Roll with the Funches

The best of the week's live comedy

23/08/2026 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.

Fringe 2026 on air

The best of the week's comedy on TV, and radio

23/08/2026 … Our pick of the slim choices for comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.

Comic Mike Newall has brain haemorrhage

Crowdfunder launched in support

22/08/2026 … Stand-up Mike Newall has suffered a brain haemorrhage while on holiday in Wales.

Leicester Comedy Festival charity's debts exceed £215,000

And many creditors appear missing from official list

22/08/2026 … The company behind Leicester Comedy Festival collapsed with debts of at least £215,000.

ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards longlist 60 Fringe shows

21/08/2026 … The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards have announced their longlists of 60 Fringe acts in the running for this year’s awards: 39 for best show, 21 for best newcomer.

Comedian fined £2,500 for calling a woman fat from the stage

Israeli court rules that the exchange was defamation

20/08/2026 … A comedian has been ordered to pay almost £2,500 to a woman he mocked as fat from the stage A Tel Aviv court found that Vova Tamarkin’s comments went…

Olaf Falafel wins the (Some Guy Called) Dave Joke of the Fringe

Are these the best one-liners at the Edinburgh festival?

19/08/2026 … Comedian Olaf Falafel has won the (Some Guy Called) Dave Joke of the Fringe 2026 with the line: ’I remember thinking, as I taped a piranha to my boomerang,…

Taskmaster series 22 air date confirmed

Show returns next month

19/08/2026 … Channel 4 has confirmed that Taskmaster will return at 10pm on September 3.