Jason Manford pulls gigs for emergency appendix operation
Comic taken ill 'at 70mph on the motorway'
31/07/2025 … Jason Manford has revealed the reason he had to cancel shows this weekend was because he’s undergone emergency appendix surgery.
2025 Archives
Thu 31 July 2025
Jimmy Tarbuck writes his autobiography
First memoirs... at the age of 85
31/07/2025 … Jimmy Tarbuck has written his autobiography – more than 60 years after his first TV appearance.
'It’s peak whiteness... and I love it!'
Zainab Johnson picks her comedy favourites
31/07/2025 … Following her Amazon Prime stand-up special Hijabs Off and a run at Soho Theatre in London, American comic Zainab Johnson is making her Fringe debut…
Meet Birmingham's breaking talent of 2025
Competition finalists announced
31/07/2025 … The five acts in the running for this year’s Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award have been announced.
Six audio comedy pilots to be released
Including one from comedy duo The Electrric Head
31/07/2025 … Production company Big Finish Originals are to release six new full-cast audio sitcom pilots from up-and-coming writers.
Cabbage The Clown is an extra-large reusable Suckee cup
In this clip from Chortle's Fast Fringe
31/07/2025 … Cabbage The Clown takes on the role of a cinema’s extra-large reusable Suckee cup in this set from Chortle’s Fast Fringe.
Want to play Traitors with comedians?
Sara Pascoe, Nish Kumar and more in real-life charity event
31/07/2025 … You could be taking part in a real-life version of the Traitors alongside comedians, Ivo Graham, Nish Kumar, Rosie Jones and Sara Pascoe.
Break a leg! Or at least a toe...
31/07/2025 … Clowning can be bad for your health, as Lauren Brady found at last year’s Fringe.