© Jonathan Kemp Photography LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year 2025 finalists announced
Ahead of the gig at Clapham Grand
27/05/2025 … The finalists for the LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year 2025 have been announced.
2025 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 27 May 2025
© Jonathan Kemp Photography Mon 26 May 2025
© Two Rivers Frankie Boyle 'wished his Katie Price gag had never aired'
Comic felt backlash harmed his career, says TV exec
26/05/2025 … Frankie Boyle privately admitted that it one of his most controversial jokes should never have aired, the TV executive who signed it off has revealed.
Rosco McClelland wins NZ comedy award
Shares best international act prize with Australia's Elouise Eftos
26/05/2025 … Scotland’s Rosco McClelland has been named best international act at the New Zealand Comedy Festival.
Sun 25 May 2025
Keeping Rik Mayall's flame burning...
25/05/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© Boffola Pictures The Power Of Parker returns
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
25/05/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Sunday May 25 DEATH VALLEY: This new Welsh-set comedy detective series from Mammoth and…
Jamali Maddix joins Jimmy Carr’s Am I The A**hole?,
Team captain opposite GK Barry
25/05/2025 … Jamali Maddix is to be a regular panellist Jimmy Carr’s new series Am I The A**hole?, Comedy Central has announced today.
GB News 'to cancel Headliners'
'Bloodbath' as comedians face axe
25/05/2025 … GB News looks set to axe its Headliners show, its daily round-up featuring predominantly ‘anti-woke’ comedians looking at the next day’s newspapers.
Sat 24 May 2025
© Comedy Central Second series for Rosie Jones’s Out Of Order
Comedy Central renews panel show
24/05/2025 … Comedy Central is making a second series of Rosie Jones’s panel show Out Of Order.