You've got to be quidding! Is this really the joke of the Fringe?
Another corny 'dad joke' has been named funniest line from the…
The BBC has denied that it working on a new sitcom…
League of Gentlemen to present Edinburgh Comedy Award
The League of Gentlemen are to present this year’s…
Cornwall’s first comedy festival has been called…
British comedies including Fleabag, People Just Do…
Malcolm Hardee nominations announced
The nominees for the Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards…
Peep Show remake hits the buffers
The planned American remake of Peep Show has been scrapped. Co-creator…
There will be no more episodes of E4 comedy hit Chewing Gum. Creator Michaela…
Alfie Moore cops another series on R4
Radio 4 has commissioned a fourth series from policeman-turned-comedian Alfie…
Jerry Lewis has died at the age of 91. A statement from his family said…
Awards rain down on the Kagools
The Kagools have won the Amused Moose Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe The…
Amy Poehler creates new animated comedy
Amy Poehler is joining forces with Simpsons veterans Mike Scully and Julie Thacker…
New comedy festival in the Wyldes of Cornwall
The week ahead in live comedy.Monday August 21LONDON: Unmissable. Tim Heidecker –…
Edinburgh Fringe Reviews
Today's shows
FAST FRINGE
Tuesday August 22: Noise Next Door, John-Luke Roberts, Steve Bugeja, Delighful Sausage, Andy Field, Evelyn Mok, Dylan Gott, Maria Shehata, Gareth Richards, George Rigden, Viggo Venn, Mikey Clark, MC Thom Tuck
PLEASANCE DOME, 6.40pm. Tickets.
BEST OF STUDENT COMEDY
Live comedy picks
Gig of the day
Kevin Bridges
Newcastle Stand
From 20:30
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Joel Dommett: Live
Southend Cliffs Pavilion
Thursday 2nd Nov from 20:00Book now
Gig of the day
Ed Byrne - Spoiler Alert
Bracknell South Hill Park Arts Centre
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Milton Jones Is Out There
Halifax Victoria Theatre
Sunday 19th Nov from 19:30Book now
Features
How comedians come up with their Fringe shows
The Edinburgh Fringe is a vibrant melting pot of talent, a festival of comedy, theatre…
Heckled by a rubber chicken
First gigMe and a friend had written an absolutely terrible sketch about a man trying…
Who have the Edinburgh comedy award judges most heinously overlooked over the years?
With the lastminute.com shortlist out tomorrow, we ask comedians to name who SHOULD…
'I was trying to keep it as far from Peep Show as possible'
David Mitchell and Robert Webb are to reunite in the new Channel 4 sitcom…
Who voiced The Wombles?
Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly trivia quiz - compiled, as always, by…
'Guaranteed to put you off cute puppy videos'
American political comedian Erich McElroy, who is in Edinburgh with a show about…
Opinion
'I fricking love history'
First of all, I can't write OK. I'm typing this with my finger on my phone. I can't even swim. I could. I learnt as a kid, but I've done swim so…
I’m not sure how other comics work, but the other…
The working class has been forced out of comedy
Being an artist these days isn't cheap. Wages have…
A talent manager once asked me how stand-up was going…
Other news
Daniel Kitson announces Edinburgh shows
Daniel Kitson has announced some work in progress shows…
Netflix sees more of its Friends From College
Netflix has renewed its comedy Friends From College for…
Big names join Galway festival
Dara O Briain, Kevin Bridges, Tommy Tiernan and have joined the line-up for Galway’s…
Voting opens for Comedians' Choice 2017
Comedians working at the Edinburgh Fringe have been invited to vote for their favourite…
Andy Zaltzman satirises the British Empire
Andy Zaltzman and Indian comedian Anuvab Pal, an occasional correspondent on his…
Ross Noble is to make a new spoof magazine show for the BBC. Little is known about…
Radio 4 is to launch a new sitcom about ‘preppers’ readying themselves…
Edinburgh one-off for Nish Kumar
Nish Kumar has announced his only full-length Fringe show this year – as part…
Punching Up
That gag's been coined before!
The joke that TV channel Dave today named as the best on the Fringe has already been told on one of the broadcaster's most popular shows.And when Dave Gorman cracked…
Irish comic PJ Gallagher has slammed the ‘little…
Some Edinburgh Fringe venues might have the feel of…
The comedy tents at this weekend’s V Festival have…
Videos
World Poetry slam champion Harry Baker and jazz musician Chris Read performed an extract from their Edinburgh show at Chortle's Fast Fringe
In an introductory song they said their double act ‘offered a whole new world like Jasmine and Aladdin/but whack another lad in/ and then get rid of Jasmine’ and compared themselves to the Mario Brothers.
Their show, Harry & Chris 2 is at Just The Tonic @ The Mash House at 2:20pm.
Harry and Chris at Chortle's Fast Fringe
Extract from their Edinburgh show
First trailer for Jack Whitehall: Travels With My Father
Coming to Netflix next month
Olaf Falafel at Chortle's Fast Fringe
On the lost art of biscuitology
Gareth Richards at Chortle's Fast Fringe
Singing a hymn to his own show
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