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The best of the week's live comedy

The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 7,252 events Chortle currently has listed. Use our search panel to check our full listings by date and region.

Monday February 26

LONDON: Comic Relief are hosting a massive gig at the London Palladium with acts including Aisling Bea, Joel Dommett, Lenny Henry, Mawaan Rizwan, Rosie Jones and Sara Pascoe. There are a few tickets left here

LONDON: It's heat 4 of this year's Chortle Student Comedy Award at Aces And Eights in Tufnell Park tonight (tickets) followed by shows in York, Salford and Coventry's Warwick University on the next three nights. Click here for the full schedule of where you can see some potential stars of the future…

Tuesday February 27

LONDON: Lucy & Friends offers a wild, outrageous ride through the mind of powerhouse cabaret performance artist Lucy McCormick. She begins a run of this show unlike any other at the Soho Theatre tonight, ending on March 16, attempting to create community through a celebration of silliness. Read our review from last year's Edinburgh Fringe here.

SOUTHEND: Leigh Francis stars his first ever live tour, featuring telly characters including Keith Lemon, Avid Merrion, The Bear and Amanda Holden's Gran. Leigh Francis tour dates

Wednesday February 28

LIVINGSTON: Continuing to defy the threat of being cancelled, Jerry Sadowitz starts a new tour of his Comedian, Magician, Psychopath show with a run of Scottish dates before heading south of the border next month. Jerry Sadowitz tour dates.

MANCHESTER: One of the best debuts at last year's Edinburgh Fringe, Dan Tiernan's intense Going Under show comes to the Frog and Bucket tonight, Edinburgh's Monkey Barrel tomorrow and Glasgow's Stand on Sunday.

LONDON: Adam Hills, Janine Harouni, Jon Richardson, Russell Kane, Seann Walsh gather at the Comedy Store for the sold-out Children's Trust comedy night

Thursday February 29

CHELMSFORD: There's a good night in store at The Lion Inn, featuring two comics who did rather well on Britain's Got Talent – funny magician Mandy Muden and gag-rich storyteller Markus Birdman – along with highly entertaining musical comic Rob Deering.

Friday March 1

BRISTOL: Political journalist and Times Radio presenter Matt Chorley goes on tour with his third stand-up tour, Poll Dancer, focussing on the goings-on in Westminster. Matt Chorley tour dates.

Saturday March 2

LONDON: A big night of comedy at Islington's Union Chapel tonight with Bridget Christie – creator of Channel 4 comedy The Change – brilliantly off-the-wall musical comic David O'Doherty, and sharply sardonic Rhys James.

LONDON: And at Earth in Hackney there's a double-bill of high-octane comedy with Olga Koch's hilariously confessional Prawn Cocktail and Helen Bauer's force-of-nature celebration of the women, Grand Supreme Darling Princess

CANTERBURY: The Marlowe Theatre hosts a very strong night of stand-up, courtesy of Desiree Burch, Harriet Kemsley, Jen Brister and Sindhu Vee.

Sunday March 3

LONDON: The all-day Chortle Comedy Book festival at the British Library features the likes of Ed Gamble, Lou Sanders,Sara Pascoe, Cariad Lloyd, Tim Key, Robin Ince, Doon Mackichan and Bob Cryer talking about his much-loved father Barry. Full details and tickets here.

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Published: 25 Feb 2024