Which game show did Peter Kay write gags for?
19/08/2025 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Tue 19 August 2025
Mark Vigeant: The Best Man Show
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
19/08/2025 … A best man’s speech gone rogue, this is a tour-de-force of intense, falling-apart-at-the-seams clowning from LA-based performer Mark Vigeant.
Carl Donnelly: Another Round
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
19/08/2025 … Carl Donnelly’s shows these days feel very casual, each new one just a handful of low-key stories from the previous year’s events, suffused with the…
Jenny Ryan: Björn Yesterday
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
19/08/2025 … Think Abba and you think big camp party music, sure to get the aunties on the dancefloor at any wedding.
Lucy Pearman: Lunartic
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
19/08/2025 … Marking her welcome return to the Fringe after six years, it's not hyperbole to call Lunartic a classic Lucy Pearman show.
'Julia Louis-Dreyfus is one of the greats'
Kyla Cobbler picks her comedy favourites
19/08/2025 … Cork native and Barcelona resident Kyla Cobbler is at the Edinburgh Fringe with her show Gone Rogue.
Get free tickets for the BBC New Comedy Awards
19/08/2025 … Free tickets have been release for the BBC New Comedy Awards regional heats, as well as details of the hosts and comedians on the judging panels.
Lulu Popplewell: Love Love
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
19/08/2025 … It’s known in comedy circles that Lulu Popplewell has the best secret weapon in showbiz.