Sam Serrano: Mars
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
11/08/2026 … Sam Serrano has energy enough to power the National Grid and the charisma of a TV drama’s ‘queer best friend’.
2026 Archives
Tue 11 August 2026
Andrew Doherty: Reviewers Welcome... TO DIE!
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
11/08/2026 … How do you get reviewers to come to your Edinburgh Fringe show? You make it all about them, obviously.
Elf Lyons Is The Woman On The Edge
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
11/08/2026 … Elf Lyons’s show is hard to categorise, which is very much the point of yet another slippery hour of vaulting artistic ambition that favours tonal complexity…
Line-up announced for 2026 Big Brain Tumour Benefit
Underbelly's cancer fundraiser returns
11/08/2026 … Nish Kumar, Rhys James, Rosie Jones and Larry Dean are among the comedians taking part in Underbelly’s eighth annual Big Brain Tumour Benefit, it has been…
If more stand-ups learned from Bernie Mac, maybe more than 10 per cent of them would be watchable
Geoffrey Asmus picks his comedy favourites
11/08/2026 … American comedian Geoffrey Asmus – currently performing at the Edinburgh Fringe – picks his Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites.
Amanda Dwyer: Better Than Revenge
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
11/08/2026 … Amanda Dwyer succeeds in the sub-genre of comedy that might now be called traumady.
Which singer appeared as a rioter in Only Fools And Horses?
Test your knowledge of actors in the Peckham sitcom
11/08/2026 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
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