Will this be the new Live At The Apollo?
Have A Word podcast to launch a replacement for axed BBC show
08/08/2026 … The team behind the hit Have A Word podcast are launching a replacement for Live At The Apollo.
2026 Archives
Sat 08 August 2026
Paul Hilleard at Chortle's Fast Fringe
2024 BBC New Comedy Award winner
08/08/2026 … Here’s stand-up Paul Hilleard talking about growing up in a deprived South Wales town and daydreaming about compensation schemes - while teasing the audience…
Fri 07 August 2026
Guy Branum: Be Fruitful
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
07/08/2026 … Be Fruitful has all the trappings of a theatrical one-person show, but Guy Branum insists he’d never be so gauche nor so self-indulgent as to add to this overworked,…
My patented idea to encourage more experimentation at the Fringe
Tom Neenan on the best and worst of the Edinburgh festival
07/08/2026 … Tom Neenan is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with his new show Portrait Of A Tom As A Young Neenan, performed at 3:15pm at Underbelly George Square.
Tamsyn Kelly: Rat's Ass
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
07/08/2026 … Maybe it’s because we’re still in the early days of the Fringe, but Tamsyn Kelly takes a while to hit her stride in this show.
© Natasha Pszenicki John-Luke Roberts: What I Talk About When I Run About, Talking
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
07/08/2026 … Stripping away the high concepts that have hallmarked all his previous shows, this year John-Luke Roberts is going for pure and simple stand-up - no speaking like…
Genres were meant to be broken – especially by queer artists
Refusing categorisation is the whole damn point, says Michael John Ciszewski
07/08/2026 … 'Genres are a funny little concept, aren’t they? In theory, they have a simple definition that's easy to understand,’ says legendary Black American…
Georgia Polly-Taylor: Very Hot. Very Messy.
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
07/08/2026 … Georgia Polly-Taylor takes a lot of wild stabs in her first solo show, gesturing at some big themes and drawing on some big influences, unfortunately without…