'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.
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.
Mon 28 July 2025
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…
Wed 23 July 2025
'There is an elegance in great comedy moments'
Mike McShane picks his Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites
23/07/2025 … American comic Mike McShane is at the Edinburgh Fringe with a James Bond inspired comedy play, and as part of Paul Merton & Suki Webster’s Improv Show, Here…
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
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.