The week's best 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 July 5

LONDON: The ebullient Helen Bauer commits her latest stand-up show Bless Her to film (or various solid-state drives, at least) with a recording at Pleasance Islington at 6pm.

DUBLIN: A Stand Up Against Racism gig at the Ambassador Theatre includes the likes of Jason Byrne, Vittorio Angelone, Mike Rice and Alison Spittle. Proceeds go to human rights group Participation and the Practice of Rights and local refugee charity Anaka Women's Collective. Tickets

Monday July 6

LONDON: Stewart Lee has helped organise Up The Andi, a fundraiser for North London Hunt Saboteurs taking place at Leicester Square Theatre. He'll be joined by Harry Hill, Mike Gunn, Seann Walsh, Shaparak Khorsandi and Alasdair Beckett-King… not to mention the very appropriately named Daniel Foxx.

LONDON: Texan comic Ralph Barbosa pops into Soho Theatre for the week. He has the Netflix special Cowabunga and the Hulu special Planet Bosa to his name.

Wednesday July 8

CAMBRIDGE: It's Cambridge's turn to host five nights of big-name gigs as the touring Comedy Garden marquee pitches up in Parker's Piece. Tonight's bill comprises David O'Doherty, Harriet Dyer, Jamali Maddix, John Robins and Kyla Cobbler, while the rest of the week sees appearances from the likes of Sara Pascoe, Dylan Moran, Bridget Christie, and Ross Noble. Cambridge Comedy Garden listings and tickets.

LONDON: SNL UK's Al Nash has invited his friends round to Hackney's Moth Club for what's being dubbed a Summer Sizzler. And what a funny lot they are, including John Tothill, Marjolein Robertson, Christopher MacArthur-Boyd, Pravanya Pillay and Ray Badran.

LONDON: Still in Hackney, Earth is hosting a comedy fundraiser in aid of the Sedulo Foundation, a children's poverty charity. Rosie Jones, Suzi Ruffell, Terry Alderton, Joe Pasquale, Jack Skipper and Chantel Nash are on the varied bill.

MANCHESTER: Mojo Brookzz is an actor and comedian previously seen in Tyler Perry’s Netflix series Miss Governor… or online if you're one of his 5.5million followers across various platforms. He's at Stoller Hall tonight, Birmingham Glee tomorrow, then three nights at Leicester Square Theatre in London.

HARROGATE: A strong line-up comprising Jo Caulfield, Justin Moorhouse, Stephen Carlin and Tom Taylor marks the 15th birthday of the Sitting Room Comedy Club at The Empress.

Thursday July 9

LONDON: Matt Tedford's reimagined version of Margaret Thatcher as a gloriously camp cabaret icon returns. And after conquering Soho she's now Queen of Hollywood! The show - co-created by director and playwright Jon Brittan - plays two nights at Underbelly Boulevard before heading to the Edinburgh Fringe next month. That sound you hear is the former PM spinning in her grave…

Friday July 10

KNUTSFORD: Dead Meet – the comedy festival spun off from the Dead Men Talking podcast – takes over the Cheshire Showground, and now, in its third year, offers camping for the first time for the full festival experience. Tonight is headlined by Michelle Wolf, and tomorrow by Ross Noble, with the scores of acts over the two days including Aurie Styla, Carl Hutchinson, Dan Tiernan, Elliot Steel, Justin Moorhouse, Larry Dean, Nina Gilligan and Tom Stade – plus wrestling, too.

Saturday July 11

GLASGOW: Tonight sees the first of two Laugh In The Park outdoor comedy extravaganzas at Queen's Park Arena, featuring the likes of Billy Kirkwood, Jay Lafferty, JoJo Sutherland, Raymond Mearns and Scott Agnew. A second, with a different line-up, takes place on July 26.

LONDON: Kemah Bob's Femmes of Colo(u)r Comedy Club is back at Soho Theatre with a line-up that comprises Noyelle Nicole Johnson, Blank Peng, Sharifa Butterfly, Ki Griffin and Gem the Clown.

LONDON: The VERY alternative comedy collective Consignia marks ten years of anarchic, experimental, and entirely uncommercial shenanigans with an anniversary gig at the Museum Of Comedy. They look back at some of their most memorable moments here.

HARROGATE: There's a strong line-up at the Hyena Lounge Comedy Club at Harrogate Theatre tonight with Hal Cruttenden, Nick Doody, Paul Thorne and Jon Pearson.

Published: 5 Jul 2026