The week's best live comedy

The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 5,889 events Chortle currently has listed. Use our search panel to check out our full listings by date and region.

Sunday February 6

LEICESTER: The city's comedy festival continues all week. Tonight's pick is Mark Watson's midlife crisis show This Can't Be It at the Y at 8pm. Review.

LONDON: Handforth Parish Council's Queen of Zoom Jackie Weaver tries her hand at comedy, hosting a panel show called The Comedians' Council at the Bedford in Balham. There are two shows, at 2pm and 6pm, featuring Isy Suttie, Ken Cheng, Paul Sinha, Glenn Moore and Suzi Ruffell.

CHORLEY: Increasingly in-demand Kiri Pritchard-McLean kicks off her 2022 tour, Home Truths, tonight. A regular on TV and radio, especially in her native Wales, and popular podcaster, the comedian will use the new show to talk about moving back to her home island of Anglesey, struggling with lockdown and looking after some rescue chickens. Kiri Pritchard-McLean tour dates

Monday February 7

LONDON: The Last Leg's Adam Hills headlines a very strong line-up at the Comedy Store in aid of the The Children's Trust, featuring Alasdair Beckett-King, Luisa Omielan, Sarah Keyworth, Sindhu Vee and Tim Vine

Tuesday February 8

EPSOM: There's barely a line between politics and satire at the moment, which probably explains how Westminster journalist Matt Chorley can embark on a comedy tour. The Times writer and broadcaster kicks off his run at the Playhouse tonight. Matt Chorley tour dates

Wednesday February 9

WIMBORNE: Count Arthur Strong hits the road with his new tour, And This Is Me. And nothing puts it better than the show blurb itself: 'After many years of giving his wonderful lecture talks of his he does, Count Arthur Strong has at last bowed to substantial pubic demand and allowed himself be talked into making the show about himself for once. And that had never occurred to him before because of him being highly magnanimous.' Count Arthur Strong tour dates.

LONDON: Tim Key unveils his new show, Mulberry, at the Soho Theatre in which he will 'plod about in his velour tracksuit/read his little poems/bleat etc. Lockdown themed most probably'. The show runs until the 26th.

Friday February 11

BIRMINGHAM: There's a good bill at the Glee across this weekend, with provocateur Fin Taylor, commanding Dana Alexander, much-tipped Liam Farelly and Kevin Bridges' tour support, Paul McCaffrey.

Saturday February 12

LONDON: Brett Goldstein - set to enter Hollywood big leagues after signing a deal with Warner Bros on the back of his Ted Lasso acclaim - hosts a live edition of his Films To Be Buried With podcast at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. But his guest has not been revealed.

LONDON: A great line-up of familiar faces at the Woolwich Works boasts the varied comedy styles of wry Ivo Graham, dry Phil Wang, manic Nick Helm, and charming-yet-provocative Sophie Duker.

Published: 6 Feb 2022