In-the-red Leicester
Comedy festival defaults on paying comedians
20/04/2026 … Hundreds of comedians have been left unpaid by The Leicester Comedy Festival, up to 75 days after they performed there.
Mon 20 April 2026
© Channel 4/Avalon Alex Horne's new Channel 4 task show
20/04/2026 … Taskmaster creator Alex Horne could be setting families a series of challenges in a new Channel 4 series currently under development.
© BBC/Hat Trick Laura Smyth joins Celebrity Apprentice
Comedian among those trying to impress Lord Sugar
20/04/2026 … Stand-up Laura Smyth is taking part in the first full series of Celebrity Apprentice.
© HBO Is James Acaster doing Celebrity Traitors?
20/04/2026 … James Acaster is reportedly taking part in the next series of The Celebrity Traitors.
Sun 19 April 2026
First tour for Taskmaster's Fatiha El-Ghorri
The best of the week's live comedy
19/04/2026 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© Karla Gowlett Geoff Norcott's Radio 4 show returns
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
19/04/2026 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
Dan Tiernan: Quartz And All
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
19/04/2026 … If you’ve never seen Dan Tiernan before, it might be hard to believe this new show, premiering at Melbourne, is his least intense to date.
Alex Hines & Sarah Stafford: Birds
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
19/04/2026 … In Shayna and Beverley – two ladies of leisure sunning themselves on adjacent beach loungers – Alex Hines and Sarah Stafford have created a pair…