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.

Sunday April 19

GLASGOW: Legendary music venue King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut becomes King Tut’s Ha Ha Hut tonight as it launches a new comedy night – 14 years after it last held a regular stand-up gig. And it gets off to a cracking start with Kate Hammer hosting Susie McCabe, Chris Rutter and Gareth Mutch. Tickets

BATH: The Bath Comedy Festival wraps up wotht he final of its new act competition at the Old Theatre Royal.

Monday April 20

DUBLIN: Comic turned late-night US talk show host Craig Ferguson returns to this side of the Atlantic for his tour, Pants On Fire, playing the Ambassador Theatre today, the Shepherds Bush Empire in London on Friday and a homecoming gig in Glasgow's O2 Academy on Sunday.

NORWICH: Actor, author, television presenter and son of Joe Pasquali, Joe Tracini’s stand-up show Ten Things I Hate About Me starts its nationwide tour at Norwich Theatre Playhouse, the venue that helped him develop the project. In the show, Tracini takes audiences through the symptoms of borderline personality disorder, using his experiences to explore addiction, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts with humour an candour. He previously talked about his condition, and turning it into comedy, in the Channel 4 documentary, Me And The Voice In My Head. Joe Tracini tour dates.

LONDON: Clinton Baptiste, Flo & Joan, Ada Campe and more than two dozen other performers from the worlds of cabaret, burlesque, variety and comedy take over the Phoenix Theatre to help save the arts club in its basement that has been a mainstay of the London cabaret scene for more than 20 years. And you can get tickets for a bargain £25 using this link.

LONDON: In Serving Justice, Sikisa dives into topics as varied as her love of wrestling, the pressure to have kids, and the realities of the immigration system from the point of view of a lawyer working with it. She's at Soho Theatre tonight and tomorrow.

Thursday April 23

LONDON: At Soho Theatre from tonight until Saturday, riotous Irish comic Rachel Galvo overshares about her five years locked up in an all-girls Irish Catholic school run by nuns – and how she's now come to own every embarrassment. Review

LONDON: For those who like their comedy weird, alt night Lemonface returns to Undebelly Boulevard with Julia Masli, Spencer Jones, Lil Wenker, Lady Bolognese and more.

Saturday April 25

CARDIFF: Fatiha El-Ghorri, the breakout star of Taskmaster and Mr Bigstuff is embarking on her first stand-up tour, Cockney Stacking Doll, promising 'strong language and stereotype-smashing'. Fatiha El-Ghorri tour dates

LEEDS: Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the HiFi’s Comedy Club offers a winning bill tonight comprising Angelos Epithemiou (as seen on Shooting Stars) Jack Gleadow, Adam Flood and Barry Dodds.

READING: Mock The Week's king of the absurd one-liner, Milton Jones comes to Just The Tonic at Sub89, with jaunty musical comedy from Plastic Jeezus and first-rate compering from Sally-Anne Hayward.

RICHMOND: An unbeatable bill in South West London sees Ed Gamble, Harriet Kemsley, John Tothill, Phil Wang, Sharon Wanjohi and Catherine Bohart take to the Richmond Theatre stage.

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Published: 19 Apr 2026