Anisa Nandaula: No Small Talk
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
06/04/2026 … No Small Talk is something of a misnomer for Anisa Nandaula given she loves chit-chat with her audience.
2026 Archives
Mon 06 April 2026
Sun 05 April 2026
© BBC Ian Fletcher – and Taskmaster – return
The week's best comedy on TV and radio
05/04/2026 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
Gary Delaney starts another mammoth tour
The best of the week's live comedy
05/04/2026 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
Elliot Wood: Mrs Lovett’s Famous Meat Pies Grand Reopening Extravaganza
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
05/04/2026 … By way of events that needn’t concern us, Nellie Lovett – the accomplice of Sweeney Todd who used the demon barber’s victims to fill her pies – …
Abby Howells: The Cave
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
05/04/2026 … There is a slight otherworldly edge to Abby Howells – a kookiness born from not quite understanding things in the same way as everyone else, enhanced…
SNL UK takes on The Traitors
Just who is the great big crab man?
05/04/2026 … Saturday Night Live UK last night took on the unconscious racial bias apparently shown by players of The Traitors.
Operation: A party game with a problem
05/04/2026 … Riz Ahmed becomes obsessed with the game Operation in this sketch from last night’s Saturday Night Live.
SNL UK: Sir Keir Starmer inspires the nation
With the aid of Olivia Colman, Harry Kane and Peppa Pig
05/04/2026 … Keir Starmer has called on some British icons to try to inspire the nation – because he can’t.