How much do you know about the Naked Gun?
22/07/2025 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
2025 Features
Interviews with comedians, comedy reviews, Perfect Playlists and other comedy features, all collected in one place.
Tue 22 July 2025
'I don’t need to explain Sam Campbell's idiosyncratic brilliance'
Lulu Popplewell picks her comedy favourites
22/07/2025 … Lulu Popplewell is heading back to the Edinburgh Fringe with an 'hour of jokes about love, obsession and raccoons'.
Mon 21 July 2025
Why I hate this one Edinburgh Fringe bar...
Jess Robinson on the best and worst of the festival
21/07/2025 … Musical comedy impressionist Jess Robinson is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with her new show Your Song, revolving around Elton John’s back catalogue.
Limmy might be an actual genius....
Rosco McClelland picks his comedy favourites
21/07/2025 … Scottish comic Rosco McClelland is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with How Could Hell Be Any Worse? Here he picks some of his favourite comedy moments.
The Gen Z comedy night that's not reinventing the genre
21/07/2025 … Reviewer Tim Harding gives a rundown of the comedy he's been watching in London - in the last two weeks.
Sun 20 July 2025
'This may have been the hardest I’ve ever laughed'
Alec Jones-Trujillo - aka Old God - picks his comedy favourites
20/07/2025 … Alec Jones-Trujillo will be heading to the Edinburgh Fringe next week in the guise of Old God, ‘a foppish, irreverent oracle’ and ‘a being so old…
Fri 18 July 2025
Edinburgh Fringe 10x10: Ten sketch shows
...and solo and double acts who do multiple characters
18/07/2025 … Maybe it’s the finances of it; maybe it’s slightly out of fashion – but there seem to be few sketch shows at the Fringe this year.
'I’m a real billy-big-bollocks on stage'
Q&A with Chortle Hotshot Jessie Nixon
18/07/2025 … Jessie Nixon is the final Chortle Hotshots to be profiled here – the five Edinburgh Fringe debutants who we selected from gigs around the country…