Break a leg! Or at least a toe...
31/07/2025 … Clowning can be bad for your health, as Lauren Brady found at last year’s Fringe.
Thu 31 July 2025
Wed 30 July 2025
Patrick Kielty splits from Cat Deeley
Comic's marriage over after 13 years
30/07/2025 … Patrick Kielty has separated from Cat Deeley after 13 years of marriage.
Tue 29 July 2025
Pianist-comedian loses a finger just before the Fringe
Friz Frizzle's latest health woe
29/07/2025 … Comedians face all sorts of challenges on their way to the Edinburgh Fringe – but few are as drastic as Friz Frizzle’s story… because the piano-playing…
Fri 25 July 2025
'What if we put eyes on Donald Trump's penis'
South Park creators reveal their negotiations with network execs
25/07/2025 … South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have revealed the debates they had with network bosses before depicting Donald Trump’s micropenis in this week’s…
Thu 24 July 2025
Bring it on!
James Acaster issues an open wrestling challenge
24/07/2025 … James Acaster has issued an open challenge to fight ‘absolutely anyone’ after years of avoiding offensive manoeuvres in the high-profile comedians’…
Tue 22 July 2025
© Eva Rinaldi via Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 2.0 When Robin Williams tried to buy The Comic Strip
22/07/2025 … Robin Williams once offered to buy London’s influential Comic Strip comedy club – just so he could get more stage time to impress David Bowie.
Thu 17 July 2025
Taking the pissoir
Rosie Holt writes a play about Rachel Reeves' urinal
17/07/2025 … Satirist Rosie Holt has written a new play about Rachel Reeves's real-life fight to get rid of the urinal in her private bathroom at No11 Downing Street.
Mon 14 July 2025
'I’ve never seen anyone use ketchup so artfully'
Christopher MacArthur-Boyd stars in pop video
14/07/2025 … Comedians Christopher MacArthur-Boyd and Amelia Bayler star in the new video from Glasgow band Former Champ.