Gilded Balloon relaunches Postcode Pals
Cheap tickets for Edinburgh residents
14/07/2025 … Edinburgh Fringe venue Gilded Balloon has launched its Postcode Pals scheme for a second year, offering local residents discounted festival tickets.
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Ash Atalla: I was expected to die
Comedy producer on his childhood polio, and letting Ricky Gervais joke about his disability
13/07/2025 … Ash Atalla has told of the difficulties for him and his family after a childhood bout of polio left him unable to walk.
© Amazon Bob Mortimer 'to return to Last One Laughing'
Series two is already in the can
13/07/2025 … He is surely one of the reasons the first series of LOL: Last One Laughing was such a success.
Putting the 'peng' in Penguins
The best of the week's live comedy
13/07/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© BBC Scotland / Shakehaus BBC Scotland pilots two comedies
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
13/07/2025 … There's not much to report for comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week, just this.
Sat 12 July 2025
Donald Trump calls Rosie O'Donnell 'a threat to humanity'
President wants to revoke comedian's US citizenship
12/07/2025 … Fearless defender of free speech Donald Trump wants to revoke the citizenship of comedian Rosie O'Donnell because she said mean things about him.
Gunmen target comedian's cafe
12/07/2025 … BRITISH COLOMBIA: A terrorist has claimed responsibility for shooting up a Canadian cafe owned by comedian Kapil Sharma on Wednesday.
© So Television Ltd Graham Norton to interview Whoopi Goldberg
Talk show king to host her live UK shows
12/07/2025 … Graham Norton is to join Whoopi Goldberg to conduct the Q&A section of her London show in September.