David Eagle wins a Fringe award
...and Jordan Tweddle takes ADHD comedy title
18/08/2024 … David Eagle has won an award for the best show by a visually impaired performer at the Edinburgh Fringe.
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Sun 18 August 2024
TV picks: Sky airs Tom Davis stand-up special
18/08/2024 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday August 19 WE MIGHT REGRET THIS: Filmmaker and activist Kyla Harris is behind…
Fern Brady starts her tour
The best of the week's live comedy
18/08/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
Sat 17 August 2024
© Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA/CC BY-SA 2.0 Gilbert Gottfried to release his first album, posthumously
US comic never put one out when he was alive for fear of using up material
17/08/2024 … Gilbert Gottfried’s first and last comedy album is to be posthumously released this autumn.
Still Game returns – as a comic book
The continuing adventures of Jack and Victor
17/08/2024 … Still Game’s Jack and Victor are coming back as comic book characters.
Police: There was no hate crime at Reginald D Hunter gig
...as Israeli couple say they felt the audience wanted to kill them
17/08/2024 … Police have said no crime took place at a Reginald D Hunter Edinburgh Fringe show after receiving complaints that his run-in with Israeli hecklers amounted…
Fringe venue evacuated as fire breaks out
Comic Connor Burns abandons show a few minutes in
17/08/2024 … Connor Burns had to abandon his Edinburgh Fringe show last night when a fire broke out in the venue.
Comics to take part in experimental West End play
They only see the script when they arrive on stage
17/08/2024 … Richard Gadd, Nick Mohammed, John Bishop and Sally Phillips are among the comics taking part in an experimental West End play.