Comic and psychiatrist Benji Waterhouse on plans for comedy on prescription
06/08/2025 … The UK’s funniest (OK, only) comedian-psychiatrist Dr Benji Waterhouse considers the NHS’s latest plans to prescribe comedy shows for people with depression Welcome…
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
06/08/2025 … In our last review of Les Keen we identified him as ‘one to watch’.
Edinburgh Fringe comedian Kate Dolan picks her comedy favourites
06/08/2025 … Comedian Kate Dolan is at the Edinburgh Fringe with her second hour-long show, The Critic, in which she has to share the stage with her inner monologue.
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
06/08/2025 … Theo Mason Wood calls his show ‘genre-defying’.
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
06/08/2025 … The best comics have a clear brand - able to be described in just a few brief words.
And how a seven-year-old Emma Thompson used to cheat at poker
06/08/2025 … Tony Robinson has told how he was a teenage gambler – and how a seven-year-old Emma Thompson used to help her dad cheat at cards.
Extract from her Edinburgh Fringe show
06/08/2025 … Amy Mason recalls the time she got hacked – with the crooks bizarrely using her details to order a consignment of sex toys to her Bristol house.
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
05/08/2025 … Stephen Catling has a full suite of conditions and disorders which means his brain doesn’t work like most people’s.
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