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Founded in 2000, Chortle was created to serve as the most thorough, insightful, and current resource for everything related to comedy in Britain. Today, it stands as the leading destination for comedy news, critiques, and event listings, drawing in approximately 180,000 unique visitors each month.

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MICF: Guy Montgomery: I’ve Noticed So Many Things, It’d Be Unfair To Keep Them To Myself

1 week ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

With his reserved, kindly delivery, Guy Montgomery exudes an air of quiet authority, the tone of a man who knows what he’s talking about and is patiently sharing his expertise with the audience. But the ideas the New Zealander conveys so patiently are absurd. That a bloke called Luke gave his name to ‘lukewarm’, to use an example that’s apt, given that just happens to be the temperature he likes his comedy. Nothing scorching, just enjoyably soothing.
MICF: Noah Szto: Med School

1 week ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

Last year, Noah Szto won Melbourne’s best newcomer title with a modest but charming storytelling show performed in a tiny karaoke room away from the main festival venues. What a difference a year makes. Now he’s selling out every night and adding extra gigs in a prestigious 250-seater in the town hall. Meanwhile, his energy has transformed from friendly boy-next-door to charismatic TV-ready star, offering the full all-singing, all-dancing entertainment package.
MICF: Two Hearts: Don’t Stop Throbbing

1 week ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

Before New Zealand’s potent musical comedy powerhouses take to the stage we have a support act: Larry and Joseph, a couple of good ole boys performing a country track. Their song is catchy, and the lyrics are both funny and pointed, parodying the trendiness of men’s Mental health as a cause and its knee-jerk use as a defence mechanism to swerve responsibility for toxic behaviour.
MICF: Andy Balloch: The Wedding

1 week ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

We are gathered here today to join Dave and Tony in holy matrimony, with Andy Balloch acting as the MC for the reception that follows. With sackloads of unassuming charm, you’d definitely want him compering your big day, as he’s a generous host, calm yet confidently in control. Even when talking about what makes him ‘so angry’, it comes in the most chilled tone imaginable.
MICF: Laura Davis: Despair Is Beneath Us

1 week ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

An excursion into Laura Davis’s uniquely fertile brain is a highlight of any comedy festival, and this year is no exception. The comedian’s sweeping state-of-the-world, state-of-themselves monologues are always ambitious in scope and fizzing with intelligence and humanity. Usually the only criticism is that they try to pack too much into an hour – though that’s a welcome change from all those comedians who spread scant material thin.
Sue Perkins to host Have I Got News For You

1 week ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

Find Live comedy Add a listing Live Comedy in London | Manchester | Scotland © Richard Kendal Sue Perkins is to host Have I Got News For You for the first time in a decade. The comic has not been on the programme since 2015, but will return to the presenter’s chair on May 2. The guest panellists have also been confirmed as US comedian Michelle Wolf, as well as journalist and political sketch writer Tom Peck.
MICF: The Ballad of Oliver Coleman

1 week ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

An admirable ambition underpins Oliver Coleman’s work, this time putting the focus on the artifice of performance, envisaging a dystopian future of AI art on a burning planet and, even grimmer, talking about real estate agents. The comedian sets out with a full-throttle, elaborately written rant about how evil those involved in the rental business are, delivered with a spiralling intensity fuelled by his burning anger.
MICF: Mel & Sam: No Hat, No Play! The Cabaret

1 week ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

If it’s too loud, you’re too old. Or maybe Mel and Sam just got lazy. I’ve previously been drawn to their high-energy chaos, but No Hat, No Play! The Cabaret prioritised noise over content, with the lack of discipline proving their undoing this time around. The hour is a cacophony of yelling characters - often overlapping their shouted dialogue – and pumping music whose lyrics are often lost in the mess.
Bridget Christie joins Things You Should Have Done

1 week ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

Bridget Christie has joined cast of award-winning the BBC comedy Things You Should Have Done. She plays an ‘unhinged and unprofessional grief counsellor’ called Ruth in the second series of Lucia Keskin’s sitcom. The news comes as filing starts on the second series in Ramsgate in Kent. Christie said: ‘I’ve always wanted to play a bisexual therapist in a Lucia Keskin TV show that films near the sea. Living the dream folks.
MICF: Raw Comedy National Grand Final 2025

1 week ago | chortle.co.uk | Steve Bennett

Judges at new act competitions lie to you. They – well, we – always insist that packing a winner is a tough decision, even when it plainly wasn’t. That said, it WAS a tough decision crowning the winner of the 2025 Raw competition run by the Melbourne comedy festival, with plenty to commend most of the finalists in their five-minute sets. Opening act Charlotte Kruruc had to overcome some nerves that showed in her quiet and restrained delivery.