...and Bridget Chrisite shares her Jacket Potato Pizza in this week's live comedy picks

The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,840   events Chortle currently has listed. Use our search panel to check our full listings by date and region. 

Sunday January 11

NOTTINGHAM: A top line-up of comics gather at the Canalhouse for a matinee gig raising money for Get Off Live Comedy, which aims to eradicate sexual harassment in the industry. Newly-crowned Comedians’ Comedian of 2025 Rob Rouse is joined by Scott Bennett, Masai Graham and Nina Gilligan. Tickets.

CAMBRIDGE: Radio 4 comedy favourite John Finnemore is at the Junction for two nights presenting some of his favourite sketches.

Monday January 12

STOURBRIDGE: Paul McCaffrey –a regular support act for the likes of Kevin Bridges – starts his own tour, What A Time To Be Alive. talking about life being a constant uphill struggle, doing battle with customer service agents and adapting to life as an older dad as his body is ‘collapsing’, having recently turned 50. Paul McCaffrey tour dates

Tuesday January 13

CHICHESTER: In her first live show in over a decade, Bake-Off, Taskmaster and Just A Minute star Sue Perkins shares stories from a career in the spotlight. The blurb says: ‘What’s the fallout when your lumpy brain goes haywire on live TV?  How do you convince the public you didn’t really fall onto that hoover attachment? And when intimate photos get splashed all over the internet, how do you switch the shame to dignity and joy?’ Sue Perkins tour dates

Wednesday January 14

STAMFORD: Following the critical success of Bridget Christie’s Channel 4 series The Change, the comic hits the road with a new stand-up tour, Jacket Potato Pizza, which promises to cover ‘a kidney stone, a stray cat [and] an eye-themed fetish’. Bridget Christie tour dates.

LONDON: Natalie Palamides’s Weer, an hilarious and ambitious one-woman 1990s rom-com-tragedy, returns to the Soho Theatre Walthamstow for three nights. Review.

LONDON: While in the venue’s original Dean Street home, the wonderfully twisted Ada and Bron explore more doomed romances in their superlative character comedy from tonight to Saturday. Review.

Thursday January 15

MAIDENHEAD: Top one-liner dealer Mark Simmons – winner of Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2024 – is off on tour, saying that stand-up ‘is the best job in the world. I used to work on a market stall selling yo-yos and as you can imagine, that had its ups and downs’. Expect plenty more like that in his Jest To Impress show. Mark Simmons tour dates 


BATH:Rosalie Minnitt revives her irreverent period drama parody Clementine – described as ‘Bridgerton for chronically online girlies’ – for a new tour. Kicking off in the home of Jane Austen, Bath. Clementine tour dates.

Saturday January 17

EDINBURGH: Welsh comic Robin Morgan considers how we’re all talking to each other in an increasingly online world without real communicating in his tour, Let’s Overshare!, starting at Monkey Barrel tonight. Robin Morgan tour dates.

OXFORD: In his tour, Staring At The Sun  Simon Evans is ‘squinting at an uncertain future, revisiting the blue remembered hills of his youth and trying to stay human as the world around him gets smarter’. Simon Evans tour dates

Published: 11 Jan 2026