© Ray Burmiston Ricky Gervais sets a French record
...for the biggest audience for a comedy show in English
10/03/2025 … Ricky Gervais has set an attendance record for the biggest English-speaking comedy show in France.
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Mon 10 March 2025
© Ray Burmiston 
Mel & Sue reunite for their first presenting job in seven years
New podcast on Audible from today
10/03/2025 … Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins have reunited for a new podcast – the first time the duo have presented a series together in seven years.
University acquires Eric Morecambe's notebooks
Archives now available to researchers
10/03/2025 … York University has acquired a collection of Eric Morecambe’s handwritten joke books.
Glee's Leeds venue to open on March 28
Tom Davis, Dylan Moran and Michelle De Swarte among the line-up
10/03/2025 … The new Leeds branch of The Glee comedy club will open on March 28, it has been announced.
© Channel 4 / Alistair Heap Generation Z is cancelled
No second series for Channel 4's zom-com
10/03/2025 … Channel 4 has dropped its zombie comedy Generation Z after a single series.
Dawn French and Mark Heap begin filming Can You Keep A Secret?
New BBC comedy about a man faking his death
10/03/2025 … Filming has begun in the West Country on the new BBC One sitcom Can You Keep A Secret?, starring Dawn French and Mark Heap The six-part series apparently…
Sun 09 March 2025
© Elaine Livingstone Stand by for Glasgow's biggest comedy festival
The best of the week's live gigs
09/03/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,657 events Chortle currently has listed.
© Netflix John Mulaney goes live
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
09/03/2025 … Our pick of the limited amount of new comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday March 10 RICHARD OSMAN’S HOUSE OF GAMES: A rerun of…