Entries open for Chortle Student Comedy Award 2026
03/02/2026 … Entries have opened today for the 2025 Chortle Student Comedy Award.
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All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 03 February 2026
Comics go spying for New Zealand
Familiar faces in new Kiwi comedy
03/02/2026 … Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas has teamed up with Kiwi comedians Rose Matafeo, Paul Williams and Bret McKenzie from Flight Of The Conchords to write and star in a…
© UKTV Comics tackle escape rooms in new TV show
With team captains Ed Gamble and Nish Kumar
03/02/2026 … Ed Gamble and Nish Kumar will lead two teams of comedians in an escape room series coming to U&Dave later this year.
© Paul Gilbey New podcast for Fern Brady and Alison Spittle
Four years after they last hosted Wheel Of Misfortune together,
03/02/2026 … Comedians Fern Brady and Alison Spittle are reuniting for a new podcast called Ignore That Feeling.
Richard Herring to star in Educating Rita
03/02/2026 … Richard Herring is to play disillusioned and alcoholic lecturer Frank in an amateur stage production of Educating Rita.
© C4 Which comedians are in Celebrity Bake Off 2026
03/02/2026 … Comics Richard Herring, Joe Wilkinson, Roisin Conaty, Jon Richardson, Babatunde Aléshé, Rose Matafeo, Judi Love and Tom Davis are taking part…
Ashley Storrie pays tribute to her mum in Dinosaur
Nods to the late Janey Godley in BBC comedy
03/02/2026 … Ashley Storrie pays tribute to her mum – fellow comedian Janey Godley – in the next series of her BBC show Dinosaur.
Mon 02 February 2026
© Michelle Huggleston It's a beautiful baby... podcast
Comedians Robin Morgan and Esyllt Sears launch a parenting show
02/02/2026 … Welsh comedians Robin Morgan and Esyllt Sears are launching a parenting podcast likely to be more honest than helpful.