© Marc Brenner Your last chance to peek Inside No9
28/12/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,239 events Chortle currently has listed.
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Sun 28 December 2025
© Marc Brenner Fri 26 December 2025
© BBC/Merman/Natalie Seery 3.1million watch Amandaland Christmas special
Good showing for Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel too
26/12/2025 … The Amandaland Christmas special and Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel made the top ten most popular TV shows on Christmas Day.
Tue 23 December 2025
© Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo Russell Brand faces two new charges
Fresh accusations of rape and sexual assault
23/12/2025 … Russell Brand has been charged with another count of rape and another count of sexual assault.
Judge throws out anti-semitism case against Reginald D Hunter
Campaigners were trying to get the comedian cancelled
23/12/2025 … A judge has thrown out a case against Reginald D Hunter brought by the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
Rob Auton to stream his Time Show for 24hours
Show repeated 25 times over a day, with commentary
23/12/2025 … Rob Auton is streaming his stand-up special The Time Show for 24 hours from 8am on December 28.
© Netflix / Matt Crockett Ricky Gervais’s coffers swell by £1.5million
According to the latest accounts for one of his companies
23/12/2025 … Ricky Gervais’s main company saw its value grow by £1.
© BBC Iain Stirling scoops Celebrity MasterChef’
'He’s cooking food of the people'
23/12/2025 … Iain Stirling was named Celebrity MasterChef’s Christmas champion last night by judges Grace Dent and John Torode.
Mon 22 December 2025
Tony Slattery's final acting job to be released
His reading of The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
22/12/2025 … The last acting job Tony Slattery ever had is to be released this week.