Kirkstall Abbey Comedy Festival to return
Big stars head to Leeds landmark
27/10/2025 … The Kirkstall Abbey Comedy Festival is to return to the Leeds landmark next summer, it has been announced.
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Mon 27 October 2025
Bristol Comedy Festival to return
Grassroots events back for a second edition in January
27/10/2025 … The Bristol Comedy Festival will return for its second edition in January, organisers have announced.
Sun 26 October 2025
40 years of the Comedy Store Players
The best of the week's live comedy
26/10/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,429 events Chortle currently has listed.
© UKTV Revisiting The Good Life
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
26/10/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
Fri 24 October 2025
Masked agents snatch comedy club manager
24/10/2025 … The night manager of the Chicago Laugh Factory has been taken into custody by US federal agents.
© Rebel Wilson Jennifer Coolidge and Nicole Scherzinger join Rebel Wilson’s Girl Group.
24/10/2025 … Jennifer Coolidge and Nicole Scherzinger have joined Rebel Wilson’s new comedy Girl Group.
Ricky Gervais makes a cameo in Asterix
Comedian immortalised as a centurion called Extraneus
24/10/2025 … Ricky Gervais has been immortalised in an Asterix cartoon.
© YouTube Garth Marenghi launches YouTube show
'Flushing the skulls' of fellow horror kings
24/10/2025 … Garth Marenghi has launched a video podcast interviewing fellow ‘titans of terror’.