Amy Gledhill on getting high
At the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
07/05/2025 … Amy Gledhill recounts her first time getting high, having bought some weed chocolates from the internet.
2025 Archives
Wed 07 May 2025
Edinburgh Fringe adds another 1,564 shows
Festival now boasts 1,205 comedy shows alone
07/05/2025 … Another 1,564 shows have been aded to the Edinburgh Fringe programme today, adding to the 1,792 shows revealed previously.
Harun Musho’d: A History of the Last Conservative Government, In Their Own Stupid Words
07/05/2025 … Harun Musho’d calls this show the ‘worst idea I’ve ever had’, given he had to plough though a pile of piss-poor Tory political memoirs so…
Aoife Dunne: Good Grief
07/05/2025 … The death of her mother may be dark subject for comedy, but Aoife Dunne beams with scintillating light when recounting the stories around it.
Jin Hao Li at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Misplaced wisdom in the forest... and in spelling
07/05/2025 … Jin Hao Li realised something while he was walking through a forest, which he has to share with his audience.
BBC’s head of comedy moves on
Tanya Qureshi goes to the drama department
07/05/2025 … The BBC’s head of comedy Tanya Qureshi is moving to the corporation's drama department.
Paddy Young at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Hoping his roommate doesn't get a girlfriend
07/05/2025 … Here's Paddy Young hoping his roommate doesn't get a girlfriend anytime soon – as it'll mean he'll lose his flat.
Rosie Jones announces 2025 tour
...as well as launching her own charity foundation
07/05/2025 … Rosie Jones is to tour with a new stand-up show I Can't Tell What She's Saying.