Malcolm Hardee Award winners announced for 2025
Celebrating 'the spirit of anything-goes comedy anarchy'
23/08/2025 … The winners have been revealed for this year’s Malcolm Hardee Awards.
2025 Archives
Sat 23 August 2025
Jack Barry: Let's Get Barried
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
23/08/2025 … Some Fringe comedy shows are deep and meaningful explorations of personal struggle and revelation.
David Cameron asked Tina Fey to fix British TV comedy
PM wanted to adopt the US model of making loads of episode
23/08/2025 … David Cameron once personally asked Tina Fey to come to the UK to change the way the British TV comedy industry works.
Ayoade Bamgboye wins the Biggest Award In Comedy
Edinburgh newcomer takes home 2m tall trophy
23/08/2025 … Ayoade Bamgboye has won the literal Biggest Award In Comedy for her debut Edinburgh Fringe show Swings and Roundabouts.
Phil Ellis and Mark Forward share top ISH comedy award
Amelia Hamilton and Ayo Adenekan joint best newcomers
23/08/2025 … The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards have announced a total of 19 winners will share its five awards this year.
Fri 22 August 2025
Jamie MacDonald: Toxic Bastard
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
22/08/2025 … Jamie MacDonald's recent shows have tended to be variations on the theme that just because he's blind, this doesn't preclude him from behaving badly.
Tiff Stevenson: Post-Coital
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
22/08/2025 … Tiff Stevenson has lured her audience here under false pretences, with a sultry poster and a title, Post-Coital, that suggests sexy times.
Pear: Phobia
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
22/08/2025 … Pear are such an established part of the Fringe now, with this, their fourth sketch show in a row, that any tweaks to their tried and tested formula feel like tinkering…