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The best of the week's live comedy
30/08/2026 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
2026 Archives
Sun 30 August 2026
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The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
30/08/2026 … Our pick of the slim choices for comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
Mark Vigeant: Out There
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
30/08/2026 … A hopeless wannabe influencer is dropped off alone in the Alaskan wilderness in Mark Vigeant’s new show, strapped to a livestreaming camera and seemingly destined…
2026 Malcolm Hardee Award winners announced
ASMR show scoops 'comic originality' prize
30/08/2026 … The winners of the Malcolm Hardee Awards, named in memory of the audacious comic and promoter, have been announced.
Sat 29 August 2026
Leo Hincks: Emotional Cowboy
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
29/08/2026 … When Leo Hincks entered the Chortle Student Comedy Award in 2024, at the age of 22, and received his first journalistic write-up, the praise that was heaped…
© Lila Cobryn Evaldas Karosas: A Very Capable Man
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
29/08/2026 … Evaldas Karosas is from Lithuania – and if you've made up some stereotypes of the Baltic state based on absolutely nothing, you're not alone, as he…
Rob Duncan: Printer of the Year
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
29/08/2026 … Rob Duncan’s long-gestating solo show Printer Of The Year may be niche in the extreme, as he’s willing to admit, but it’s also one of the most…
Sapphire McIntosh: Squeaky Bum Time
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
29/08/2026 … Sapphire McIntosh offers a standard biographical Fringe debut, offering a chronological journey through her life so far, from her precarious early days to an only…