This video game is one of the funniest sitcoms I’ve seen in years
30/08/2024 … Reviewer Tim Harding gives a rundown of the best comedy he's been watching in London - and experiencing via a video game - recently.
2024 Features
Interviews with comedians, comedy reviews, Perfect Playlists and other comedy features, all collected in one place.
Fri 30 August 2024
Tue 27 August 2024
How much do you know about the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe?
As the festival ends, try our weekly trivia quiz
27/08/2024 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, with this week's questions all about the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe.
Tue 20 August 2024
Which of The Three Amigos gets shot in the arm?
20/08/2024 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Is it a faux pas to flyer a well-known comedian?
Suchandrika Chakrabarti on the best and worst of Edinburgh
20/08/2024 … Suchandrika Chakrabarti is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing her show Doomscrolling at Hoots @ Potter at 3pm.
Sun 18 August 2024
So I'm pissing myself in my pants...
Sam See's Edinburgh Fringe binge, cringe and whinge...
18/08/2024 … Sam See is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing his show And I Can't Feel at Home in This World Anymore at Laughing Horse @ The Counting House at…
Sat 17 August 2024
Live comedy is never better, more inventive, more creative and more interesting than it is at the Edinburgh Fringe...
Alexander Bennett on the best and worst of the festival
17/08/2024 … Alexander Bennett is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing his show Emotional Daredevil at Gilded Balloon Patter House at 6.
Fri 16 August 2024
The moral? Trust no one...
Milo Edwards on the best and worst of the Fringe
16/08/2024 … Milo Edwards is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing his show How Revolting! Sorry to Offend at Monkey Barrel at 5.
Thu 15 August 2024
Rookie error: I developed a crush on a fellow performer
Steve Bugeja on the best and the worst of the Edinburgh Fringe
15/08/2024 … Steve Bugeja is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing his show Shiny at Monkey Barrel at The Iron at 1.
If more people got their morals from South Park, the world would be a better place
Raul Kohli picks his comedy favourites
15/08/2024 … Fringe comedian Raul Kohli picks his Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites: South Park Before stand-up, there were cartoons for me: The Simpsons, Family…
Wed 14 August 2024
Your entire self-esteem rides on them taking your silly flyer...
Eleanor Morton on the best and worst of the Fringe
14/08/2024 … Eleanor Morton is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing her show Haunted House at Monkey Barrel at 12.
Watch the 2024 Chortle Student Comedy Award finalists
20th contest culminates at the Edinburgh Fringe
14/08/2024 … Here's the footage of the 20th Chortle Student Comedy Award final held in Edinburgh this week.
If there was an obligatory reading list for stand-ups, this should be top of the list
German-based Libyan comic Mustafa Algiyadi picks his Perfect Playlist
14/08/2024 … German-based Libyan stand-up, Mustafa Algiyadi – who’s currently performing his Edinburgh Fringe debut – picks his Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites Shahad…
Tue 13 August 2024
What song did the Inbetweeners dance to?
13/08/2024 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
When did stand-ups start doing THIS with the mic?
Amy Matthews on her Fringe binge, cringe and whinge
13/08/2024 … Amy Matthews is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing her show Commute With The Foxes at Monkey Barrel at The Tron at 3pm.
© Heather Pasquazzi 'Delightful, funny, and at times deeply dark and disturbing'
Erin Farrington picks her comedy favourites
13/08/2024 … Edinburgh Fringe comedian Erin Farrington shares her Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites.
Mon 12 August 2024
Pie Maker has 28 options - so you can have a varied diet
Louise Atkinson on the best and worst of the Edinburgh Fringe
12/08/2024 … Louise Atkinson is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing her show She’s Got The Look at Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose at 12.
'I had never seen a performer be so captivating'
Katie Green picks her comedy favourites
12/08/2024 … Edinburgh Fringe comedian Katie Green picks her Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites.
Sun 11 August 2024
How about we move the Fringe to March?
Adam Flood on the best and worst of the festival
11/08/2024 … Adam Flood is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing his show Adam Flood: Back of the Spoon at Monkey Barrel at the Trona at 10.
A celebration of nerds who make you laugh
Anu Vaidyanathan chooses her comedy favourites
11/08/2024 … Edinburgh Fringe comedian Anu Vaidyanathan chooses her Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites.
Sat 10 August 2024
The Fringe is a lovely, drunken Withnailian Butlins
Pete Heat on the best and worst of Edinburgh
10/08/2024 … Comedy magician Pete Heat returns to the Fringe with his show Bogus, on at the Pleasance Dome at 8.
The best comedy film ever made
Jake Donaldson picks his comedy favourites
10/08/2024 … Edinburgh Fringe comedian Jake Donaldson picks his Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites.
Fri 09 August 2024
The audience had low expectations... and we were meeting them
The Listies on the best and worst of the Edinburgh Fringe
09/08/2024 … The Listies are on at the Edinburgh Fringe performing their family-friendly show ROFL at Assembly George Square at 11.
Thu 08 August 2024
'Every creative is clusterfuck of anxiety'
Rhys Nicholson on the best and worst of the Edinburgh Fringe
08/08/2024 … Rhys Nicholson is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing their show Huge Big Party Congratulations! at Underbelly Bristo Square at 8.
He was the first comedian who actually sounded like my Jamaican father
Josephine Lacey picks her Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites
08/08/2024 … Edinburgh Fringe comedian Josephine Lacey picks her Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites.
Wed 07 August 2024
Turning FOMO into JOMO (the joy of missing out)
The Hairy Godmothers on the best and worst of Edinburgh
07/08/2024 … The Hairy Godmothers are on at the Edinburgh Fringe with two separate Disney In Drag parody shows, alternating at Assembly George Square at 10.
Can you separate a person from their art? With Louis CK, I try to
Schalk Bezuidenhout's comedy favourites
07/08/2024 … South African comedian Schalk Bezuidenhout shares his Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites.
Tue 06 August 2024
© BBC How many episodes of Last of the Summer Wine were there?
Try our Tuesday Trivia Quiz – with a Yorkshire bent
06/08/2024 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
The authentic foodie secrets that make Edinburgh so special
Josh Glanc on the best and the worst of the Fringe
06/08/2024 … Josh Glanc is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing his show Family Man at Monkey Barrel at 3.
© Fudge Park / BBC 'I love him and I hope he’s in my life forever'
Aimee Lou Wood and David Morrissey on their new BBC sitcom Daddy Issues
06/08/2024 … BBC Three’s new comedy Daddy Issues – in which 24-year-old Gemma is forced to flatshare with her useless divorced dad Malcolm after becoming pregnant…
'He's the best sketch writer alive and it's crazy more people don’t know him'
Sid Singh picks his comedy favourites
06/08/2024 … Edinburgh Fringe comedian Sid Singh – who’s performing two shows at this year’s festival – shares his Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites… Hi(nes)…
Mon 05 August 2024
Love the Fringe, hate the brutal, capitalist logics of it
Tom Ballard on the best and worst of Edinburgh
05/08/2024 … Australian political comic Tom Ballard is in Edinburgh with his new show Good Point Well Made at Monkey Barrel Comedy at 4.
No one was as good as tapping into the national consciousness as Caroline Aherne
Ed Night picks his Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites
05/08/2024 … Edinburgh Fringe comedian Ed Night picks his Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites.
Sun 04 August 2024
'Doing nothing but sleeping and fighting in bins'
Colin Hoult on the best and worst of the Fringe
04/08/2024 … Colin Hoult is heading to the Edinburgh Fringe with his show called simply Colin at Pleasance Courtyard at 8.
'A shining beacon of hope to us girls with
Freya Mallard shares her comedy favourites
04/08/2024 … Comedian Freya Mallard - who’s at the Edinburgh Fringe with her show The Bounce Back – shares her Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites.
Sat 03 August 2024
I had a job to do while the sex happened...
Stuart Laws' Edinburgh binge, cringe and whinge...
03/08/2024 … Stuart Laws is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing his show Stuart Laws Has to Be Joking? at Monkey Barrel at The Hive at 4.
This is the most underrated comedy show of all time
Dee Allum picks her comedy favourites
03/08/2024 … Edinburgh Fringe comedian Dee Allum picks her Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites Rothaniel: Jerrod Carmichael For my money the best standup special…
Fri 02 August 2024
My cake was accidentally racially charged...
Natalie Palamides on the best and worst of Edinburgh Fringe
02/08/2024 … Natalie Palamides is at the Edinburgh Fringe with her new show WEER at Traverse Theatre at 9.
© Dylan Woodley She's the reason I started getting my balls out on stage...
Dan Wye picks their comedy favourites
02/08/2024 … Dan Wye – who previously performed as Séayoncé – is making their Edinburgh Fringe debut in their own name and here chooses their Perfect…
Thu 01 August 2024
Audiences deserve more than a sweaty comedian forced to change in a disabled toilet
Aaron Twitchen on the best and worst of the Fringe
01/08/2024 … Aaron Twitchen is at the Edinburgh Fringe with his stand-up show Himbo, which is on at Gilded Balloon Patter House at 7pm.
Chucklevision is the screensaver in my head.
Jonno from Sheeps shares his Perfect Playlist
01/08/2024 … Daran ‘Jonno’ Johnson is a member of the Sheeps sketch trio alongside Liam Williams and Al Roberts.