Grace Helbig: Let Me Get This Off My Chest
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
06/08/2025 … By this point there have been plenty of comedy shows about cancer, but Grace Helbig’s is among the most high-energy and raucous.
2025 Archives
Wed 06 August 2025
Is laughter the best medicine for the mental health epidemic?
Comic and psychiatrist Benji Waterhouse on plans for comedy on prescription
06/08/2025 … The UK’s funniest (OK, only) comedian-psychiatrist Dr Benji Waterhouse considers the NHS’s latest plans to prescribe comedy shows for people with depression Welcome…
Les Keen: The Man Who Invented A Catchphrase
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
06/08/2025 … In our last review of Les Keen we identified him as ‘one to watch’.
'Catherine Tate made one of the best sketch shows ever'
Edinburgh Fringe comedian Kate Dolan picks her comedy favourites
06/08/2025 … Comedian Kate Dolan is at the Edinburgh Fringe with her second hour-long show, The Critic, in which she has to share the stage with her inner monologue.
Theo Mason Wood: Legalise Kissing
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
06/08/2025 … Theo Mason Wood calls his show ‘genre-defying’.
Tamsyn Kelly: Hot Titty Bungalow
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
06/08/2025 … The best comics have a clear brand - able to be described in just a few brief words.
Tony Robinson: Prejudice against small men really pisses me off
And how a seven-year-old Emma Thompson used to cheat at poker
06/08/2025 … Tony Robinson has told how he was a teenage gambler – and how a seven-year-old Emma Thompson used to help her dad cheat at cards.
Amy Mason on being a crime victim
Extract from her Edinburgh Fringe show
06/08/2025 … Amy Mason recalls the time she got hacked – with the crooks bizarrely using her details to order a consignment of sex toys to her Bristol house.