What is the name of Joe Wilkinson's postman character in After Life?
05/08/2025 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
2025 Archives
Tue 05 August 2025
Michael Welch: All Rizz, No Filter
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
05/08/2025 … It takes a lot of money and work to put on an Edinburgh show, but strangely Michael Welch’s heart doesn’t seem to be in it.
Why live comedy will thrive in the age of AI
05/08/2025 … Artificial Intelligence has never really been a friend of comedy, especially in terms of writing it.
Old God
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
05/08/2025 … Alec Jones-Trujillo’s Old God flew under the radar at CC Blooms nightclub at last year’s Fringe – but somebody must have been paying attention…
The trauma-dump as high art
John Tothill picks his comedy favourites
05/08/2025 … John Tothill is back at the Edinburgh Fringe – a year after his appendix burst while he was on stage at the festival.
Pedro Leandro: Soft Animal
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
05/08/2025 … The top line of Pedro Leandro’s blurb is that he’s ‘a comedian who has famously been described as "magnetic" by the Guardian’.
© House of Commons/Roger Harris/CC BY-SA 3.0 MPs call for government to recognise comedy as an art
Move could unlock funding and other benefits
05/08/2025 … MPs are officially calling on the government to recognise live comedy as an art form in its own right.
Max Fulham talks to the ham
Ventriloquist at Chortle's Fast Fringe
05/08/2025 … Max Fulham shows off how his ventriloquism talents can come in useful in the real world, in this extract from his Edinburgh Fringe show.