'The Fringe is a parallel universe where being a magician is perfectly reasonable...'
Ben Hart on the best and the worst of the festival
05/08/2025 … Magician Ben Hart is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with his new show, The Remarkable Ben Hart.
Tue 05 August 2025
Marise Gaughan: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
05/08/2025 … Innumerable thirtysomething comedians have lamented their lost youth – but Marise Gaughan is one of the few to embrace the cosy mundanity of more settled times.
What is the name of Joe Wilkinson's postman character in After Life?
05/08/2025 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Michael Welch: All Rizz, No Filter
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
05/08/2025 … It takes a lot of money and work to put on an Edinburgh show, but strangely Michael Welch’s heart doesn’t seem to be in it.
Why live comedy will thrive in the age of AI
05/08/2025 … Artificial Intelligence has never really been a friend of comedy, especially in terms of writing it.
Old God
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
05/08/2025 … Alec Jones-Trujillo’s Old God flew under the radar at CC Blooms nightclub at last year’s Fringe – but somebody must have been paying attention…
The trauma-dump as high art
John Tothill picks his comedy favourites
05/08/2025 … John Tothill is back at the Edinburgh Fringe – a year after his appendix burst while he was on stage at the festival.
Pedro Leandro: Soft Animal
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
05/08/2025 … The top line of Pedro Leandro’s blurb is that he’s ‘a comedian who has famously been described as "magnetic" by the Guardian’.