Hasan Al-Habib and Ashley Blaker make a Pilgrimage
Comics in next series of BBC faith show
08/02/2026 … Comedians Hasan Al-Habib and Ashley Blaker are taking part in the next series of Pilgrimage.
Sun 08 February 2026
John Kearns is back on tour
The best of the week's live comedy
08/02/2026 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,391 events Chortle currently has listed.
What Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee did next...
The week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
08/02/2026 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
Comic axed for joking about the killing of Renee Good
08/02/2026 … USA: A comic dropped from a Minnesota comedy club after joking about the killing of Renee Good in the state is demanding compensation.
Fri 06 February 2026
Mock The Week on the Epstein Files and the Melania film
06/02/2026 … The Epstein Files provide more fodder for Mock The Week when the revived panel show returns on Sunday, New series regular Rhys James says of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s…
Mark Simmons: Jest To Impress
Review of the pun-slinging comic on tour
06/02/2026 … Mark Simmons lives up to the wordplay behind his Jest To Impress title by taking to the stage in formal black tie – which turns out to be a set-up for a joke…
How Rich Hall sparked a streaking epidemic
...as he hosts a new podcast on the topic
06/02/2026 … Rich Hall is hosting a new BBC podcast about streakers – and reveals he once ran naked across his university campus.
Shakespeare’s mum
06/02/2026 … Who was William Shakespeare’s toughest critic? Surely his mum At least that how Eleanor Morton imagines it, with Mrs Shakespeare doling out unasked for…