Marcel Lucont: No. Dix
Edinburgh Fringe review by Jay Richardson
16/08/2019 … A decade is a long time to sustain any comedy character, especially one still to acquire his own television vehicle.
2019 Archives
Fri 16 August 2019
Kelly Convey at Chortle's Fast Fringe
Extract from her Edinburgh show
16/08/2019 … Stand-up Kelly Convey talks about working her way up from a modest start in her Kent home town in this clip from Chortle's Fast Fringe.
Phoebe Robinson: Sorry, Harriet Tubman
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
16/08/2019 … It doesn’t exactly show tremendous amount respect for her Fringe audience when Phoebe Robinson tells fans who’ve paid up to £16 to…
Even More Twisted
Edinburgh Fringe review by Alex Bruce
16/08/2019 … Just around the corner from The Lock Up, Frank Skinner’s poster has been graffitied with the single word ‘misogynist’.
'I cannot walk past a Carpetright without hearing his voice...'
Impressionist, comedian and singer Naomi McDonald picks her comedy favourites
16/08/2019 … Anthony Jeselnik: Will drop your baby I had seen Anthony Jeselnik superbly roasting Donald Trump on Comedy Central and immediately recognised he was…
© BBC The BBC Introducing Radio 4 Comedy Award final
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
16/08/2019 … The BBC New Comedy Award – or rather The BBC Introducing Radio 4 Comedy Award as we must try to learn to call it – is almost as much a test…
Jimmy Kimmel sketch costs broadcaster £325,000
...for using emergency alert tones
16/08/2019 … Jimmy Kimmel’s US talk show has been fined £325,000 for using the emergency warning tone in a comedy sketch.
Stephen Fry to present the Edinburgh Comedy Award
Star won the first ever accolade in 1981
16/08/2019 … Stephen Fry is to present Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Award to the best show on the Fringe.