Come out for Live Comedy Day!

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.

Monday March 30

LONDON: Paul Whitehouse assembles some friends at the London Palladium for a benefit for the Prison Advice and Care Trust, including Fast Show chums Charlie Higson, Simon Day, John Thomson and Arabella Weir, plus others including Joe Lycett, John Bishop, Mel Giedroyc and Jocelyn Jee Esien. Tickets

Wednesday April 1: Live Comedy Day

Hopefully as a Chortle reader you need no encouragement to get out and see live comedy… but today has been designated National Live Comedy Day in a bid to get the rest of the population to fall in love with the genre too. Get out and support your local venue!

LONDON: Funny Women take over the Comedy Store, with an impressive range of talent that includes Shaparak Khorsandi, Grace Campbell, Barbara Nice, Zoe (aka Nicola Mantalios), Siblings, Suzi Bennett, Madeleine Brettingham, Sian Davies, Maple Zuo, Spring Day and sketch collective Gobby Girls.

CAERPHILLY: In Comedy Translates, comedians perform in Welsh, but the audience will hear a live English translation.

BATH: At the ongoing Bath Comedy Festival, Jesters Comedy Club is holding a 12-hour marathon from 11am, while at the Ring O Bells, the eccentric Terry Alderton holds court with his friends.

BRIGHTON: At the Komedia, Zoe Lyons, Sikisa and Barry Ferns raise money for the Live Comedy Association behind today's events – and the work they do cheerleading and lobbying for the industry.

DUBLIN: Not part of Live Comedy Day, Susie McCabe, Scottish comedy queen and previous winner of The Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow award, is hitting the road with her show Best Behaviour. It talks about how she's reappraising her life following a heart attack she suffered in the summer of 2024. Susie McCabe tour dates.

Thursday April 2

LONDON: The Questors Theatre in Ealing is running a long weekend of comedy to raise funds for a new roof. Mark Watson and Ninia Benjamin are on tonight, but every show's a winner. Listings

STROUD: A nice offering at Cackling Bat Comedy at the France Lynch Church Rooms includes quirky Peter Brush, deadpan Mike Gunn and spritied Samantha Day.

Friday April 3

LONDON: Chortle best headliner 2026 Esther Manito tops the bill at Live Next To The Apollo at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, where she shares a bill with Horatio Gould from the (also Chortle-winning) Fin Vs History podcast, So You Think You're Funny? Winner Madeleine Brettingham and Eric Rushton, a former recipient of the Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award.