Eric Rushton: Innkeeper
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
09/08/2025 … There’s an inarguable boldness to asking a guy on the front row ‘what’s your favourite thing about sex?’ at 3.
Sat 09 August 2025
Thanyia Moore: August
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
09/08/2025 … With a decade’s worth of circuit experience, Thanyia Moore thought she was going to storm the Edinburgh Fringe with her 2022 debut like Usain Bolt stormed…
I curse Chortle for giving me hope
Matt Winning on the best and worst of the Edinburgh Fringe
09/08/2025 … Comedian Matt Winning is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with his climate-themed Solastalgia, in the theatre section of the programme.
Desiree Burch: The Golden Wrath
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
09/08/2025 … At a fresh-faced and motor-mouthed 46, Desiree Burch leverages both the fire of youth and the wisdom of age in her new show The Golden Wrath, looking at the physiological…
How Oxbridge dominates Taskmaster
...and what that says about the state of comedy when times are tough
09/08/2025 … In times of recession, comedy becomes more conservative, argues Edinburgh Fringe comedian and Chortle Hotshot Jessie Nixon.
Ed Night: Your Old Mucker
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
09/08/2025 … Ed Night is back to a decent work rate again, having taken a five-year gap before his 2024 Fringe show, The Plunge.
Harry Hill got alternative underground comedy on primetime ITV
Alex Kitson picks his Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites
09/08/2025 … Picking six comedy favourites was super tricky.
Mark Steel to front McLibel podcast
BBC series about the ongest-running case in English legal history.
09/08/2025 … Mark Steel is fronting a new BBC Sounds podcast about the ‘McLibel’ trial, the longest-running case in English legal history.