'It’s peak whiteness... and I love it!'
Zainab Johnson picks her comedy favourites
31/07/2025 … Following her Amazon Prime stand-up special Hijabs Off and a run at Soho Theatre in London, American comic Zainab Johnson is making her Fringe debut…
2025 Perfect Playlist
Here comedians choose half-a-dozen or so of their favourite comedy moments, illustrated with clips. Whether it's just the things that make them laugh or important influences on their careers, these selections reveal what makes their comedy brains tick.
Thu 31 July 2025
Wed 30 July 2025
After Life is the perfect show
Tape Face picks his comedy favourites
30/07/2025 … Physical comedian Sam Wills is back at the Edinburgh Fringe celebrating 20 years of his mime-based Tape Face show, back at the festival where it all took off.
Tue 29 July 2025
'This taught me how funny and absurd a piece can be while telling a beautifully human story'
Lachlan Werner picks his comedy favourites
29/07/2025 … Absurd comedy ventriloquist Lachlan Werner is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with his new show WonderTwunk, about the strongest boy in the world… Here he picks…
Mon 28 July 2025
'Comedy clubs are the purest place for our artform'
Thor Stenhaug picks his Perfect Playlist
28/07/2025 … Thor Stenhaug, a Norwegian comedian based in the UK, is making his Edinburgh Fringe debut this year with One Night Stand Baby.
Sun 27 July 2025
'Some of his jokes haven’t aged too well...'
Edinburgh Fringe stand-up Jamie MacDonald picks his comedy favourites
27/07/2025 … Jamie MacDonald is at the Edinburgh Fringe with his show Toxic Bastard about how as a white, middle-class, straight male he might expect people to consider him loathsome…
Sat 26 July 2025
'It pokes fun at every stand-up who has ever performed'
Mark Forward picks his Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites
26/07/2025 … Edinburgh Fringe comedian Mark Forward picks his favourite comedy moments… Andy Daly from the Comedy Death-Ray Album The Comedy Death Ray album…
Fri 25 July 2025
© Steve Ullathorne Victoria Wood let women be petty, brilliant, deluded and glorious, all at once
Ria Lina picks her Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites
25/07/2025 … TV and radio regular Ria Lina – who’s performing her new stand-up show Riabellion at the Edinburgh Fringe – picks her favourite ever comedy…
Thu 24 July 2025
I wanted to be Bette Midler... even though I couldn't really sing
Rosie O’Donnell picks her comedy favourites
24/07/2025 … American comedy star Rosie O’Donnell is making her Edinburgh Fringe debut, having moved to Ireland – though she also lives rent-free in Donald Trump’s…