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12/10/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
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Sun 12 October 2025
© Aemen Sukkar Jiksaw John Bishop goes back to where it all started...
The best of the week's live comedy
12/10/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,851 events Chortle currently has listed.
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Human rights organisations reject donations from comics who played Riyadh
12/10/2025 … Comedians hoping to salve their conscience over their Riyadh Comedy Festival performances by donating some of their fee to a human rights charity have been told:…
Fri 10 October 2025
© Karla Gowlett The latest tool of Russian propaganda is... Geoff Norcott
Comic's likeness is deepfaked in Armenian disinformation campaign
10/10/2025 … Geoff Norcott has been turned into a deepfake by the Russian propaganda machine.
C4 announces star-studded festive comedy Dear Father Christmas
Lenny Rush, Greg Davies, Asim Chaudhry and more
10/10/2025 … Lenny Rush, Greg Davies, Asim Chaudhry and James Buckley are to star in a Channel 4 festive comedy-drama entitled Dear Father Christmas, it was announced today.
Max Olesker writes a memoir about coverting to Orthodox Judaism in the name of love
First book from comedian behind the Clash Of The Comics wrestling extravaganza
10/10/2025 … Comedian Max Olesker has written a memoir about converting to Orthodox Judaism in the name of love.
© Channel 4/Expectation David Baddiel is Cat Man
Comic makes a series about feline friends
10/10/2025 … David Baddiel is to follow up his powerful Channel 4 polemic about antisemitism – with a new series about cats.
Spitting Image shows what it thinks of the Paddington writ
New sketch responds to lawsuit
10/10/2025 … Spitting Image has responded to the legal action launched by Paddington’s copyright-owners… with a new sketch mocking them.