The Gen Z comedy night that's not reinventing the genre
21/07/2025 … Reviewer Tim Harding gives a rundown of the comedy he's been watching in London - in the last two weeks.
2025 Archives
Mon 21 July 2025
Ria Lina on why women commit fewer crimes
Extract from her Edinburgh Fringe show
21/07/2025 … Ria Lina talks about giving an International Women's Day speech to a very 'gammony' audience at a City financial institution in this stand-up clip.
Fred MacAulay reveals prostate cancer diagnosis
‘I'm determined not to let it get me down'
21/07/2025 … Fred MacAulay has revealed that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Sun 20 July 2025
'This may have been the hardest I’ve ever laughed'
Alec Jones-Trujillo - aka Old God - picks his comedy favourites
20/07/2025 … Alec Jones-Trujillo will be heading to the Edinburgh Fringe next week in the guise of Old God, ‘a foppish, irreverent oracle’ and ‘a being so old…
© Stuart Hogben Live at the marquees
In-tents comedy... and the rest of the week's best live gigs
20/07/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© BBC/Richard Harrison Mandy and Here We Go both return
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
20/07/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday July 21 MANDY: Diane Morgan's alter-ego returns for a fourth series of job-related…
Tina Fey and Charlie Brooker join Edinburgh TV Festival
With Munya Chawawa delivering the alternative MacTaggart lecture,
20/07/2025 … Tina Fey, Charlie Brooker and Munya Chawawa have joined the speakers at next month’s Edinburgh TV Festival.
Sat 19 July 2025
A neurodiverse guide to navigating the Edinburgh Fringe
With tips for their neurotypical friends too, by Narin Oz
19/07/2025 … Being at the Edinburgh Fringe is really overwhelming for many neurodivergent people, on top of trying to decipher ambiguous, indirect language neurotypicals throw…