Refusing categorisation is the whole damn point, says Michael John Ciszewski
07/08/2026 … 'Genres are a funny little concept, aren’t they? In theory, they have a simple definition that's easy to understand,’ says legendary Black American…
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
07/08/2026 … Georgia Polly-Taylor takes a lot of wild stabs in her first solo show, gesturing at some big themes and drawing on some big influences, unfortunately without…
Ellie Ross's comedy favourites
07/08/2026 … Ellie Ross is at the Edinburgh Fringe with Mrs Gary Breath, a theatrical comedy show about wedding culture and the pressure to get married.
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
07/08/2026 … It should come as little surprise that Gareth Gwynn’s tribute to his great-grandfather Cyril – a poet who chronicled the ways of rural Wales, becoming…
Vix Leyton on giving up confessional stand-up, and finding a renewed joy in her work
07/08/2026 … For a long time, I was locked to a fairly traditional idea of what my stand-up should look like: personal, self-deprecating and built around mining my own…
Edinburgh debutant on the oppressive demands of a three-minute set
07/08/2026 … Leo Hincks talks about how he struggles with the ‘brief Intense intimacy’ required for performing a three-minute set at Chortle’s Fast Fringe.
© ITV ITV renews its black history panel show
07/08/2026 … ITV has renewed its panel show Sorry I Didn’t Know for a seventh series.
© Netflix Review of Ricky Gervais's new Netflix animation
07/08/2026 … Ricky Gervais’s sad descent from co-creator of The Office to peddler of soulless, half-arsed cash-grab tat continues with Alley Cats.
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