© Steve Ullathorne Omar Badawy wins So You Think You're Funny?
UK's longest-running new comedy contest
26/08/2021 … Omar Badawy has won this year’s So You Think You’re Funny? new act competition at the Edinburgh Fringe.
2021 Archives
Thu 26 August 2021
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© Amazon Prime Video Comics revealed for Backstage With Katherine Ryan
Amazon stand-up series to air next year
26/08/2021 … Amazon has revealed the comics taking part in its new stand-up series Backstage with Katherine Ryan.
Ay Up It's Stand Up: Paddy Young & Adam Flood
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
26/08/2021 … These two newish comics must be doing something right, packing out their sizeable Three Sisters venue in an off-peak timeslot.
I Am Not Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
26/08/2021 … The Phoebe Waller-Bridge line isn’t just a gimmicky title to pull in the punters, it’s the whole basis for this show in which Joanna Tilley measures…
Boorish Trumpson
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
26/08/2021 … Given the title and the vow to ‘make music great again’ you might expect some blunt satire here.
French and Saunders dust down previously unaired sketches
26/08/2021 … French & Saunders have released a second series of their podcast Titting About today – including some previously unaired sketches.
Richard Pulsford: A Bit Rich
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
26/08/2021 … Rich Pulsford reckons there are 170 jokes in his 45-minute show, just under four a minute – which seems about right.
First look at the new Never Mind The Buzzcocks
26/08/2021 … Daisy May Cooper reduces the Never Mind the Buzzcocks panel to hysterics with her attempt at the intros round in this first-look clip from the newly revived series.