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© PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo Comedian to face seven charges in October
30/03/2026 … Russell Brand’s trial on seven counts of rape and sexual assault will take place in October, a London judge has said today.
Winner to be crowned next month
30/03/2026 … The finalists have been announced for this year’s Musical Comedy Awards.
Looking at the genre's most outrageous characters
30/03/2026 … Tom Allen is to host a new three-part series on Classic FM this weekend.
© Tommy Ga-Ken Wan Presented on the last day of the Glasgow International Comedy Festival
30/03/2026 … Amanda Dwyer has won this year’s Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award.
Including Gregor Fisher and Traitors winner Hannah Byczkowski
30/03/2026 … Gregor Fisher, Phil Nichol and the first winner of TV's The Traitors will be performing at the Gilded Balloon during the year’s Edinburg Fringe.
The best of the week's live comedy
29/03/2026 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© BBC/Vico Films The week's comedy on TV, radio and streaming
29/03/2026 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
29/03/2026 … Jack Shep was one of the comics who stole the opening episode of Saturday Night Live UK with his briefest of Princess Di impressions.
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