Watch the 2019 Chortle Student Comedy Award finalists
26/08/2019 … Here are the full sets from all of the finalists in this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award, held at the Edinburg Fringe earlier this month.
Mon 26 August 2019
Sun 25 August 2019
What is your favourite flat thing?
The last of Richard Herring's Emergency Questions
25/08/2019 … Any song in the key of B flat, except Roxanne.
Josh Pugh: Maybe The Real Comedy Awards Are The Friends We Make Along The Way
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
25/08/2019 … There’s a certain irony to Josh Pugh’s title, which he attempts to abbreviate, with Richard Herring-style clumsiness, as MTRCAATFWMATW.
Cally Beaton: Invisible
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
25/08/2019 … Invisible is a stunning piece of storytelling, frustratingly wedded to a big chunk of lazily mediocre comedy.
Kevin Bridges ties the knot
Comic weds cafe manager Kerry Monaghan in Glasgow
25/08/2019 … Kevin Bridges has got married in an intimate service in Glasgow The 32-year-old comedian married cafe manager Kerry Monaghan at St Peter’s Catholic…
© Instagram/Jonathan Nemer As Brazil burns, its president goes to a comedy gig
Bolsonaro watches right-wing comic
25/08/2019 … His country is at the heart of an environmental catastrophe caused by his policies.
Alistair Williams: How To Lose Weight And Be Less Racist
Edinburgh Fringe review by Jay Richardson
25/08/2019 … For what it’s worth, I’d probably have handed this show an extra star were it not almost entirely comprised of previous shows’ material.
Danny Ward: Danny's Got Talent
Edinburgh Fringe review by Jay Richardson
25/08/2019 … For an indication of how much stand-up has changed in the 20 years since Danny Ward first tried, and failed, to become a comic, compare the opening gag he shares…