The best of last year's Edinburgh Fringe... and this year's?
Pick of the week's live comedy
26/01/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 7,528 events Chortle currently has listed.
2025 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 26 January 2025
Online comedians move to Radio 4
...and John Kearns returns to House Of Games
26/01/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming in what's another quiet week for new laughs…: Monday January 27 RICHARD OSMAN’S HOUSE OF…
Sat 25 January 2025
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JoJo Maberly wins Bristol Comedy Competition
25/01/2025 … JoJo Maberly has been crowned winner of the first Bristol Comedy Competition.
Omid Djalili to take a psychic look at history
Comic joins 'spiritual sleuth' for new Sky programme
25/01/2025 … Omid Djalili is to front a new Sky show that uses a psychic to tap into the ‘energies’ of the battlefield and perform a ‘healing ritual’.
Fri 24 January 2025
© BBC/Balloon Entertainment/Colin Hutton Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield to play Galton & Simpson
New drama about the Steptoe And Son writers' early days
24/01/2025 … Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse are to portray comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson in a new radio play.
UK publication for novel about a debauched, divorced road comedian
Sam Tallent’s Running The Light out in May
24/01/2025 … A novel inspired by American stand-up Sam Tallent’s life as a road comic is to get a UK release.
Kevin Hart announces UK dates for 2025
In Belfast, Manchester, Birmingham and London
24/01/2025 … Kevin Hart has announced five UK dates for his stand-up tour Acting My Age.
Thu 23 January 2025
It's Winston Church-Hal!
Comic Cruttenden to play the wartime leader
23/01/2025 … Hal Cruttenden is to play Winston Churchill in a new film based on the origins of the welfare state.