Stuart Goldsmith: Compared To What
25/08/2016 … Stuart Goldsmith’s sixth solo show is an unfussy hour of down-the-line observational stand-up, revolving around those most identifiable of subjects for a middle-aged…
Thu 25 August 2016
Pippa Evans: Same Same But Different
25/08/2016 … Pippa Evans won an Olivier Award as part of improvised musical Showstoppers – ‘It still counts!’ she insists – and now she’s bringing some of that West…
Wayne Deakin: Talk Hard
25/08/2016 … Elsewhere on the Fringe, Richard Gadd is making the same kind of revelation that closes Wayne Deakin's show the foundation of his entire, award-nominated hour.
Flo & Joan: Victory Flaps
25/08/2016 … If Flanders & Swann and Flight Of The Conchords and Garfunkel & Oates had a six-way time-travelling gang-bang that somehow mixed all their DNA, the offspring…
Heidi Regan wins So You Think You're Funny?
25/08/2016 … DEADPAN Australian comedian Heidi Regan has won this year's £2,500 So You Think You're Funny? new act competition, staged by the Gilded Balloon at the Edinburgh…
Dawn French to host kids' talent show
US format Little Big Shots comes to ITV
25/08/2016 … Dawn French is to host an ITV show highlighting talented children.
Comic guilty of being drunk and disorderly
Monty Burns swore at cop who caught him peeing
25/08/2016 … Stand-up comic Gregor Burns – who uses the stage name Monty Burns – has admitted charges of being drunk and disorderly after he swore at a police…
Channel 5 goes back to the Borderline
25/08/2016 … Channel 5’s comedy Borderline is to return for a second series.