© Abi Skipp/CC BY-SA 2.0 Which anniversary is the Gilded Balloon celebrating this year?
Try our trivia quiz about the Edinburgh Fringe
29/07/2025 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz.
2025 Archives
Tue 29 July 2025
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The myth of making it
Success doesn't always look like you think it will, says Joe Sib
29/07/2025 … Let me start with this: I’ve performed in front of 20,000 people opening for Metallica, and I’ve performed in front of six people at a wine bar next…
James Corden and Ruth Jones announce Gavin & Stacey event
29/07/2025 … Ruth Jones and James Corden have announced an ‘in conversation’ with event about Gavin & Stacey.
© Stuart Hogben Comedy at Latitude 2025
29/07/2025 … Latitude remains the best outdoor festival for big-name live comedy, mitigating the effects of a daytime gig in a vast open-sided marquee with inevitable noise…
'This taught me how funny and absurd a piece can be while telling a beautifully human story'
Lachlan Werner picks his comedy favourites
29/07/2025 … Absurd comedy ventriloquist Lachlan Werner is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with his new show WonderTwunk, about the strongest boy in the world… Here he picks…
Tiff Stevenson on Chortle's Fast Fringe
Extract from her stand-up show Post-Coital
29/07/2025 … Here’s Edinburgh-bound stand-up Tiff Stevenson performing an extract from her festival show Post-Coital.
© David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 Eddie Murphy to play Inspector Clouseau
Pink Panther movies rebooted again
29/07/2025 … Eddie Murphy is to play hapless Inspector Clouseau in a new Pink Panther movie.
Madeleine Brettingham scoops West End comedy title
First 'New Woman Comedian of the Year' winner
29/07/2025 … Madeleine Brettingham has won the inaugural West End New Woman Comedian of the Year title.