All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Tommy Ga-Ken Wan Presented on the last day of the Glasgow International Comedy Festival
30/03/2026 … Amanda Dwyer has won this year’s Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award.
Including Gregor Fisher and Traitors winner Hannah Byczkowski
30/03/2026 … Gregor Fisher, Phil Nichol and the first winner of TV's The Traitors will be performing at the Gilded Balloon during the year’s Edinburg Fringe.
The best of the week's live comedy
29/03/2026 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© BBC/Vico Films The week's comedy on TV, radio and streaming
29/03/2026 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
29/03/2026 … Jack Shep was one of the comics who stole the opening episode of Saturday Night Live UK with his briefest of Princess Di impressions.
28/03/2026 … Comedian Ted Hill received the golden buzzer in tonight's episode of Britain's Got Talent 2026.
© UKTV 28/03/2026 … East London’s Moth Club – home to a leading comedy club and immortalised in a UKTV series – has been saved from developers.
28/03/2026 … Milton Keynes is launching a new comedy festival this July, with a long weekend of stand-up, character comedy, improv and interactive shows spread across venues…
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