© Leicester City Council Council chief vows to keep keep the event alive
06/08/2026 … Leicester City mayor Sir Peter Soulsby has vowed that a comedy festival will takes place in the city next year It comes after the Big Difference Company,…
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
06/08/2026 … Dead parent shows have become such a Fringe cliché that if a comedian’s going to do one, they’d better make damn sure it’s something special.
NextUp trophy now stands 204cm tall
06/08/2026 … Voting opens tomorrow for NextUp’s Biggest Award in Comedy, the Edinburgh Fringe prize decided by the streaming platform’s subscribers.
Coming to Kelvingrove Art Gallery from June
06/08/2026 … An exhibition about the life of Sir Billy Connolly is to be held in Glasgow next year.
Brennan Reece on the best and the worst of the Edinburgh Fringe
06/08/2026 … As he returns to the Edinburgh Fringe, Brennan Reece talks about what he can't get enough of at the festival; recalls his most embarrassing Edinburgh experience…
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
06/08/2026 … It would be easy to see Jenny Gorelick as a caricature, a young-millennial New Jerseyan who tends to end her sentences with a vocal fry drawl, puts emojis on her…
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
06/08/2026 … Hammer by name and hammer by nature – Kate is a force of nature who pummels the audience through the power of her exuberant personality… in the nicest…
By Edinburgh Fringe performer Camilla Borges
06/08/2026 … Before I go on any further I have a confession; a few years ago I did spend three months at the acclaimed Ecole Philippe Gaulier clown school, studying the art of…
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