Record NINE nominees for Edinburgh comedy award
A record nine nominees have been announced for this year’s lastminute.com Edinburgh…
Stephen Mangan to star in new therapy comedy
Stephen Mangan is to star as a therapist in a new Channel…
BBC confirms League Of Gentlemen comeback
The League Of Gentlemen are to make their comeback…
Channel 4 has commissioned a new comedy about gaming…
Channel 4 hungry for more Friday Night Dinner
Channel 4 has ordered a fifth series of Friday Night…
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 off with just five days notice. Organisers…
British comedies including Fleabag, People Just Do Nothing and Witless have been…
Malcolm Hardee nominations announced
The nominees for the Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards have been announced. Rob…
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…
Peep Show remake hits the buffers
The planned American remake of Peep Show has been scrapped. Co-creator Sam Bain…
There will be no more episodes of E4 comedy hit Chewing Gum. Creator Michaela…
Edinburgh Fringe Reviews
If you could change one thing about the Fringe, what would it be?
The length. That poxy half week at the start is what…
Today's shows
FAST FRINGE
Wednesday August 23: Mark Forward, Bob Slayer, Jarlath Regan, Bilal Zafar, Tamar Broadbent, Found Footage Festival, Urizilla Carlson, Laura Davis,Catherine Bohart, Jody Kamali, Fiona Ridgewell, Cat Loud, MC James Loveridge
PLEASANCE DOME, 6.40pm. Tickets.
BEST OF STUDENT COMEDY
Live comedy picks
Gig of the day
Neil Hamburger
Soho Theatre
From 19:30
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Joel Dommett: Live
Ipswich Regent
Thursday 28th Sep from 20:00Book now
Gig of the day
Mark Thomas: A Show That Gambles on the Future
Leicester The Y Theatre
From 19:30
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Sarah Millican - Control Enthusiast
Weston-super-Mare Playhouse
Wednesday 17th Jan from 20:00Book now
Features
I've gigged in a weed dispensary
First gig Above The Bath House pub in Soho in London. It was…
'Michael McIntyre inspired me to be a comedian'
Tom Lucy, Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2016, is performing his debut solo…
All our Edinburgh Fringe reviews
2017 Edinburgh Fringe comedy reviews. Hannah Gadsby: Nanette * The Wrestling Adam…
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…
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
Halifax comedy festival launches
The initial line-up for the Halifax Comedy Festival…
The finalists have been named for the 2017 English…
Daniel Kitson announces Edinburgh shows
Daniel Kitson has announced some work in progress shows at the Edinburgh Fringe. The…
Netflix sees more of its Friends From College
Netflix has renewed its comedy Friends From College for a second…
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…
Punching Up
False sense of security
Stand-up Damian Kingsley was given a police caution yesterday – for impersonating a security officer.The comedian had taken to wearing a security jacket as a…
'There were times when we were utterly sick of each other'
David Mitchell says he’s done some of…
That gag's been coined before!
The joke that TV channel Dave today named as the best…
Irish comic PJ Gallagher has slammed the ‘little…
Videos
Michael Stranney took part in Chortle’s Fast Fringe as his naive and peculiar alter-ego Daniel Duffy.
The whimsical character told the audience at the Leicester Square Theatre: ‘I once did a 72 hour fast for charity… not all at once.’
Stranney Edinburgh Fringe show, Welcome To Ballybeg, the Northern Irish town Duffy inhabits, is on at Pleasance Courtyard at 6pm.
Michael Stranney at Chortle's Fast Fringe
As Daniel Duffy
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
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