Plus Hannah Gadsby, Andy Zaltzman, Natalie Palamides and the rest of the week's best live comedy

The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,507 events Chortle currently has listed. Use our search panel to check our full listings by date and region.

Sunday November 3

GUILDFORD: Andy Zaltzman is back from his Test Match Special duties in Pakistan and kicks off his new tour, The Zaltgeist, at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre tonight. According to the publicity, The News Quiz host's aim is to 'concoct vaguely plausible answers to perennial questions such as What? Who? Where? and above all Why?'. Andy Zaltzman tour dates.

LONDON: At the Cavendish Arms in Stockwell tonight, musical comedian including Jazz Emu, Rob Copland and Katie Pritchard indulge in a jam session 'creating art in front of your very ears'

Monday November 4

MANCHESTER: It's the 'world series' final of the Beat The Frog new act competition at the Frog & Bucket tonight. Vying for the title are Tabish Akbar, Sharifa Butterfly, Alfie Dundas, Shannon Griffiths, Donatas Kvesely, Murph, Ciara O'Connor, Bilal Rachid, Alex Redman and Maxine Wade.

LONDON: Hannah Gadsby's at the London Palladium all week with Woof!, a new show about the comedian's anxieties, both personal and global, even while acknowledging their life is better now than it's ever been Tickets

LONDON: It promises to be an entertaining double recorded when Richard Herring welcomes Nish Kumar and Milton Jones to his Leicester Square Theatre Podcast tonight.

LONDON: At the Comedy Store, Suzi Ruffell hosts a charity fundraiser for the Spread a Smile charity for seriously ill children and teenagers, with a bill that includes Tom Allen, Angela Barnes and Ania Magliano.

LEEDS: Chrissie Rock, the Liverpudlian comic who began in the working men's clubs in the 1980s and 1990s, before finding greater fame in as Maggie Conlan in the 1994 film Ladybird, Ladybird, and as Janey York in the ITV sitcom Benidorm, kicks off a short tour at The Wardrobe. She's in St Helens on Tuesday, Carlisle on Wednesday, Dudley on Friday and Liverpool on Sunday.

Wednesday November 6

LONDON: American comic and clown Natalie Palamides brings Weer, one of the talks of this year's Edinburgh Fringe, to the Soho Theatre. In it, she plays both sides of a couple in high-drama 1990s-stye romcom with more than a few big theatrical moments adding to the both the absurdity and the farce in this successfully ambitious show. Read our review here

Thursday November 7

BIRMINGHAM: Celya AB, the offbeat French gagsmith who made Birmingham her home, and witty everyman Scott Bennett join Andy Robinson for is regular Comedy Carousel gig at the Glee, before performing at the regular weekend gigs tomorrow and Saturday,.

Friday November 8

LONDON: The Broadway Theatre hosts a strong night of stand-up, led by the skilful Seann Walsh and intense Nick Helm alongside Darius Davies and Michael Akadiri.

Saturday November 9

LIVERPOOL: Count Arthur Strong – Steve Delaney's muddle-minded creation – gets ready or the festive season with a new tour of Count Arthur Strong Is Charles Dickens In A Christmas Carol, a typically confused retelling of the classic story, kicking off at the Liverpool Playhouse tonight. Count Arthur Strong tour dates

LEEDS: It's a strong night at the Revolución de Cuba, with veteran political musical comic Steve Gribbin, esoteric Tony Law and powerfully crude Jenny Hart.

Published: 3 Nov 2024