Get a first look at clips from the revived Mock The Week
...and it's remarkably similar to the old one!
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Can Jon Richardson save a pub?
Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this…
Edinburgh winner Sam hits the road
The best of the week's live comedy, picked from…
Amanda & Alan’s renovation show to return
Alan Carr is to make another series of his property…
Dom Joly announces Trigger Happy TV tour
Dom Joly is going on tour to mark 25 years of Trigger…
Stephen Merchant to star in a romcom opposite Cameron Diaz
Stephen Merchant is to star in a rom-com opposite…
Fatiha El-Ghorri announces her first tour
Fatiha El-Ghorri has announced her debut stand-up show…
After 43 years, Banana Cabaret slips away
London’s Banana Cabaret comedy club – one of the oldest in the UK and…
Second series for Pierre Novellie's Radio 4 show
Radio 4 has ordered a second series of Why In The Name Of Pierre Novellie? The…
Comedy clubs CAN benefit from pubs' aid package
Comedy clubs will benefit from a new government business rates package, it has been…
Apple TV has renewed Shrinking for a fourth series, before the third…
Tim Key and Tom Basden are up for Baftas
The Ballad of Wallis Island has racked up three nominations in this year’s…
Geoff Norcott’s Radio 4 show to return
Geoff Norcott’s Working Men’s Club – the comic’s stand-up…
Tour news
Features
What was the name of Jamie Lee Curtis's character in Trading Places?
Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled –…
The fear of nobody turning up
There’s a specific kind of terror that only comedians who put on their own…
I guess I'm usually pretty stressed about something...
Ian Smith received an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination for his 2023 show Crushing…
What was the rival club in Phoenix Nights?
Test your knowledge of Phoenix Nights, as Peter Kay's sitcom celebrates its 25th…
Reviews
The Cambridge Footlights: A Very British Comedy Institution by Robert Sellers
Probably the most illustrious and best known nursery…
Leicester Square Theatre’s New Comedian Of The Year 2025
Leicester Square Theatre’s New Comedian Of The…
Live comedy picks
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Wednesday 4 Feb from 19:30 - 22:00Book now
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Tuesday 3 Feb from 19:30 - 22:00Book now
Gig of the day
Deirdre O'Kane: O'Kaning It
Dublin 3Olympia Theatre
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Mo Gilligan: The Mo You Know
Oxford New Theatre
Friday 6th Feb from 20:00Book now
Coming Soon
Bridget Christie: Jacket Potato Pizza
Mold Theatr Clwyd
Thursday 5th Feb
Other news
Eddie Kadi to host the Mobos again
Eddie Kadi will return as host of the Mobo Awards this…
Three more appointments have been announced for the…
Mark Thomas and Marcel Lucont join Also Festival
The Also Festival has unveiled its comedy programme for 2026, with political stand-up…
Olga Koch and Catherine Bohart launch a Heated Rivalry podcast
Olga Koch and Catherine Bohart have started a daily podcast about the TV series Heated…
Lisa Clark to oversee Saturday Night Live UK
Sky has appointed former Top Gear showrunner Lisa Clark to oversee the UK remake…
York Comedy Festival announces 2026 line-up
Some of Britain's best-known comedians will perform at the one-day York Comedy…
Samantha Baines becomes patron of theatre captioning charity
Comedian Samantha Baines has been appointed patron of Stagetext, a charity that provides…
A podcast worth going out for?
Stand-up comedians Harriet Dyer, Lindsey Santoro and Amy Mason are launching a podcast…
Punching Up
Jamie Demetriou becomes a father
Jamie Demetriou has become a father for the first time – making Steve Coogan a grandfather. The Stath Lets Flats comic’s partner is Clare Cole,…
Want to dress like you're in Benidorm?
If you’ve ever wanted to dress up as your favourite…
Keir Starmer mocks Emmanuel Macron at Matt Forde's gig
Between blocking potential leadership rivals and jetting…
Iain Stirling: I turned down Love Island loads of times
Iain Stirling had told how he turned down being the…
Videos
Donald Trump is changing things up in Minnesota to ‘calm the recent violence against his poll numbers’ – so says Colin Jost on last night’s Saturday Night Live.
Meanwhile his co-host Michael Che urged the president to stop pursing his lies that the 2020 election was rigged, joking: ‘Let it go. Even Hitler stopped trying to get into art school at some point…’
Meanwhile, Sarah Sherman reports on the weather…
Weekend Update on chaos in Minnesota
With Colin Jost and Michael Che
UK host tries to 'explain' America
From Broken News
Jamie Demetriou on Late Night with Seth Meyers
...and it went better than last time
I Think My Girlfriend Might Be AI
By Brett Domino