diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0248f9e05..92d5ede41 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Changelog
 
 - Allow `np.ndarray` when writing QAM memory. Disallow non-integer and non-float types.
 - Fix typo where `qc.compiler.calibration_program` should be `qc.compiler.get_calibration_program()`.
+- Fix docs typo in `start.rst`, where an extra parentheses was present in a python code block (@ThomasMerkh).
 - Fixed typo where `scale` was being used as the `phase` in generation of several waveforms.
 
 [v3.0.0](https://github.com/rigetti/pyquil/releases/tag/v3.0.0)
diff --git a/docs/source/start.rst b/docs/source/start.rst
index 51c40cc61..ea141cb05 100644
--- a/docs/source/start.rst
+++ b/docs/source/start.rst
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ allows us to declare classical memory regions so that we can receive data from t
 
         with local_forest_runtime():
             qvm = get_qc('9q-square-qvm')
-            bitstrings = qvm.run(qvm.compile(prog))).readout_data.get("ro")
+            bitstrings = qvm.run(qvm.compile(prog)).readout_data.get("ro")
 
 Next, let's construct our Bell State.