David Cameron asked Tina Fey to fix British TV comedy
PM wanted to adopt the US model of making loads of episode
23/08/2025 … David Cameron once personally asked Tina Fey to come to the UK to change the way the British TV comedy industry works.
Sat 23 August 2025
Ayoade Bamgboye wins the Biggest Award In Comedy
Edinburgh newcomer takes home 2m tall trophy
23/08/2025 … Ayoade Bamgboye has won the literal Biggest Award In Comedy for her debut Edinburgh Fringe show Swings and Roundabouts.
Phil Ellis and Mark Forward share top ISH comedy award
Amelia Hamilton and Ayo Adenekan joint best newcomers
23/08/2025 … The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards have announced a total of 19 winners will share its five awards this year.
Fri 22 August 2025
Jamie MacDonald: Toxic Bastard
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
22/08/2025 … Jamie MacDonald's recent shows have tended to be variations on the theme that just because he's blind, this doesn't preclude him from behaving badly.
Tiff Stevenson: Post-Coital
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
22/08/2025 … Tiff Stevenson has lured her audience here under false pretences, with a sultry poster and a title, Post-Coital, that suggests sexy times.
Pear: Phobia
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
22/08/2025 … Pear are such an established part of the Fringe now, with this, their fourth sketch show in a row, that any tweaks to their tried and tested formula feel like tinkering…
© Mindy Tucker Lily Blumkin: Nice Try
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
22/08/2025 … Nice Try has the theatrical, carefully performed tone of the off-off-Broadway one-woman show rather than the casual conversational style of a stand-up.
Prashasti Singh: Divine Feminine
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
22/08/2025 … As a straight woman of indeterminate but escalating years as this show becomes more candid, Prashasti Singh is nevertheless identifiably an unmarried woman –…