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The best of the week's live comedy
07/09/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 7,006 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 07 September 2025
© Channel 4/Avalon Taskmaster returns for its 20th series
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
07/09/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday September 8 PETER SELLERS AT SEA: On what would have been the 100th birthday of…
© Iain Masterton / Alamy Stock Photo Graham Linehan has his X ban lifted
Crowdfunder raises £150,000 for his lawyers' fees
07/09/2025 … Graham Linehan has returned to X after the Free Speech Union campaigned to have his bail conditions loosened.
Sat 06 September 2025
© RTS/Tim Whitby James Corden and Ruth Jones in '£8m Apple deal'
Bid to recreate the Gavin & Stacey magic
06/09/2025 … Gavin & Stacey creators James Corden and Ruth Jones are reportedly working on a new comedy-drama for Apple TV+.
Fri 05 September 2025
© PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo Graham Linehan: 'You’re trying to make out I’m a bigot'
Father Ted writer gives evidence in his harassment trial
05/09/2025 … Father Ted creator Graham Linehan told police he threw a teenage trans activist's phone into the road because she taunted him over his divorce.
John Bishop to host new BBC One quiz show
Can one contestant beat the Wisdom Of The Crowd?
05/09/2025 … John Bishop is to host a new quiz-based entertainment show for BBC One.
Cancelled Jewish comics get London gigs
JW3 welcomes acts dropped by their Fringe venues
05/09/2025 … The two Jewish comedians who made headlines when their Edinburgh Fringe venues pulled their gigs are to perform their cancelled shows in London.