The week's best live comedy

The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,239 events Chortle currently has listed. Use our search panel to check our full listings by date and region.

Sunday December 28

LONDON: Israeli stand-up Yohay Sponder comes to The Forum in Kentish Town. He has more than 20 years' experience and has built up a sizeable following on social media. This show, Self Loving Jew, covers self love, identity and faith. Tickets

Tuesday December 30

EDINBURGH: The Assembly Rooms hosts a Ho-Ho-Hogmanay to bid farewell to 2025 with circuit stars Christopher MacArthur-Boyd, Larry Dean, Susie McCabe and Ayo Adenekan, who scooped awards for his debut at this year's Fringe.

MANCHESTER: The Frog And Bucket hosts its now traditional Fake New Year's Eve - perfect for those who have to work on the big night – or just can't be dealing with the faff of NYE itself. Barry Dodds, Josh Jones, Nina Gilligan, Rachel Fairburn provide top-flight comedy before the chimes of Big Ben.

LONDON: Barry & Tony – the alter-egos of alternative comedy faves Joz Norris and John-Luke Roberts – host a New Year's Eve Hootenanny, 24 hours early. They will be joined at the Bill Murray by guests Huge Davies, Sam Campbell, Rosa Garland and Kathy Maniura, all parodying New Year's Eve light entertainment programming.

TOWCESTER: Mad genius Terry Alderton fills the festive perineum at Mill Brewery (and also doubling up at the Walnut Tree Inn in Blisworth), ably supported by Matt Stellingwerf.

Friday January 2

LONDON: Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith say goodbye to Inside No.9 with one last run of performances of their Olivier-nominated stage show Stage/Fright at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith until Tuesday. It features a different guest star each night, with the likes of Ian McKellen, Jonathan Ross, Stephen Fry, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Basil Brush having taken part previously. Read our review of the original West End run here.

LONDON: Informed by her formative years at the height of lad culture, Chole Petts celebrates the two things she loves the most in Big Naturals. The show enjoyed a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe and now lands at Soho Theatre until January 17, before embarking on a UK tour. Chole Petts tour dates.

LONDON: Holly Spillar shares the inside track on the time she worked as a minimum-wage babysitter for a billionaire’s daughter in Tall Child, told through stand-up and loop-pedal jiggerypokery. It's on at Soho Theatre today and tomorrow and you can read our review from the Fringe here.

Saturday January 3

LONDON: There's a wealth of experience and talent on show at Downstairs at the King's Head tonight with Ian Stone, Paul F Taylor, Radu Isac, Steve Gribbin, Kathryn Mather and Michael Legge gracing the stage of London's oldest comedy club still to be running in the building where it started.

Published: 28 Dec 2025