The best of the week's live comedy

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

Monday April 18

MANCHESTER: An unmissable bill of comics stage a major fundraiser for the victims of the war in Ukraine at the O2 Apollo tonight, featuring Johnny Vegas, Jason Manford, Les Dennis,Dave Spikey, Kiri Pritchard-McLean and many more - including organisers John Thomson and Justin Moorhouse. They said, 'Everyone has been shocked, saddened and powerless by what's been happening in Ukraine over the past few weeks. We knew we had to help out one of our own, Ukrainian president and former comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy and all those affected by conflict by putting on a very special show to raise money for the Legacy of War Foundation.' Tickets are available here.

LONDON: Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast is back, with guest Dara O Briain.

Wednesday April 20

ST ALBANS: Sandi Toksvig launches her new tour, Next Slide Please…, which promises reasons to be cheerful, including fascinatingly funny facts, silly jokes, and a quick-fire Q&A. Chris Whitty not included. Sandi Toksvig tour dates.

Friday April 22

BELFAST: Alan Partridge is back with Strategem, a live stage show that promises to 'inform, educate and entertain in approximately equal measure'. Wearing a head-mic favoured by TED talkers, market hawkers, TV evangelists, backing singers and carnival barkers, Alan combines all these roles and more in his manifesto for the way we can move forward, a roadmap to a better tomorrow, an ABC for the way to be. At least that's what the blurb says… Alan Partridge tour dates – and Coogan talks about the show here

LONDON: The My Dad Wrote A Porno team start a five-night run at the London Palladium ahead of a wider UK tour. Jamie Morton reads his father's meisterwerk with James Cooper and Alice Levine adding the sarcastic commentary, as the tens of millions of listeners to their podcast know only too well. My Dad Wrote A Porno tour dates.

Published: 17 Apr 2022