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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

Channel 4 has dropped Bridget Christie ’s comedy The Change, despite the comedian’s plans to end the story with a third series. She said the news came as a ‘huge blow’ – but said she hoped to be able ...

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: ...

This 'greatest hits' tour will include his classic songs, You Can’t Stay That to Me, Sleazy Massage, Elvis Sucks and his Corky classic Only Gay Eskimo mixed with madcap routines and stories about Phil ...