15 Aug
08:30
SNL UK comes back 12 September with a Microsoft Forms ballot
At 10am on Friday the ballot for a seat inside Britain’s only live network sketch show opened. The thing standing between you and studio TC1…
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13 Aug
07:31
ISH awards hit £16,000.01 and the tech op gets £1,000
The tech op gets £1,000. An actual cash prize, in a category called best tech. It’s handed over at a ceremony that starts at half…
12 Aug
14:52
Count Us In puts nearly 60 overlooked comics on Princes Street
One of the placards on the corner of Princes Street and Hanover Street on Monday afternoon read “hard to find? look harder”. Another read “Count…
11 Aug
05:35
Levity Live Oxnard closes August 17 and 69 jobs go with it
A general admission ticket to Gary Owen’s late show this Friday at Oxnard Levity Live is $55, and TicketWeb adds $12.55 of fees on top.…
10 Aug
07:25
NextUp’s Fringe award grows to 204cm and still pays £500
The prize list for this year’s Biggest Award in Comedy runs as follows: a 2m 4cm inflatable trophy, £500 in cash, and a hand pump.…
8 Aug
13:35
Have A Word is filming eight Apollo-style shows and taking pitches
The most consequential line in this week’s Have A Word announcement is an email address. Producers are inviting comics, agents and managers to pitch to…
6 Aug
12:58
Leicester’s comedy charity took £499,562 last year and still went bust
Big Difference Company Limited took £499,562 in the year to 29 June 2025 and spent £495,352 of it. That is the last set of numbers…
5 Aug
07:06
Edinburgh’s official Fringe digs check out a day before the festival ends
Book into the Edinburgh Fringe’s official artist village this year and the last date you can pick is 30 August. The 2026 Fringe runs until…
4 Aug
17:11
Fringe 2026 has 1,401 comedy shows – the pick plays at 23.25
The most exciting find of 2026 goes on at 23.25 Chortle’s Tim Harding spent his most-anticipated column pointing at a man in a papier mache…
3 Aug
05:21
Underbelly Boulevard breaks its Soho lease and shuts in January
“Sometimes you just have to hold your cow-shaped hands up and accept it.” That’s the sentence Ed Bartlam and Charlie Wood, the directors of Underbelly,…
