Ahir Shah scoops main Edinburgh Comedy Award
Urooj Ashfaq is best newcomer and A Show For Gareth wins panel prize
26/08/2023 … Ahir Shah has won the best show accolade at the 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
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Fri 25 August 2023
Lindsey Santoro scoops 'comedy's biggest prize'
Birmingham comic takes home the 201cm NextUp trophy
25/08/2023 … Lindsey Santoro has won the ‘biggest award in comedy’ at the Edinburgh Fringe.
© Andrew Max Levy Julia Masli wins Comedian's Choice award at Edinburgh Fringe
Accolades for Sid Singh and producer Lydia Mason too
25/08/2023 … Julia Masli, Sid Singh and the late Laughing Horse producer Lydia Mason have all scooped accolades at this year’s Comedians' Choice Awards at the Edinburgh…
Thu 24 August 2023
© BBC Black Ops gets a second series
'It feels like a no-brainer to get the band back together'
24/08/2023 … The BBC has ordered a second series of its hit comedy thriller Black Ops.
© Steve Ullathorne Samira Banks wins So You Think You’re Funny?
36th year of new act competition
24/08/2023 … Samira Banks has been crowned the 36th winner of So You Think You’re Funny?, the UK’s longest-running comedy newcomer competition.
© Matt Holyoak New gameshow locks comedians in a box for 24 hours
24/08/2023 … Jimmy Carr is to host a new comedy reality gameshow in which pairs of comedians and celebrities will have to spend 24 hours locked in box – competing against…
© C4 Prayers are answered! Second series for Everyone Else Burns
Simon Bird's doomsday cult comedy to return
24/08/2023 … Channel 4 has ordered a second series of its doomsday cult comedy Everyone Else Burns.
© Channel 4 Channel 4 orders Rosie Jones sitcom Disability Benefits
Six-part series follows a Comedy Blap last year
24/08/2023 … Rosie Jones is to star in a new six-part Channel 4 comedy called Disability Benefits.