The best of the week's live comedy

The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 4,000-plus events Chortle currently has listed. Use our search panel to check our full listings by date and region.

Sunday November 6

NOTTINGHAM: The city’s comedy festival continues all week, with tonight’s highlight a triple bill at the Canalhouse: Lauren Pattison’s latest storytelling show It Is What It Is at 5.30pm, the silly pun-loving Scottish Falsetto Socks at 7pm and fine Everyman comedy from Scott Bennett at 8.30pm. Others coming to time over the coming week include Harriet Kelmsey, Nabil Abdulrashid and Mark Thomas. Website

Monday November 7

MANCHESTER: Beat The Frog, the weekly gong show held at the Frog & Bucket comedy club is, incredibly, in its 19th year. The best of the crop take part in an annual - ungonged - showcase called the World Series Final, which takes place tonight. Vying for title are Dane Buckley, James Ellis, Katie Gill-Williams, Bennet Kavanagh, Molly McGuinness, Sergi Polo, Faizan Shah, Richard Spalding, Viggo Venn and Amy Webber. As always, Chortle will be on hand to report back on how they do.

LONDON: The Comedy Store plays host to Stand Up for Animals, a benefit gig for Humane Society International that boasts a strong line-up: Adele Cliff, Alasdair Beckett-King, Carl Donnelly, Kerry Godliman and Lou Sanders.

LONDON: Loose, self-referential and very funny sketch trio Tarot - aka Ed Easton, Kath Hughes and Adam Drake - begin a week-long run of their latest show, Cautionary Tales, at the Soho Theatre. Review

Tuesday November 8

LONDON: The week’s second benefit at the Comedy Store is in aid of the Honeypot Children’s Charity and features the stand-up talents of Catherine Bohart, Charlie George, Emmanuel Sonubi, Glenn Wool, Kelly Convey and Michael May

Thursday November 10

HAYES: Sara Pascoe starts her latest tour, Success Story, at the Beck Theatre in Middlesex tonight. It was inspired by her reconsidering what is meant by ‘success’ after hearing the word so often during her IVF treatment, as she discusses in this interview . But she promises plenty of daft stories too in a tour that will keep her on the road until April. Sara ​Pascoe tour dates.

LONDON: Ramy Youssef - star of the acclaimed, eponymous and autobiographical US TV series about being raised Muslim in New Jersey - plays a rare British stand-up date tonight, at the Leicester Square Theatre.

LONDON: Long-running comedy club The Good Ship moves to a new home this week, the Grafton Arms in Holloway, and has a fine mix of emerging comics to christen the new room: Celya AB, Jacob Hawley, Tom Ward and regular host Ben Van Der Velde.

BIRMINGHAM: As part of the city’s Shout Festival of queer art and culture, Jen Brister, Zoe Lyons play the Glee, in a special night of the MY comedy club run and compered by Maureen Younger.

Saturday November 12

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON: Garth Marenghi returns to the stage. His creator Matthew Holness kicks off a live book tour at the Stratford Literary Festival to promote the publication of the ‘long-lost multi-volume horror epic’ TerrorTome, Seventeen more dates follow. Garth Marenghi tour dates. TerrorTome is also available from Amazon.

Published: 6 Nov 2022