What does a successful Edinburgh Fringe even mean any more?
Mary O'Connell reappraises what she wants out of the festival
27/07/2025 … ‘Oh my god, you’re performing at the Fringe this year? Are you excited?’ ‘No.
Sun 27 July 2025
Edinburgh venue: Why we cancelled Jewish comedian
Banshee Labyrinth cites Philip Simon's tweets
27/07/2025 … One of the venues that cancelled Jewish comedian Philip Simon say they pulled his Edinburgh Fringe run for ‘associating with discriminatory groups’ Banshee…
'Some of his jokes haven’t aged too well...'
Edinburgh Fringe stand-up Jamie MacDonald picks his comedy favourites
27/07/2025 … Jamie MacDonald is at the Edinburgh Fringe with his show Toxic Bastard about how as a white, middle-class, straight male he might expect people to consider him loathsome…
Reggie Watts is back in London
The best of the week's live comedy
27/07/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© BBC Studios / BOC Look who's back...
The week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
27/07/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday July 28 I'M SORRY I HAVEN'T A CLUE: This week, Harry Enfield, Lucy Porter,…
Lulu Popplewell on dating
Performing at Chortle Fast Fringe
27/07/2025 … Here's Lulu Popplewell talking about the terrible dates she’s been on recently, including a man who spent two hours telling her about a novel he wrote.
Tributes paid to Andrew McBurney
Stand-up and Gary Powndland collaborator dies young
27/07/2025 … Tributes have been paid to alternative comedian Andrew McBurney after his death was announced.
Sat 26 July 2025
© Alan Powdrill Never down a Tunnock’s teacake in one!
Olaf Falafel on the best and worst of the Edinburgh Fringe
26/07/2025 … Comedian Olaf Falafel is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with two shows: one in the kids’ section, one in the main comedy section.