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The best of the week's live comedy
19/10/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,677 events Chortle currently has listed.
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Sun 19 October 2025
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The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
19/10/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
Fri 17 October 2025
British Comedy Guide launches open mic competition
Heats and final in London next month
17/10/2025 … The British Comedy Guide has announced a new stand-up contest for open mic comedians.
© Big Talk/Apple TV+ Salvaged Dick Turpin episode released
Made from footage shot before second series of Noel Fielding's comedy was abandoned
17/10/2025 … Apple TV has snuck out a final episode of The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin – after a planned second series was scuppered mid-shoot…
Gregor Fisher goes on his first tour
'Evening with...' shows to look back at his career
17/10/2025 … Scottish comedy star Gregor Fisher is to go on his first tour with an ‘evening with’ show.
'You inevitably get steered towards writing about your identity'
Nick Mohammed on the media industry's limited take on diversity
17/10/2025 … Nick Mohammed has renewed his calls for greater representation of minority groups in TV and film.
Brenda Gilhooly writes her first novel
A comic tale of a woman's out-of-control lie
17/10/2025 … Comedian Brenda Gilhooly has written her first novel.
Naked Gun's 'Ted Olson' dies at 98
Actor Ed Williams also appeared in Father Of The Bride
17/10/2025 … Ed Williams, who played the deadpan forensic scientist Ted Olson in Police Squad! and the Naked Gun movies, has died aged 98.