© PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo Apply to perform at the Rik Mayall comedy festival
Comedians sought for second annual event
10/11/2025 … The Rik Mayall comedy festival is inviting comedians to apply for the 2026 event.
2025 Archives
Mon 10 November 2025
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© Banjay Alan Carr saved my life
Cleo Rocos tells of how he fended off a knife-wielding attacker
10/11/2025 … Alan Carr saved the life of actress Cleo Rocos by fending off a knife-wielding attacker.
© BBC/Studio Lambert Celebrity Traitors will return
No surprise as hit reality series recomissioned
10/11/2025 … The Celebrity Traitors will return for a second series on BBC One – in a much-needed bit of good news for the beleaguered broadcaster.
Sun 09 November 2025
Insider comedy from Luke McQueen's Comedian's Comedian
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
09/11/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,256 events Chortle currently has listed.
Darren Harriott's dad took his own life in jail... now the comic reflects on fatherhood
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
09/11/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
Pete Davidson returns to Saturday Night Live
For the Weekend Update segment
09/11/2025 … Pete Davidson returned to Saturday Night Live last night, joining the Weekend Update desk.
SNL on Trump's Oval Office press conference
With James Austin Johnson as the President
09/11/2025 … Saturday Night Live recreated the moment Donald Trump stood and stared ‘like a sociopath’ when a healthcare executive collapsed in the Oval Office for…
© BBC Studios Theatre to be renamed in Victoria Wood's honour
...in her beloved Lake Distict
09/11/2025 … Victoria Wood is to have a theatre named in her honour in her beloved Lake District.