Fred MacAulay reveals prostate cancer diagnosis
‘I'm determined not to let it get me down'
21/07/2025 … Fred MacAulay has revealed that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
2025 Archives
Mon 21 July 2025
Sun 20 July 2025
'This may have been the hardest I’ve ever laughed'
Alec Jones-Trujillo - aka Old God - picks his comedy favourites
20/07/2025 … Alec Jones-Trujillo will be heading to the Edinburgh Fringe next week in the guise of Old God, ‘a foppish, irreverent oracle’ and ‘a being so old…
© Stuart Hogben Live at the marquees
In-tents comedy... and the rest of the week's best live gigs
20/07/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© BBC/Richard Harrison Mandy and Here We Go both return
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
20/07/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday July 21 MANDY: Diane Morgan's alter-ego returns for a fourth series of job-related…
Tina Fey and Charlie Brooker join Edinburgh TV Festival
With Munya Chawawa delivering the alternative MacTaggart lecture,
20/07/2025 … Tina Fey, Charlie Brooker and Munya Chawawa have joined the speakers at next month’s Edinburgh TV Festival.
Sat 19 July 2025
A neurodiverse guide to navigating the Edinburgh Fringe
With tips for their neurotypical friends too, by Narin Oz
19/07/2025 … Being at the Edinburgh Fringe is really overwhelming for many neurodivergent people, on top of trying to decipher ambiguous, indirect language neurotypicals throw…
Fri 18 July 2025
The death of American alt-comedy
Ismael Loutfi yearns for the time stand-up wasn't macho and reactionary
18/07/2025 … I started performing stand-up when I was 18, towards the end of Obama’s first term.
Edinburgh Fringe 10x10: Ten sketch shows
...and solo and double acts who do multiple characters
18/07/2025 … Maybe it’s the finances of it; maybe it’s slightly out of fashion – but there seem to be few sketch shows at the Fringe this year.