Still afloat after all these years
London's Boat Show celebrates its quarter-century and the rest of the week's live comedy picks
30/03/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
Sun 30 March 2025
Sat 29 March 2025
© Trevor Leighton How Jack Whitehall became a comic DESPITE his godfather
Nigel Havers did nothing to encourage the comic's ambitions
29/03/2025 … Jack Whitehall has had a pretty good comedy career – but with no help from his godfather, Nigel Havers.
James Acaster's car-crash comedy
Comic tried stand-up after compiling a bucket list after a road accident
29/03/2025 … James Acaster has told how he took up comedy as part of a ‘bucket list’ after he was in a serious car smash.
Anna completes the Chortle Student Comedy Award final line-up
Oxford PhD candidate wins the People's Choice place
29/03/2025 … Anna Rae George has been selected as the last finalist in this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award following a public vote.
© Ellis O Brien Jenny Eclair: Jokes, Jokes Jokes
Review of comedian's show inspired by her memoirs
29/03/2025 … Just before the interval a flash of insecurity crosses Jenny Eclair’s mind.
Fri 28 March 2025
The Iceman: The Final Block
Alternative comedy pioneer coaxed out of retirement
28/03/2025 … The Iceman is surely the act most widely cited to illustrated the weird and wonderful state of the fertile post-punk alternative cabaret circuit which birthed the…
Sky announces new series of comedy shorts
With Kae Kurd, Andrew Mensah, Kyrah Gray annd Stevo The Madman.
28/03/2025 … Sky has announced four new series of digital shorts featuring comedians Kae Kurd, Andrew Mensah and Kyrah Gray, plus internet personality Stevo The Madman.
Am I Being Unreasonable? Series 2 bloopers
28/03/2025 … The BBC has released a reel of bloopers from the second series of Am I Being Unreasonable? With a title borrowed from the Mumsnet message board,…