Kate Berlant returns to the UK
Two Soho Theatre Walthamstow dates announced
28/10/2025 … American comedian Kate Berlant is to play the Soho Theatre Walthamstow next year, playing to her biggest audience yet in the UK.
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Tue 28 October 2025
© BBC Prunella Scales dies at 93
She had been had been watching Fawlty Towers the day before she died.
28/10/2025 … Prunella Scales, who will forever be known as Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, has died aged 93.
No, there was never going to be a 1960s-set Blackadder Five
Ben Elton says a new installment is 'cosmically unlikely'
28/10/2025 … Ben Elton has scoffed at the idea of a Swinging Sixties revival of Blackadder and says a fifth series is ‘cosmically unlikely’.
Mon 27 October 2025
© Callum Parke/PA Images/Alamy Steve Coogan pays out for Lost King defamation claim
Academic sued over his portrayal in comic's Richard III filn
27/10/2025 … Steve Coogan and the producers of his film The Lost King have agreed to pay an academic ‘substantial damages’ for defamation about how he was portrayed…
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Wodehouse prize for comic fiction shortlist revealed
27/10/2025 … Richard Ayoade, Sandi Toskvig and Outnumbered co-writer Guy Jenkin are among the authors nominated for the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for…
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.
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.