Frank Skinner pilots The Greatest Quiz Of All Time
History panel show in development
11/11/2025 … Frank Skinner is piloting a new comedy panel show immodestly titled The Greatest Quiz Of All Time.
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Tue 11 November 2025
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Entries open for 2026 Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Awar
Handed out by the Glasgow Comedy Festival
10/11/2025 … Glasgow International Comedy Festival has opened applications for its Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award.
Kevin Bridges: I played Saudi before it was lucrative!
Comic recalls an edgy, shady Riyadh gig from 2008
10/11/2025 … Kevin Bridges has told how he turned down the controversial Riyadh comedy festival – while revealing that he played Saudi Arabia as long ago as 2008.
© PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo Apply to perform at the Rik Mayall comedy festival
Comedians sought for second annual event
10/11/2025 … The Rik Mayall comedy festival is inviting comedians to apply for the 2026 event.
© BBC/Studio Lambert Celebrity Traitors will return
No surprise as hit reality series recomissioned
10/11/2025 … The Celebrity Traitors will return for a second series on BBC One – in a much-needed bit of good news for the beleaguered broadcaster.
Sun 09 November 2025
Insider comedy from Luke McQueen's Comedian's Comedian
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
09/11/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,256 events Chortle currently has listed.
Darren Harriott's dad took his own life in jail... now the comic reflects on fatherhood
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
09/11/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
© BBC Studios Theatre to be renamed in Victoria Wood's honour
...in her beloved Lake Distict
09/11/2025 … Victoria Wood is to have a theatre named in her honour in her beloved Lake District.