Here's Ali Brice performing an extract from his Edinburgh show Eric Meat Gets The Chop at Chortle's Fast Fringe in London earlier this moth. Or at least he tries to, after getting into a conversation ...

Tributes have been paid to musical satirist Tom Lehrer, following his death at 97. He started writing music while a maths undergraduate at Harvard in the 1940s and although had relatively short career ...

Theatre people don’t like joke density, and comedy people don’t like things that feel like a play. As someone who likes when things are funny and have pathos, I often feel like I’ve got one foot in ...

Angry security guards, barked compliments and crossed wires abound as Troy navigates various conversational minefields, both online and in real life. ‘I like the videos but how does it translate to ...

Comedy clubs are the purest place for our artform. Standing on stage in front of a crowd who have no idea who you are—and don’t care, for that matter—but still want to listen to you for 10, 15, or 20 ...

Comedian Philip Simon says he has been axed by another Edinburgh Fringe venue because he is Jewish. He was one of the two acts dropped by the Whistlebinkies venue last week, with bosses citing ‘safety ...

Tributes have been paid to alternative comedian Andrew McBurney after his death was announced. A finalist in several new act competitions a decade ago, the Black Country-based comic was a regular ...

Here's Lulu Popplewell talking about the terrible dates she’s been on recently, including a man who spent two hours telling her about a novel he wrote. The comic was at Fast Fringe performing an ...

Two comedians have had their Edinburgh Fringe shows cancelled because they are Jewish. Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon were told they could no long perform at the Whistlebinkies Free Fringe venue ...

Here's London’s long-running topical comedy company Newsrevue performing an extract from their 2025 Edinburgh Fringe show. The footage features Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves discussing their plans ...

LONDON: First started in 2006, the Camden Fringe is back with more than 400 shows across 40 venues, some of them beyond the borough's boundaries, and covering all genres – including plenty of comedy.

Winner was Ridwaan Hussain, as recently seen in the champion of champions climax of Backyard’s Comedy Knockouts. He has a strong line in self-deprecation, mining all the insecurities he has about ...