Gearóid is back at the Fringe for a two-week work in progress of his new show. He's spent four months learning to dance and now needs to earn proper money to support his cat's lavish medical needs. As ...

Anna Hale: Control Freak - Edinburgh Fringe 2025Introducing Anna Hale: comedian, singer-songwriter, control freak. She's written the jokes, the music and the lyrics. She's rigged the lights and sold ...

Innumerable thirtysomething comedians have lamented their lost youth – but Marise Gaughan is one of the few to embrace the cosy mundanity of more settled times. And that’s because she’s already lived ...

It takes a lot of money and work to put on an Edinburgh show, but strangely Michael Welch’s heart doesn’t seem to be in it. He grumbles at the start that ‘you can’t just do jokes in the Fringe’ in ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. Good luck!

MPs are officially calling on the government to recognise live comedy as an art form in its own right. The chair of the cross-party culture committee in the Commons has written to Arts Minister Chris ...

Here’s the video for Adam Buxton’s new song Doing It Wrong, about fears that any attempts to be good, get healthy or bring up children are inadequate. The track comes from the comedian’s new album ...

Jimmy Carr’s wealth grew by more than £3million last year, Companies House accounts reveal. His firm R&I Futures Limited, saw its balance sheet jump from £5.2million to £8.3million in the 12 months to ...

The top line of Pedro Leandro’s blurb is that he’s ‘a comedian who has famously been described as "magnetic" by the Guardian’.

Lauren Pattison and Tom Machell are making a second series of their Radio 4 sitcom Tom and Lauren Are Going OOT! Julian Clary returns as their neighbour Neil with comic Louise Young also back as ...

Ian Smith’s had a good year, which he fears might be kryptonite for his stand-up, given how much solid-gold material he got last year from his mental breakdown. Stress is funny - you only have to look ...

Comedy Central has unveiled the line-up of guests taking part in the new panel show Iain Stirling’s Roast The Internet. The eight hour-long episodes, starting on Monday September 1 , feature comedians ...