FOURTEEN stand-up tours kick off this week
06/09/2026 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,112 events Chortle currently has listed.
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All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 06 September 2026
Colin From Accounts back for a third and final series
The week's comedy on TV, radio and streaming
06/09/2026 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
Sat 05 September 2026
Veteran BBC comedy man Ted Taylor writes his memoirs
He created The Men From The Ministry and gave Paul Merton his break
05/09/2026 … A 95-year-old blind veteran who wrote for Morecambe and Wise and The Two Ronnies, helped launch Paul Merton’s broadcasting career and created the hit BBC comedy…
Phoenix Nights stars head back to the club where it was filmed
25th anniversary tour visits Bolton
05/09/2026 … Some of the cast of Phoenix Nights are returning to the club where the sitcom was filmed for a live show.
© The Comedy Unit BBC Scotland axes The Chief
No third series for Jack Docherty comedy
05/09/2026 … BBC Scotland has axed police sitcom The Chief.
Fri 04 September 2026
Russell Howard reveals his son died hours after birth
As comedian and his wife set up a charity in his memory
04/09/2026 … Russell Howard has revealed that his and his wife Cerys’s son, Felix, died just hours after being born.
© Studiocanal/Alamy Richard O'Sullivan dies at 82
Man About The House and Robin's Nest star
04/09/2026 … Sitcom star Richard O'Sullivan, best known for playing lovable chef-in-training Robin Tripp in Man About the House and Robin's Nest, has died…
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