...and the rest of the week's top live comedy

The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the more than 7,000 events Chortle currently has listed.  Use our search panel to check our full listings by date and region.

Sunday March 24

GLASGOW: The city's comedy festival continues all week with tonight's picks including Ed Gamble's Hot Diggidy Dog tour at the King's Theatre, Connor Burns at the Garage and Grubby Little Mitts, one of the best new sketch outfits around, starting an eight-night mini-tour at the Britannia Panopticon Music Hall Grubby Little Mitts tour dates. Check the festival's website for more on what’s going on in Glasgow this week.

Tuesday March 26

ABERDEEN: Powerful but fragile Nick Helm launches his Super Fun Good Time Show at 35 venues across the UK, kicking off at the Lemon Tree tongith and winding up at London’s Leicester Square Theatre on June 7. Helm, a two-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, said: ‘I can’t wait to finally share all the songs, jokes and poems that have been swirling around my head driving me absolutely crazy for the last 12 months.’ Nick ​Helm tour dates

Wednesday March 27

BIRMINGHAM: Alasdair Beckett-King – known for his online videos as well as being a very talented live comedian – starts a tour of his five-star rated Nevermore at the old rep. At the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe, our review, said it was erudite, daft, rammed with gags… you couldn’t possibly ask for more'. So what are you waiting for? Alasdair ​Beckett-King tour dates

CARDIFF: Jake Lambert’s Sunshine Kid tour, which starts at the Glee tonight, is something of a stop-start affair. The next date is April 11 and he only has three or four dates a month before the bulk of them in September. His show is about trying to navigate his way through everyday life, why he has a fear of being normal, and asking why we all feel the need to ask strangers what breed their dogs are. Jake ​Lambert tour dates.

Friday March 29

GLASGOW: Liam Withnail kicks off his first UK tour at the Glasgow Stand as part of the city’s comedy festival. The show, which plays 14 UK dates, revolves around his unexpected diagnosis of the inflammatory bowel disease ulcerative colitis, which resulted him spending ten days in hospital. Facing the realisation he could suddenly have to return to hospital at any time, he set about creating a show made up of ten distinct five-minute routines, one for each day of that first hospital stay. The reasoning being he could more easily work on the shorter routines without having to arranging full work-in-progress shows that he may have to cancel at short notice. This technique also underpins the narrative arc of the show, demonstrating how people with chronic illness or disabilities have to make changes every day to try to live as normally as possible. Chronic Boom debuted at last year’s Fringe where it received a five-star review from The Independent and a slew of four-star reviews (including Chortle’s, here). Liam ​Withnail tour dates

Saturday March 30

NOTTINGHAM: There's a great pan-European mix at Just The Tonic tonight, as if Brexit never happened. German Henning Wehn and Frenchman Marcel Lucont will tell Brits where they are going wrong in their wittily withering ways, while Peter Brush's sharp whimsy represents the UK.

LONDON: Strong stuff at Headliners in Chiswick, with the smartarsery of Paul Sinha and the dumb foolishness of The Raymond & Mr Timkins Revue backed by Shaparak Khorsandi and Sharon Wanjohi.

Published: 24 Mar 2024