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.
Wed 29 October 2025
Tue 28 October 2025
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.
Mon 27 October 2025
Kirkstall Abbey Comedy Festival to return
Big stars head to Leeds landmark
27/10/2025 … The Kirkstall Abbey Comedy Festival is to return to the Leeds landmark next summer, it has been announced.
Bristol Comedy Festival to return
Grassroots events back for a second edition in January
27/10/2025 … The Bristol Comedy Festival will return for its second edition in January, organisers have announced.
Fri 24 October 2025
Masked agents snatch comedy club manager
24/10/2025 … The night manager of the Chicago Laugh Factory has been taken into custody by US federal agents.
© Rebel Wilson Jennifer Coolidge and Nicole Scherzinger join Rebel Wilson’s Girl Group.
24/10/2025 … Jennifer Coolidge and Nicole Scherzinger have joined Rebel Wilson’s new comedy Girl Group.
Thu 23 October 2025
Exposé of 21Soho's failure to pay comedians is up for a journalism award
...for its writer Rachael Healy
23/10/2025 … A report into London comedy venue 21Soho failing to pay its acts has earned its writer a nomination in the British Journalism Awards.