Bolton gets its first comedy festival
With Dara O Briain, Dylan Moran, Emmanuel Sonubi and Catherine Bohart
31/03/2024 … Bolton’s Octagon Theatre has announced the town’s first comedy festival.
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Sun 31 March 2024
© ITV Newport's Festival Of Comedy returns for a fourth year
31/03/2024 … The Giggling Goat Festival Of Comedy is returning to Tredegar Park for a fourth year, it has been announced.
© Rangabee Aisling Bea joins Avoidance
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
31/03/2024 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Easter Sunday WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS ROADS:Jamali Maddix and Larry Dean travel to…
Mocking the romcom
The best of the week's live comedy
31/03/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the more than 7,000 events Chortle currently has listed.
Sat 30 March 2024
Susie McCabe wins the Sir Billy Connolly Award
For encapsulating the spirit of Glasgow
30/03/2024 … Susie McCabe has won the second Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award, it was announced at the city’s comedy festival.
Fri 29 March 2024
Comedy promoter and compere Alan Seaman dies
Stand-ups pay tribute to an 'all-round lovely man'
29/03/2024 … Tributes have been paid to comedy promoter and compere Alan Seaman following his death after a short illness.
Thu 28 March 2024
Book deal for Adrian Bliss
History– as told by inconsequential bystanders
28/03/2024 … Comedian Adrian Bliss has signed a book deal to write The Greatest Nobodies Of History – a retelling of humanity’s greatest moments, as told by some…
Lachlan Werner announces debut tour
Voices Of Evil earned him a Chortle Award nomination
28/03/2024 … Comedy ventriloquist Lachlan Werner – the self-appointed ‘poof prince of puppets’ – is taking his debut show on short tour of the UK this…