The best of the week's live comedy

The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,429 events Chortle currently has listed. Use our search panel to check our full listings by date and region.

Sunday October 26

MANCHESTER: Parks and Rec star Nick Offerman kicks off a short UK tour offering ‘songs, stories and slightly unhinged wisdom’ inspired by his latest book Little Woodchucks. It is described as ‘part comedy, part campfire philosophy, part woodworking tutorial gone rogue’ - from a man who runs his own woodworking workshop in Los Angeles. He's at Manchester's Aviva Studios tonight; Glasgow Pavilion Theatre tomorrow; Birmingham: Town Hall on Tuesday; Bristol Beacon on Friday; and the London Palladium on Sunday.

LONDON:The Comedy Store Players are celebrating their 40th birthday tonight. They are the Guinness World Record holder for the longest-running comedy show with the same core team – Neil Mullarkey, Josie Lawrence, Richard Vranch and Lee Simpson – with Ruth Bratt a more recent addition. Guests have included the likes of Marcus Brigstocke, Stephen Frost, Eddie Izzard, Greg Proops and Phill Jupitus. The very first night – October 27, 1985 – also included Mike Myers, with Paul Merton joining a month later, staying until 2020.

WREXHAM: It's the second day of the town's comedy festival with shows from the likes of Adam Kay, Daniel Kitson and Ignatio Lopez, plus a closing gala featuring Robin Morgan, Rachel Fairburn, Leroy Brito and Kiri Pritchard-McLean. Details

Tuesday October 28

LEEDS: To mark both Halloween and the launch of his new book, This Bursted Earth, 'Archduke o’ Darkdom' Garth Marenghi embarks on a chilling new tour with the same title. He's also just launched a series of video interviews with fellow horror titans, as we reported on Friday. Garth Marenghi tour dates.

LONDON: Rory Marshall made a name for himself at the Edinburgh Fringe this year with his worryingly realistic collection of toxic and insecure characters, masking social awkwardness with strategies such as awkward jokes or heightened alpha behaviour. He brings the show, Pathetic Little Characters, to the Soho Theatre for the rest of the week. Read our review here

LONDON: Glenn Moore, Pierre Novellie and Sarah Keyworth take on the audience in video games challenges in The Audience Vs, a new format at Pleasance Islington tonight.

Wednesday October 29

LONDON: Sophie Duker is the guest at The League of Improv at Underbelly Boulevard tonight.

Thursday October 30

WIMBORNE: Count Arthur Strong returns for a second year of his festive take on Charles Dickens and the Christmas Carol, which needless to say doesn't quite run like clockwork. Count Arthur Strong tour dates and review.

LONDON: The Weirdos comedy collective is back with Killer Seagull… Of Somerset, a a Halloween spectacular with a large sprawling cast of oddball comedians. It's inspired by Adam Larter's teenage years growing up in Somerset and is described as 'a ramshackle version of Hitchcock’s The Birds which Larter hasn’t actually watched but has seen the poster of… Think papier mache seagulls, hammy Somerset accents and many many chips.' It's on at the Museum Of Comedy for three nights only with a cast that includes Charlie Vero Martin, Matthew Highton, Michael Brunström and Mikey Bligh-Smith.

HULL: Josh Jones's tour show kicks off the city's comedy festival - though it's rather an odd affair. Even though it allegedly stretches over most of November, the 'festival' mainly comprises the regular Comedy Lounge weekend gigs that would have happened anyway and some fringe events with no line-ups given. Website

Friday October 31

NOTTINGHAM: The city's annual comedy festival takes place over the next ten days and is a far more substantial offering than Hull's, with more than 150 shows in 18 venues – the biggest yet. Top comics appearing this year include Scott Bennett, Nick Mohammed, Bobby Davro, Alfie Moore, Desiree Burch and Glenn Moore. The full line-up is here.

LONDON: The latest Union Chapel stand-up spectacular in Islington features Amy Gledhill, Mike Wozniak, Phil Wang and Sarah Keyworth.

LONDON:... And Keyworth hotfoots it between that gig and the Soho Theatre Walthamstow to take part in another excellent line-up alongside Spencer Jones, Helen Bauer, Sean McLoughlin, Esther Manito and Sharon Wanjohi.

Saturday November 1

GUILDFORD: Tom Lucy, comic and host of the Private Parts podcast, embarks on his new tour Golden Boy. As he approaches the end of his 20s, he reflects on the previous decade in all its 'exciting and wild glory' and expresses his anxieties for life moving forward. Tom Lucy tour dates

STOCKPORT: The Garrick Theatre hosts a triple headliner gig from Outside the Box Comedy Club with the fine work of Scott Bennett, Tez Ilyas and Jarred Christmas, with comedy grouting provided by top MC Karen Bayley.

WELWYN GARDEN CITY: Superior stand-up at the Campus West Theatre with the smartly whimsical Alasdair Beckett-King, wittily cynical Marcus Brigstocke and frazzled everywoman Zoe Lyons.

Published: 26 Oct 2025