Come and marvel as a man describes a room!
17/05/2026 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
Sun 17 May 2026
Distribution deal for star-studded UK comedy
Big ensemble cast in Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint
17/05/2026 … A cast of British comedy stars will feature in a ‘warm, uplifting and genuinely funny’ festive comedy film called Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint.
Looking Theroux the Mirror
17/05/2026 … In a Travelodge in Bromsgrove, Louis Theroux interviews the one person he’s never managed to before.
Sat 16 May 2026
© BBC/James Stack Photography When Gavin and Stacey wasn't so unforgettable...
Alison Steadman at the BBC Comedy Festival
16/05/2026 … It became the biggest comedy on British TV, but Gavin and Stacey had a modest start on BBC Three – and certainly didn’t have the brand recognition…
More comedians join Judd Apatow's The Comeback King.
Appearing alongside Glen Powell and Li Jin Hao
16/05/2026 … A host of fellow comedians have joined Li Jin Hao in the upcoming Judd Apatow movie The Comeback King.
Fri 15 May 2026
© Damian Bennett Tim Minchin to write new Chitty Chitty Bang Bang songs
Reuniting with his Matilda collaborator Matthew Warchus
15/05/2026 … Tim Minchin is writing the songs for a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang remake.
© Stephanie Gibson Josie Long's axed Short Cuts to return
Radio 4 documentary strand back from the dead with new backers
15/05/2026 … The BBC is bringing back Josie Long’s Radio 4 series Short Cuts – less than two years after axing it.
© BBC/James Stack Photography Not Going Out scrapped a Bobby Ball tribute episode as it was 'too sad'
Lee Mack talks about the sitcom, and maybe turning it into a play
15/05/2026 … Lee Mack wrote an episode of Not Going Out based around the funeral of Bobby Ball’s character – but scrapped it because it was too sad.