The week's best live comedy

The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 7.618 events Chortle currently has listed.  Use our  search panel to check out our full listings by date and region.  

Sunday March 6

MANCHESTER: Hannah Gadsby begins a brief UK tour with her new show, Body Of Work, which she promises will be more playful and more storytelling-based than her hard-hitting breakthrough show Nanette, or the personal and polemical Douglas which followed it. Stops in Glasgow, Brighton, Edinburgh and London follow.

NORWICH: Dylan Moran launches his new show, We Got This,with three nights at the Playhouse. Described as a ‘joyously furious romp through the frustration and folly of modern-day life’, it will keep the Black Books star on the road until at least the summer.  Dylan Moran tour dates

Monday March 7

LONDON:  The Backyard Comedy Club hosts a packed benefit for the  Young Roots charity for young refugees, featuring Iain Stirling, Jen Brister, Jenny Bede, Jessica Fostekew, Michael Odewale, Toussaint Douglass and  Esther Manito.

Tuesday March 8

LONDON: The first of several big-name comedy fundraisers being staged to help the Ukrainian humanitarian crisis is being staged at the Comedy Store tonight. James Acaster, Joe Lycett and Nish Kumar are the marquee names atop a bill that also includes Nina Conti, Sindhu Vee Alistair Barrie, Dimitri Bakanov, Olga Koch and  Sarah Keyworth,  Live tickets have understandably sold out, but it will also be streamed on NextUp here.

MANCHESTER:  Meanwhile,  the Frog and Bucket  will be holding an International Women's Day fundraiser for Women's Aid featuring Bethany Black, Erika Ehler, Jessica Fostekew, Lou Conran and  Eryn Tett. 

Thursday March 10

LONDON: Christopher Bliss, the pisspoor, delusional crime novelist created by comedian Rob Carter begins a three-night run at the Soho Theatre with the dramatically titled  The Man Who Turns Wives Into Widows. Though he’s utterly useless, there’s a charm to Bliss’s misplaced positivity that delights.

Friday March 11

LONDON: Tim Key begins a sporadic late-night run of his lockdown themed show Mulberry at the Arts Theatre, in which he  ‘will plod about in his velour tracksuit/read his little poems/bleat etc.’

GREENOCK: Scot Squad and Absolutely star Jack Docherty starts a tour of his storytelling show, Nothing But,  in which he grapples with lost youth, infatuation, fatherhood, sex and secrets. In many ways it’s a love letter to the Edinburgh Fringe, where it debuted last summer.  Jack Docherty tour dates and review.

Published: 6 Mar 2022