40 years of the Comedy Store Players
The best of the week's live comedy
26/10/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,429 events Chortle currently has listed.
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Sun 26 October 2025
© UKTV Revisiting The Good Life
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
26/10/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
Fri 24 October 2025
Masked agents snatch comedy club manager
24/10/2025 … The night manager of the Chicago Laugh Factory has been taken into custody by US federal agents.
© Rebel Wilson Jennifer Coolidge and Nicole Scherzinger join Rebel Wilson’s Girl Group.
24/10/2025 … Jennifer Coolidge and Nicole Scherzinger have joined Rebel Wilson’s new comedy Girl Group.
Ricky Gervais makes a cameo in Asterix
Comedian immortalised as a centurion called Extraneus
24/10/2025 … Ricky Gervais has been immortalised in an Asterix cartoon.
© YouTube Garth Marenghi launches YouTube show
'Flushing the skulls' of fellow horror kings
24/10/2025 … Garth Marenghi has launched a video podcast interviewing fellow ‘titans of terror’.
Jason Manford to host the Royal Variety Performance
Tom Davis, Mick Miller and Dead Ringers among the line-up
24/10/2025 … Jason Manford is to host this year’s Royal Variety Performance, it has been announced.
Thu 23 October 2025
Exposé of 21Soho's failure to pay comedians is up for a journalism award
...for its writer Rachael Healy
23/10/2025 … A report into London comedy venue 21Soho failing to pay its acts has earned its writer a nomination in the British Journalism Awards.