Awards rain down on the Kagools
Comedy duo take Amused Moose title
20/08/2017 … The Kagools have won the Amused Moose Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe The double act comprises Claire Ford and Nicola Wilkinson, who performed their first…
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Sun 20 August 2017
Amy Poehler creates new animated comedy
20/08/2017 … Amy Poehler is joining forces with Simpsons veterans Mike Scully and Julie Thacker Scully to create a new animated comedy.
© Andy Hollingworth New comedy festival in the Wyldes of Cornwall
20/08/2017 … The week ahead in live comedy.
© BBC / Guy Levy Ben Elton on the studio sitcom
The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
20/08/2017 … The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio.
Voting opens for Comedians' Choice 2017
For best shows and performers at the Fringe
20/08/2017 … Comedians working at the Edinburgh Fringe have been invited to vote for their favourite colleagues and shows at the festival.
© Elvert Barnes Protest Photography/CC BY-SA 2.0 Dick Gregory dies at 84
Comedian and activist broke barriers
20/08/2017 … Pioneering comedian and activist Dick Gregory has died aged 84.
Sat 19 August 2017
An Angel of the North
Lauren Pattison picks up Fringe accolade
19/08/2017 … Lauren Pattison has won a Herald Angel award for her debut Edinburgh Fringe stand-up show, Lady Muck.
Fri 18 August 2017
Birds Of A Feather gets another Christmas special
18/08/2017 … Birds Of A Feather is to return for a new Christmas special, star Lesley Joseph has revealed.