Angie Le Mar joins her son's sitcom
20/10/2025 … Comedy star Angie Le Mar is joining the cast of a new radio 4 sitcom – written by and starring her son Travis Jay.
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Mon 20 October 2025
© PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo Graham Linehan won't be prosecuted over anti-trans tweets
But writer vows to 'hold officers accountable' over his Heathrow arrest
20/10/2025 … Graham Linehan is to face no further action over the anti-trans tweets that got him arrested at Heathrow Airport.
Mock The Week will return
TLC channel picks up the axed BBC panel show
20/10/2025 … Mock the Week is set to return after six years.
Sun 19 October 2025
© John McMurtrie Ross Noble's back on the road
The best of the week's live comedy
19/10/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,677 events Chortle currently has listed.
© BBC The solace of Leonard and Hungry Paul
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
19/10/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
Fri 17 October 2025
British Comedy Guide launches open mic competition
Heats and final in London next month
17/10/2025 … The British Comedy Guide has announced a new stand-up contest for open mic comedians.
© Big Talk/Apple TV+ Salvaged Dick Turpin episode released
Made from footage shot before second series of Noel Fielding's comedy was abandoned
17/10/2025 … Apple TV has snuck out a final episode of The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin – after a planned second series was scuppered mid-shoot…
Gregor Fisher goes on his first tour
'Evening with...' shows to look back at his career
17/10/2025 … Scottish comedy star Gregor Fisher is to go on his first tour with an ‘evening with’ show.