© Harriet Langford/Dish from Waitrose Jamali Maddix: I cried before my first stand-up gig
29/10/2025 … Jamali Maddix has admitted crying before his first stand-up gig – but he was only five years old.
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Wed 29 October 2025
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Beat the Frog 2025 finalists announced
Showdown at Manchester’s Frog and Bucket on Monday
29/10/2025 … Manchester’s Frog and Bucket Comedy Club has announced the ten finalists for its annual Beat the Frog World Series final.
Graham Norton becomes an Edinburgh Fringe ambassador
34 years after he made his festival debt
29/10/2025 … Graham Norton named as an ambassador of the Edinburgh Fringe.
Leicester Festival back to celebrate 'the art of comedy'
More than 700 shows in 2026 programme
29/10/2025 … Leicester Comedy Festival has announced that its 2026 theme will be The Art of Comedy, celebrates humour ‘as a true art form, standing alongside theatre,…
Only Murders In The Building comes to London
29/10/2025 … Only Murders In The Building is heading to London.
Tue 28 October 2025
Another comedy tour bonanza
Nine announced in the last 36 hours
28/10/2025 … Nine comedy tours have been announced in the last 36 hours, including Taskmaster stars Mike Wozniak and Maisie Adam, and podcast king Adam Rowe.
BBC to rerun Fawlty Towers episode
28/10/2025 … An episode of Fawlty Towers is to air on BBC One tonight in tribute to Prunella Scales, following her death yesterday at the age of 83.
Kate Berlant returns to the UK
Two Soho Theatre Walthamstow dates announced
28/10/2025 … American comedian Kate Berlant is to play the Soho Theatre Walthamstow next year, playing to her biggest audience yet in the UK.