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The best of the week's live comedy
23/11/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 5,907 events Chortle currently has listed.
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All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 23 November 2025
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The week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
23/11/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
Sat 22 November 2025
Who's taking part in Comedians Taking Penalties?
Chloe Petts’ new internet series
22/11/2025 … The acts taking part in Chloe Petts’ new internet series Comedians Taking Penalties have been announced.
Fri 21 November 2025
Tom Basden wins an award for film music
For The Ballad of Wallis Island
21/11/2025 … Tom Basden has won a British Independent Film Award for his music in The Ballad of Wallis Island.
Tom Towelling scoops C4's Sean Lock Award
Comic praised for 'wholly original, beautifully curated and wildly varied set'
21/11/2025 … Tom Towelling has won this year’s Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award.
Thu 20 November 2025
Melbourne International Comedy Festival announces its first names for 2026
20/11/2025 … The first names have been announced for next year’s 40th anniversary Melbourne International Comedy Festival – with a number of Brits among them.
Filming starts on BBC comedy Shedites
Starring three of the cast of Mrs Brown's Boys
20/11/2025 … Filming has started on the BBC comedy pilot Shedites, based around a place where ‘men can make themselves useful building and repairing things’.
Russell Kane fronts ITV quiz app
With Capital Radio's Sian Welby
20/11/2025 … Russell Kane and Capital Breakfast DJ Sian Welby are presenting a new quiz app from ITV.