 events Chortle currently has listed.
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© Iona Wolff Jack Whitehall to star in 'surprising' romcom
The Honeymooners to be set in an Italian vineyard
06/11/2026 … Jack Whitehall has been cast in a new romcom – as a man forced to go on honeymoon with the woman he just secretly divorced.
Netflix wants more Nobody Wants This
Streamer orders fourth season of hit romcom
06/11/2026 … Netflix has renewed Nobody Wants This for a fourth series.
Reece Shearsmith and Jessica Hynes to appear in White Rabbit Red Rabbit
Experimental play has a new star every night
06/11/2026 … Reece Shearsmith and Jessica Hynes will perform in the final shows of White Rabbit Red Rabbit, the experimental play in which a different performer opens a sealed…
© Mark Sheen Paddy Raff stars in sitcom pilot
Alongside his sister Claire Rafferty, who wrote it
06/11/2026 … Comic Paddy Raff is to appear in a BBC comedy short written and created by his sister, the actress Claire Rafferty.