© Scottish Government/CC BY-SA 2.0 Party set to follow Ireland's £14,700-a-year plan
17/04/2026 … Comedians in Scotland are set to be guaranteed an annual salary of around £15,000 a year if the SNP returns to power in Holyrood, the party has vowed.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
17/04/2026 … Physically imposing and with immense stage presence, Emmanuel Sonubi seems bulletproof – and for a while he lived his life that way, too, consuming wholesale…
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
17/04/2026 … Tarsh Jago has been heard by more attendees of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival than any other comedian, because it’s her voice acknowledging the…
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
17/04/2026 … To say Alexei Toliopoulos likes films would be like saying Bonnie Blue ‘might be up for it’, something of an understatement.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
17/04/2026 … Gently spoken Sashi Perera offers a fascinating journey thought the colonial history of Sri Lanka, why society there still holds white people in such esteem and…
© Nathan Macgee Playing a 'pompous, cruel and petty' man
16/04/2026 … Steve Coogan has joined the second series of BBC comedy Funboys.
Marble adventure Perchang World drops next month
16/04/2026 … James Acaster has lent his voice to a new video game.
© Ian West/PA News/Alamy Rhod Gilbert and Elf Lyons also contribute to biggest prize fund yet
16/04/2026 … James Corden will again be sponsoring the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards this year, alongside fellow comics Rhod Gilbert and Elf Lyons.
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