The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
10/08/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Tuesday August 12 ROOM 101: Stephen Mangan attempts to send loud motorbikes, autumn and…
10/08/2025 … Susan Harrison plays a Sindy doll – more than slightly insecure about comparisons with Barbie – in this sketch from Chortle’s Fast Fringe.
© Jordan Pettitt / PA Images/ Alamy Oasis star hits back over criticism
10/08/2025 … They have been blamed for exacerbating the Edinburgh Fringe accommodation crisis and driving punters away from festival shows.
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
09/08/2025 … There’s an inarguable boldness to asking a guy on the front row ‘what’s your favourite thing about sex?’ at 3.
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
09/08/2025 … With a decade’s worth of circuit experience, Thanyia Moore thought she was going to storm the Edinburgh Fringe with her 2022 debut like Usain Bolt stormed…
Matt Winning on the best and worst of the Edinburgh Fringe
09/08/2025 … Comedian Matt Winning is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with his climate-themed Solastalgia, in the theatre section of the programme.
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
09/08/2025 … At a fresh-faced and motor-mouthed 46, Desiree Burch leverages both the fire of youth and the wisdom of age in her new show The Golden Wrath, looking at the physiological…
...and what that says about the state of comedy when times are tough
09/08/2025 … In times of recession, comedy becomes more conservative, argues Edinburgh Fringe comedian and Chortle Hotshot Jessie Nixon.
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