It garners far more column inches than the official Edinburgh Comedy Awards – but Dave’s Joke Of The Fringe award is being dropped after 18 years. The broadcaster has crowned a champion every year ...

With his soft voice and puppyish demeanour, Pope is a very gentle comedian, but he has an unmistakeable way with words, and mines a lot of borderline raunchy humour from his medical adventure with an ...

Ria Lina talks about giving an International Women's Day speech to a very 'gammony' audience at a City financial institution in this stand-up clip. It comes from her Edinburgh Fringe comedy show ...

Fred MacAulay has revealed that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. The 68-year-old says he has no symptoms but got checked out because of his family history.

Paul F Taylor is a societal outlier who’s wurring wizzing fizzy brain delightfully lands on a variety of subjects like a dizzy fly, only to take flight a few moments later and land on another ...

At one point I was slurping down some soda and a joke hit so hard I laughed, choked, and all this coke came spraying out of my nose and into the bucket of popcorn in my lap. My friends were so mad! I ...

Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: ...

MANCHESTER: The ongoing Creatures Comedy Festival has declared today 'Northern Takeover Day' with acts front the region including Rob Auton, Jack Carroll and working-class acts from Best In Class, ...

Anu Vaidyanathan has had a varied career: engineer, first Asian woman to complete Ultraman Canada (a 10k swim, 420k bike ride and 84.4k run), screenwriter and comedian. She’s back at the Fringe with a ...

As an interactive, randomised sketch show where anything could happen it encompasses the energy of the Fringe, and that’s why we want to debut in Edinburgh.’ May has been a the Fringe before with her ...

Here’s Channel 4’s new format A Short Walk To The Pub with Alexander Ubiquitous. It’s a sketch from Michael Spicer’s new online sketch show, Media Studies, which is available here: ...

The BBC’s TV comedy budget fell seven per cent last year, its new annual report reveals. Accounts show that spending on the genre fell from £241million in the year 2023/24 to £224million last year.