Dave's Joke Of The Fringe cancelled
No prize for punmanship this year
21/07/2025 … It garners far more column inches than the official Edinburgh Comedy Awards – but Dave’s Joke Of The Fringe award is being dropped after 18 years.
Mon 21 July 2025
Comedy needs more liars
Edinburgh Fringe comic Nick Hornedo on why he made up some of his true story
21/07/2025 … When I wrote the ending to my solo show, I knew it was bullshit.
Limmy might be an actual genius....
Rosco McClelland picks his comedy favourites
21/07/2025 … Scottish comic Rosco McClelland is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with How Could Hell Be Any Worse? Here he picks some of his favourite comedy moments.
The Gen Z comedy night that's not reinventing the genre
21/07/2025 … Reviewer Tim Harding gives a rundown of the comedy he's been watching in London - in the last two weeks.
Ria Lina on why women commit fewer crimes
Extract from her Edinburgh Fringe show
21/07/2025 … Ria Lina talks about giving an International Women's Day speech to a very 'gammony' audience at a City financial institution in this stand-up clip.
Fred MacAulay reveals prostate cancer diagnosis
‘I'm determined not to let it get me down'
21/07/2025 … Fred MacAulay has revealed that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Sun 20 July 2025
'This may have been the hardest I’ve ever laughed'
Alec Jones-Trujillo - aka Old God - picks his comedy favourites
20/07/2025 … Alec Jones-Trujillo will be heading to the Edinburgh Fringe next week in the guise of Old God, ‘a foppish, irreverent oracle’ and ‘a being so old…
© Stuart Hogben Live at the marquees
In-tents comedy... and the rest of the week's best live gigs
20/07/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.