UK Live Comedy Sector Survey
This survey is collecting data about the UK's live comedy sector to help explain and demonstrate the impact the industry has, and to identify and signal where it needs more support. The results will be shared with stakeholders and policy makers to aim to further strengthen live comedy.
Take part
Deadline to submit: 23:59, 18th August 2025
We would like people who consider UK live comedy to be their main focus of interest to complete this survey. It's OK if you do other things as well, but welcome aboard if live comedy is your main thing.
This survey is fully anonymous. For those of you who work in a group, please discuss amongst yourselves to decide who will complete the survey on behalf of the organisation.
If you represent a festival that also has a venue, or you wear more than one comedy hat, you can complete this survey as many times as needed, or just fill it out once if you think that's better.
It will take about 10 minutes to complete. You may find it helpful to have your tax return to hand before you start, as there is an optional section asking you to estimate your income and turnover.
With the exception of the informed consent questions, none of the questions are mandatory and you can skip anything you don't want to answer. However, the more questions you do answer will ensure your responses are included in the overall survey report and helps make sure the data we report on is robust.
This survey is a partnership between the Live Comedy Association, the Centre for Comedy Studies Research (Brunel University London) and British Comedy Guide. The research team at Brunel University London will independently compile and analyse the data*, with the final report published at an event on 4th February 2026.
This is the second UK Live Comedy Sector Survey. The first, which was published earlier this year, did a great job of capturing some overview statistics, such as the live comedy sector being worth over £1billion to the UK economy annually. The report resulted in activity such as live comedy being discussed in UK Parliament.
Download the 2024 report (PDF)
To find out more about this study, read the participant information sheet (PDF).
Please get in touch with us if you have any questions about the survey by emailing: Comedy.Studies@brunel.ac.uk
* Research ethics approval has been obtained from the College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences (CBASS) Research Ethics Committee at Brunel University London to complete this survey.