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The best of the week's live comedy
07/09/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 7,006 events Chortle currently has listed.
2025 Archives
Sun 07 September 2025
© Channel 4/Avalon Taskmaster returns for its 20th series
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
07/09/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday September 8 PETER SELLERS AT SEA: On what would have been the 100th birthday of…
© Iain Masterton / Alamy Stock Photo Graham Linehan has his X ban lifted
Crowdfunder raises £150,000 for his lawyers' fees
07/09/2025 … Graham Linehan has returned to X after the Free Speech Union campaigned to have his bail conditions loosened.
Sat 06 September 2025
© Ian West/PA News/Alamy James Corden and Ruth Jones in '£8m Apple deal'
Bid to recreate the Gavin & Stacey magic
06/09/2025 … Gavin & Stacey creators James Corden and Ruth Jones are reportedly working on a new comedy-drama for Apple TV+.
Olivia Colman back with Mitchell & Webb
Peep Show team reunited in new sketch
06/09/2025 … Olivia Colman has been reunite with her Peep Show co-stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb in this sketch from the duo’s new Channel 4 comedy show.
Fri 05 September 2025
© PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo Graham Linehan: 'You’re trying to make out I’m a bigot'
Father Ted writer gives evidence in his harassment trial
05/09/2025 … Father Ted creator Graham Linehan told police he threw a teenage trans activist's phone into the road because she taunted him over his divorce.
Introducing the toilet
From Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping
05/09/2025 … Channel 4 have released a second sketch from tonight’s launch episode of Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping.
© Rob Parfitt / Channel 4 Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping
Review of duo's return to sketch comedy
05/09/2025 … Conventional wisdom has it that the TV sketch show is dead – even as viewers gobble up short-form content online.