Meet the 2026 UK Pun Champion
Adam Ernest Pickard scoops title in Leicester
10/02/2026 … Adam Ernest Pickard has won the UK Pun Championships at the Leicester Comedy Festival.
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All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 10 February 2026
Judges announced for Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award 2026
For the culmination of the city's comedy festival
10/02/2026 … The judging panel has been announced for this year’s Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award, with broadcaster Edith Bowman and Still Game co-creator Greg…
Mon 09 February 2026
Griff Rhys Jones launches a podcast
09/02/2026 … Griff Rhys Jones is teaming up with rock keyboard legend Rick Wakeman for a new podcast called The Sound Of The Seventy Year Olds.
BBC adapts Here We Go and Mammoth for the US
Remakes in development Stateside
09/02/2026 … America could soon have their own versions of BBC comedies Here We Go and Mammoth.
It begins... First Edinburgh 2026 shows go on sale
Susie McCabe heads Assembly line-up so far
09/02/2026 … The first tickets for Edinburgh Fringe 2026 are going on sale this week.
Sun 08 February 2026
Hasan Al-Habib and Ashley Blaker make a Pilgrimage
Comics in next series of BBC faith show
08/02/2026 … Comedians Hasan Al-Habib and Ashley Blaker are taking part in the next series of Pilgrimage.
John Kearns is back on tour
The best of the week's live comedy
08/02/2026 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,391 events Chortle currently has listed.
What Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee did next...
The week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
08/02/2026 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.