© Steve Best Joke of the Fringe, panel prize and tech award nominees also announced
20/08/2025 … The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards have announced the shortlists for their five awards handed out at the Edinburgh Fringe, with 25 shows highlighted.
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
20/08/2025 … ‘Poor little rich girl’ is what someone called Sophie Garrad in a Pizza Express once, and her hackles have been raised ever since.
Paul Campbell picks his comedy favourites
20/08/2025 … Paul Campbell is at the Edinburgh Fringe with his debut show, The Lost Tapes of Somerfield, all about the defunct supermarket chain.
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
20/08/2025 … Among all the hundreds of disclosures of mental and neurological health diagnoses across the Fringe, Dean Coughlin still manages to make an unusual one.
But city ban means gig will be via Zoom
20/08/2025 … Susan Riddell is to appear at the Edinburgh Fringe – despite being banned from this city after being charged with a terrorism-related offence.
(Of course it's to do with maths)
20/08/2025 … There’s nothing unusual in Matt Parker having 8,000 flyers printed for his Edinburgh Fringe run – bit it is unusual that every one is unique.
© Cariad Lloyd/Instagram 20/08/2025 … Cariad Lloyd has undergone emergency surgery after suffering a hernia while on holiday in Cornwall.
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