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Clinton Baptiste Adds Extra Dates To Tour Clairvoyant comedian Clinton Baptiste is extending his brand-new tour Spectral Intercourse through to 2027 due to phenomenal demand. Having embarked on four sell-out UK tours in recent years, the nati...

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Video: Mock The Week's Rhys James On McSweeney and Starmer In episode three of brand new Mock The Week on TLC, Dara is joined by series regular Rhys James, alongside Sara Pascoe, Katherine Ryan, Glenn Moore, Sarah Keyworth and Hugh Dennis - who is back on the...

15.02.2026 14:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Comedian Nabil Abdulrashid Guests With League Of Improv At Phoenix Club Nabil Abdulrashid is the latest guest to join the regular team of crackshot performers that make up League of Improv, for a show packed with laughs and surprises. The show will take place on 26 Februa...

15.02.2026 14:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Munya Chawawa To Play Bottom Onstage Comedian Munya Chawawa is to play Bottom in a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Chichester Festival, set amidst the Sussex raves of the 1990s.It will run from 18 September –...

15.02.2026 14:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kerry Godliman To Star In Reimagining Of Detective Series Dalziel And Pascoe Comedian and actor Kerry Godliman and Nina Singh are to star as Dalziel and Pascoe in a fresh and contemporary reimagining of the British detective series, based on the books by Reginald Hill.The seri...

14.02.2026 13:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Who doesn't love Kerry Godliman? beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/1714...

14.02.2026 13:12 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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Comedy News Round Up. open.substack.com/pub/beyondth...

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TV: How To Get to Heaven From Belfast, Netflix After the success of more conventional sitcom Derry Girls, writer Lisa McGee has taken the energy and zip of the schooldays comedy and applied it to a group of adult women along with a mystery plot to...

Theatre Review: I'm Sorry, Prime Minister, Apollo Theatre There’s an illuminating anecdote in Ben Elton’s autobiography What Have I Done? about Elton chatting to former PM Jim Callaghan at a Downing Street Party in the 1990s. A waiter comes along and asks th...

13.02.2026 10:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Monkey Barrel To Bringing Upright Citizens Brigade Classes To UK Monkey Barrel Comedy has announced a new partnership with the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) that will bring UCB improv classes to the UK. The partnership will see UCB’s internationally recognised tra...

13.02.2026 09:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Comedians Join Launch Of National Comedy Day A brand new national day of celebration, Live Comedy Day (LCD), has been announced today to recognise the vital role live comedy plays in the UK’s economy, cultural identity, and creative future. The ...

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Channel 4 Brings Original Comedy Channel to Spotify Channel 4 dedicated digital comedy channel for original unscripted comedy, A Comedy Thing by Channel 4, launches on Spotify this week.The digital-first ensemble channel, featuring some of the nation’s...

12.02.2026 13:59 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Review: Komedia New Comedy Awards Final, Komedia, Brighton The Komedia New Comedy Awards in association with Comic Boom comedy club and arts journalist Victoria Nangle is one of the relative newbies when it comes to comedy competitions, but it has quickly est...

12.02.2026 12:24 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Interview: Alasdair Beckett-King On AI, North-Eastern Surrealism And His New Tour King Of Crumbs Alasdair Beckett-King is heading out on tour with his crumbliest show yet. That's because the multi-award-winning multi-media stand-up's latest show is called King Of Crumbs. It's a comedy cocktail of...

12.02.2026 09:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"the crumbs have all come together very nicely" Alasdair Beckett-King on his latest show King of Crumbs, heading out on tour. beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/1713...

12.02.2026 09:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sara Pascoe, Ed Gamble, Flo & Joan, Paul Foot, Mark Thomas, Sam Nicoresti, Toussaint Douglass and more join the Wells Comedy Festival 10th Anniversary Line-up The‬‭ Wells Comedy Festival‬‭ has announced its‬‬‬ ‭second round of shows to welcome big names, festival favourites and incredible new‬ talent to the celebratory tenth anniversary festival.‬ Sara Pasc...

Great line-up.

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11.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

First Images And Casting For New C4 Comedy Break Clause Channel 4 has today released the first look images for BBC Studios Comedy’s Break Clause. Written and created by Jess Bray (The Outlaws) and directed by Alice Snedden (Starstruck).As previously announ...

good cast. beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/1713...

11.02.2026 12:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

First 351 Edinburgh Fringe Shows Go On Sale the first batch of shows to be staged at the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe has been revealed. All shows will be available to view on edfringe.com from 12:00 today.The 351 shows span every genre of th...

on sale from noon today. beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/1713...

11.02.2026 11:26 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Poetry Book From Cat Cohen A collection of tragicomic verses from the award-winning comedian, actress and millennial renaissance woman, Cat Cohen, entitled God I Feel Modern Tonight, is to be published this month. Cohen, the on...

A collection of tragicomic verses from the award-winning comedian, actress and millennial renaissance woman, Cat Cohen, entitled God I Feel Modern Tonight, is to be published this month.

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11.02.2026 11:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gilded Balloon Announces First Edinburgh Fringe 2026 Shows Gilded Balloon has announced its first shows on sale for the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with 17 productions across comedy, theatre, musicals, cabaret, magic and improv, marking the first exciting...

Komedia New Comedy Awards Final – Results The final has taken place of this year's Komedia New Comedy Awards in association with Comic Boom comedy club and arts journalist Victoria Nangle. Ten acts competed in a closely fought laugh-off at Br...

11.02.2026 10:59 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

North American Dates For Daniel Sloss Internationally acclaimed and award-winning Scottish comedian Daniel Sloss has announced North American dates for his new show, Daniel Sloss: BITTER. The 34-city tour kicks off in May, making stops ac...

11.02.2026 10:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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10.02.2026 18:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

North East Comedy Hall Of Fame - 2nd Inductee Announced Following the announcement of the induction of Chris and Simon Donald, the second of the eight comedy heavyweights to be honoured as part of the first class for the North East Comedy Hall of Fame is a...

Comedians Pay Tribute to Philippe Gaulier Comedians have been paying triubute to Philippe Gaulier, the famous founder of the French clown school, whose former pupils range from Sacha Baron Cohen and Emma Thompson to Edinburgh Comedy Award win...

10.02.2026 15:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Edinburgh Fringe Run And Tour for Jordan Brookes Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Jordan Brookes is doing a new show, The Part Of You That’s Always Screaming on tour across the UK in 2026, including runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre. Follow...

10.02.2026 14:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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UK Pun Championships – Results The UK Pun Championships have taken place at De Montfort Hall in Leicester as part of the Leicester Comedy Festival. After a battle royale of puns, Adam Ernest Pickard (pictured) emerged victorious, c...

“Only women can use the herbal dumbbells. Thyme weights for no man”.

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09.02.2026 23:57 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

TV Review: Small Prophets, BBC Two & iPlayer Just when you think the BBC is hitting an all-time low along comes Small Prophets to save the day, a programme so warm, touching and funny that it singlehandedly justifies the licence fee. Well done w...