Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
05/08/2025 … Innumerable thirtysomething comedians have lamented their lost youth – but Marise Gaughan is one of the few to embrace the cosy mundanity of more settled times.
05/08/2025 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
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.
05/08/2025 … Artificial Intelligence has never really been a friend of comedy, especially in terms of writing it.
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…
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.
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 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.
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