© Pierre Rosa / Pixabay Revealed: How the comedy scene is growing
Massive rise in the number of female comics especially
29/10/2024 … The number of big comedy events has risen by more than a third in the last decade.
2024 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 29 October 2024
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North West comedy audiences heckle the most
...and Southerners the least, according to a new survey
29/10/2024 … Almost one in seven comedy-goers in the North West say they have heckled a comedian – and one in nine admit they have ‘crashed’ the stage…
Mon 28 October 2024
Book deal for comics Abigoliah Schamaun and Joe Wells
Collection of essays about their 'neurodivergent moments'
28/10/2024 … Comedians Abigoliah Schamaun and Joe Wells have signed a book deal for a collection of ‘funny and relatable’ autobiographical essays with a neurodivergent…
Chris McCausland adds 100 new tour dates
...after surviving to dance another week on Strictly
28/10/2024 … Chris McCausland has added more than 100 new dates to his stand-up tour – after surviving his worst week on Strictly Come Dancing.
Sun 27 October 2024
Putting the 'ha' in Halloween
27/10/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,564 events Chortle currently has listed.
© Sarah Shatz/HBO Alex Edelman's Just For Us special comes to Sky
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
27/10/2024 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Sunday October 27 GENERATION X: Savvy teenagers take on flesh-eating baby-boomers in Ben…
Sat 26 October 2024
© Guy Levy/BBC Chris McCausland has a Strictly horror
Bottom of the leaderboard in Halloween week
26/10/2024 … Chris McCausland had a shocker on tonight's Strictly Come Dancing, coming bottom of the Halloween week leaderboard.
Fri 25 October 2024
© Hugo Glendinning Fawlty Towers extends its West End run again
London shows now go on to March
25/10/2024 … John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers play is extending its West End run for a second time.