First tour for Taskmaster's Fatiha El-Ghorri
The best of the week's live comedy
19/04/2026 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
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Sun 19 April 2026
© Karla Gowlett Geoff Norcott's Radio 4 show returns
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
19/04/2026 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
Sat 18 April 2026
Celia Pacquola wins Melbourne's top award
18/04/2026 … Celia Pacquola has won the biggest prize in Australian live comedy.
Fri 17 April 2026
© Andy Hollingworth Kevin Bridges makes a World Cup documentary
About the state of football as Scotland return to the tournament
17/04/2026 … Kevin Bridges is to make a documentary about the state of modern football, timed to coincide with Scotland’s return to the World Cup for the first time in…
Eric Idle's 55 years in Provence
Python comic writes a memoir about renovation a French property
17/04/2026 … Eric Idle has written a book about the half century he has spent trying to turn a ramshackle property in the south of France into his dream home.
© Scottish Government/CC BY-SA 2.0 SNP promises a minimum wage for comedians
Party set to follow Ireland's £14,700-a-year plan
17/04/2026 … Comedians in Scotland are set to be guaranteed an annual salary of around £15,000 a year if the SNP returns to power in Holyrood, the party has vowed.
Thu 16 April 2026
© Nathan Macgee Steve Coogan joins Funboys
Playing a 'pompous, cruel and petty' man
16/04/2026 … Steve Coogan has joined the second series of BBC comedy Funboys.
James Acaster to star in his first video game
Marble adventure Perchang World drops next month
16/04/2026 … James Acaster has lent his voice to a new video game.