As legendary chat show host dies at 88
17/08/2023 … Michael Parkinson, the chat show host who did so much to launch and promote comedians – most notably giving Billy Connolly his big break – has died at…
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
17/08/2023 … Waggish prankster Sam Campbell returned to the Fringe 12 months after scooping the Edinburgh Comedy Award in the most Sam Campbelly way possible – a single…
...but comic said he couldn't report it for fear of reprisals
17/08/2023 … Omid Djalili has revealed he was shot at in his student days, in what he suggested was a racist attack.
Charlie Vero-Martin at Chortle's Fast Fringe
17/08/2023 … Here's character comedian Charlie Vero-Martin teaching the Fast Fringe something about fish in the guise of Professor Marina Von Flip Flop.
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
16/08/2023 … Just days before the Fringe kicked off, Eric Rushton won the first Sean Lock Comedy Award given out by Channel 4, making comparisons with the late star hard to avoid,…
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
16/08/2023 … After a week at the Fringe seeing eight shows a day, sometimes a little gimmick can be just the ticket, and American comedian Dominique Salerno’s one-woman…
© Ollie Craig Alexander Bennett chooses his comedy favourites
16/08/2023 … Alexander Bennett is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing his stand-up show I Can’t Stand The Man, Myself at Gilded Balloon at The Patter Hoose at 9pm.
Ten acts through instead of the usual nine
16/08/2023 … Leading new act competition So You Think You’re Funny? has announced this year’s finalists – with ten names in the mix rather than the usual nine.
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