Fatiha El-Ghorri announces her first tour
29/01/2026 … Fatiha El-Ghorri has announced her debut stand-up show with 11 UK dates this spring The 44-year-old Hackney-born comedian, who became a breakout star on the 19th…
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Thu 29 January 2026
After 43 years, Banana Cabaret slips away
One of the UK's oldest comedy clubs to close
29/01/2026 … London’s Banana Cabaret comedy club – one of the oldest in the UK and the place where Eddie Izzard first performed stand-up – is to close…
Wed 28 January 2026
Second series for Pierre Novellie's Radio 4 show
28/01/2026 … Radio 4 has ordered a second series of Why In The Name Of Pierre Novellie? The comedian confirmed the news as the last episode in the current series just finished…
Comedy clubs CAN benefit from pubs' aid package
Government confirms business rate deal extends to stand-up venues
28/01/2026 … Comedy clubs will benefit from a new government business rates package, it has been confirmed, after an industry body queried their apparent exclusion.
© Mobo Organisation Eddie Kadi to host the Mobos again
28/01/2026 … Eddie Kadi will return as host of the Mobo Awards this year, it has been announced.
Shrinking is growing
Fourth series for Brett Goldstein show
28/01/2026 … Apple TV has renewed Shrinking for a fourth series, before the third has aired.
Tue 27 January 2026
Tim Key and Tom Basden are up for Baftas
Three nominations for The Ballad of Wallis Island
27/01/2026 … The Ballad of Wallis Island has racked up three nominations in this year’s Bafta Awards.
© Karla Gowlett Geoff Norcott’s Radio 4 show to return
Comic back to discuss 'the complex pool of masculinity'
27/01/2026 … Geoff Norcott’s Working Men’s Club – the comic’s stand-up series about modern masculinity – is returning to Radio 4 this spring/ Four…