Katherine Ryan joins The Bad Guys 2
Katherine Ryan has voiced a cameo role in the new action-comedy animation, The…
Filming starts on Dinosaur series 2
Filming has begun on the second series of Ashley Storrie’s…
The manic show which says: Edinburgh Fringe is nearly here
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Filming starts on series two of We Might Regret This
Filming has begun on the second series of the BBC Two…
Judi Love announces a new tour
Judi Love has announced her second UK stand-up tour,…
Mathew Horne to star in Britpop play
Mathew Horne is to play a Britpop music executive in…
'The world is a duller place without her'
Tributes have been paid to TV comedy producer Joanna Beresford following her death…
Succession's Brian Cox announces tour
Succession star Brian Cox has announced his first one-man show It’s All About…
Barcelona gets a new comedy club
Barcelona is getting a new purpose-built comedy venue, offering shows in English. American…
The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle…
Putting the trans in transgression
Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Sunday June…
BriTANicK get to make a movie... thanks to the Edinburgh Fringe
American comedy duo BriTANicK are writing and directing their first film – thanks…
Tour news
Features
'I'm going to push even more boundaries this time around'
Kat Sadler’s sitcom Such Brave Girls – in which she stars as Josie alongside…
'It's really disorienting!'
Lena Dunham has found great success by mining her own experiences for comedy –…
In Extras, which celebrity does Andy Millman play tennis with?
Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled –…
'Some of the sharpest, scariest and funniest character comedy I’ve seen'
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Reviews
LGBTQ+ New Comedian Of The Year 2025
I hadn’t been to a final of the LGBTQ+ New…
Live comedy picks
Gig of the day
Tim Minchin: Songs The World Will Never Hear
Oxford New Theatre
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Ian Smith: Foot Spa Half Empty
Leeds Hyde Park Book Club
Sunday 6th Jul from 19:30Book now
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Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf
Royal Festival Hall
Sunday 6th Jul from 15:30
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Jo Caulfield: Here Comes Trouble
Nairn Community and Arts Centre
Saturday 12th Jul from 19:00Book now
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Kae Kurd: What's O'Kurd
Cardiff Glee Club
Wednesday 24th Sep from 19:30Book now
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The Political Party with Matt Forde
Duchess Theatre
Monday 14th Jul from 19:30Book now
Other news
Alan Partridge is back in the oasthouse
The fourth series of From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast…
Altitude announces its 2026 line-up
Alpine comedy festival Altitude has announced its 2025…
Bert Kreischer to make a Netflix sitcom
Netflix is making a new comedy centred on the life of American comedian Bert Kreischer. The…
Tickets released for Hitchhiker's Guide live show
Tickets have gone on sale for The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy live show…
Rob Beckett cancels Scottish gigs
Rob Beckett has cancelled two gigs in Scotland this week after falling ill. The…
Abi Clarke turn zookeeper in new podcast
Abi Clarke is launching a new podcast in which she learns what it takes to be a zookeeper. The…
Joel Dommett and Michelle Wolf join Latitude
Joel Dommett and Michelle Wolf have joined the comedy line-upat Latitude Festival. The…
Peter Kay to launch his new memoirs with Sara Cox
Peter Kay is to appear in conversation with fellow Bolton-born star Sara Cox at two…
Punching Up
America's surprising comedy powerhouse
It won’t come as much of a surprise, but New York has been named America’s capital of comedy. But more surprising is that tiny Rhode Island has come…
Do you remember the first time?
Pulp ignited a lot of nostalgia on Saturday when…
When Smith and Jones played Live Aid
It has gone down as one of the best performances in…
A mural of Still Game character Winston Ingram has…
Videos
Working people need to lower their unrealistic expectation that doing a job might be able to sustain a half-decent lifestyle.
That’s the view of those who know best – the super-rich.
Broken News has the story… although time spent watching it is time you really should be spending working to keep your head above water:
Working people need to 'lower expectations'
Broken News reports
By Eleanor Morton
From Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee
First look at Steve Coogan as Ireland manager Mick McCarthy
New film Saipan tells of his bust-up with captain Ray…