The Funny Thing About Death by Jo Caulfield
Review of the comedian's memoir about her late sister
28/07/2023 … Understandably, there's a sizeable part of the publishing industry devoted to well-meaning cancer memoirs.
Fri 28 July 2023
Can Stuart Laws break a world record?
Comic's bid to enter the beer-mat-flipping history books
28/07/2023 … Stand-up Stuart Laws is attempting to break the world record for most beer mats flipped and caught in 60 seconds.
Flat And The Curves: Woman up!
28/07/2023 … Here's comedy cabaret group Flat And The Curves urging people to 'woman up and grow a twat' – a far more impressive feat of fortitude than the…
Thu 27 July 2023
Peckham gets its own comedy festival
With Stewart Lee, Nish Kumar, Ed Gamble and mroe
27/07/2023 … It’s still best known as Del Boy’s stomping ground – but the up-and-coming London district of Peckham is getting its own comedy festival.
© Ethan Hardy 'Maybe loving this show makes me a pervert, but whatever...'
27/07/2023 … The Daily Show writer Sophie Zucker will be coming to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time this year with her musical comedy show Sophie…
© The Joke Factory My safe space is under threat
27/07/2023 … Juliana Heng talks to Francis Clarke about life as an autistic stand-up comedian, censorship in Kuala Lumpur, and the upcoming Edinburgh Fringe.
'The compere wept openly in the paddling pool'
Paul Foot on the best and worst of the Edinburgh Fringe
27/07/2023 … Paul Foot returns to the Edinburgh Fringe next week, performing his show Dissolve at 7.
The grim story of Fiona Allen's grandfather
Comic's ancestor had a gruesome job
27/07/2023 … Fiona Allen is making her Edinburgh Fringe debut next week, more than 20 years after her Channel 4 sketch show Smack The Pony ended.