A Bath comedy club is staging a 12-hour stand-up marathon. The Jesters Comedy Club, a 50-seat basement venue will run continuous live comedy from 11am to 11pm on April 1, as part of Live Comedy Day.

Five performers – and one promoter – have been shortlisted for this year’s Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award, presented by the Glasgow International Comedy Festival. The comedians on the ...

Kat Higgins has become the latest comedian to join the Chortle Hotshots Class of 2026 following a showcase at the Glee Club in Birmingham. She receives some financial help bringing her debut show In ...

It was also in response to a dire TV landscape for up-and-coming comics, with The Mash Report, Mock the Week and Frankie Boyle ’s New World Order all having been cancelled in quick succession, as well ...

Sunday’s Oscars night – the perfect evening for star-spotting. And Foil Arms and Hog have taken that literally with their new sketch in which a father takes his son ...

The Mock The Week team talk about a bizarre photograph of Keir Starmer and Donald Trump on a car journey together on Sunday's show. Series regular Rhys James observes: 'It’s very rare that a passenger ...

Rhys has made a discovery that could fix everything. It's been staring him in the face the whole time, in a mirror held behind his head. If he can ignore his own problems for long enough, he might ...

Jennifer Saunders has revealed she and Dawn French once bought an ecstasy tablet to share – but it didn’t quite go to plan. Speaking on the first episode of The Claudia Winkleman Show, which airs on ...

Rhys James has announced a 40-date stand-up tour for 2026 and 2027.

Comedian Kate Hammer has got train passengers to take part in a silly quiz to promote Glasgow International Comedy Festival. The stand-up asked travellers between Edinburgh and Glasgow Queen Street to ...

Here Chortle reviewer Mark Muldoon, who set up the award with the British Comedy Guide, talks to the comic about how overlooked Scottish comedians feel, his current tour show, Howling At The Moon, and ...

Family Guy’s smart-talking evil genius toddler Stevie is to get his own spin-off show. America’s, Fox network has ordered two seasons of the show from Seth MacFarlane, which will focus on the ...