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 our full listings by date and region.

Sunday July 6

MANCHESTER: American stand-up Taylor Tomlinson is on the road after her CBS late-night show After Midnight wrapped up last month. She has three Netflix stand-up specials to her name: Quarter-Life Crisis (2020), Look At You (2022) and Have It All (2024) and her new show, Save Me, comes to the O2 Apollo today; King's Theatre in Glasgow on Tuesday; the Eventim Apollo in London on Thursday and Saturday, and Dublin's 3 Arena next Sunday.

NUNEATON: The Abbey Theatre & Arts Centre hosts an afternoon and evening of Edinburgh previews, with £14 getting you peeks of shows from copper-turned-comic Alfie Moore, and other circuit faves including Ian Stone, Markus Birdman and Patrick Monahan.

DERBY: Another all-dayer at Bar One features works in progress from Hayley Ellis, Rob Rouse, Stephen Carlin and more.

Monday July 7

LONDON: Hold on to Your Butt, a manic two-man Jurassic Park parody, begins a three-day-a-week residency at the Arts Theatre. Schedule and tickets.

LONDON: Athena Kugblenu and David Whitney are among the comics fundraising for Hackney Night Shelter at the Backyard Comedy Club in Bethnal Green.

Wednesday July 9

LONDON: American comedy powerhouse Bill Burr heads to Eventim Apollo – though the gig is, understandably, long sold out. The stand-up and podcaster has made numerous specials, had notable acting roles in The Mandalorian and Breaking Bad as well as Old Dads – the film he wrote and starred in – and the animated comedy F Is for Family, which he co-created.

Thursday July 10

LONDON: There's always a strong weekend line-up at the Comedy Store, and this week is stronger than most thanks to the imposing presence of Scottish-based Canadian Tom Stade alongside Danny McLoughlin, Jarred Christmas, Javier Jarquin and Laura Lexx.

Friday July 11

LONDON: Former Saturday Night Live cast member Leslie Jones comes to the Leicester Square Theatre. She's also a regular on Our Flag Means Death, was the first guest host after Trevor Noah left The Daily Show and starred opposite Eddie Murphy in Coming 2 America for which she won an MTV Movie Award. Tickets.

LONDON: The Italian-Jewish-American stand-up Gianmarco Soresi flies in from New York to perform his latest show The Drama King at Union Chapel. He'll be back for the Edinburgh Fringe (and a sold-out date in Glasgow) next month.

Saturday July 12

GLASGOW: Laughs In The Park returns to the Queen's Park Arena – aka The Bandstand – for a fifth year of open-air LOLs. And this year, it's extended to the Sunday too. Today's line-up includes Des Clarke, JoJo Sutherland, Rosco McClelland and Joe Kent-Walters as Frankie Monroe; while tomorrow's Sunday Service includes Adam Rowe, Connor Burns, Susie McCabe and more.

Published: 6 Jul 2025