Marcel Lucont at Chortle's Fast Fringe 2022
The first of many festival preview clips...
25/07/2022 … The Edinburgh Fringe is soon upon us – and here’s the first of 30 preview clips Chortle will be running to plug festival shows.
Mon 25 July 2022
Sun 24 July 2022
Reginald D Hunter at Latitude 2022
24/07/2022 … So the 2022 Latitude comedy stage line-up ended not with a bang, but a whimper as Reginald D Hunter’s set fizzled out, leaving the American to cut his losses.
David O’Doherty at Latitude 2022
24/07/2022 … ‘Let’s blow the temporary roof off this meadow!’ David O’Doherty opens his Latitude set with a perfect expression of the contradictory brand…
© Joseph Sinclair Aisling Bea at Latitude 2022
24/07/2022 … Aisling Bea is not the first comedian to have revealed her ADHD diagnosis.
Frankie Boyle at Latitude 2022
24/07/2022 … He may have spoken about cancel culture during his set – urging the offended to have a sense of perspective and context.
Buckingham Palace asked Frankie Boyle to join the jubilee celebrations
Had they not heard his material?
24/07/2022 … He’s not exactly known for his pro-Monarchy material – but Frankie Boyle has revealed that he was invited to take part in the Platinum Jubilee…
© Ralf Lotys/CC BY-SA 4.0 A very good sign!
Edinburgh's Free Festival shows to offer BSL interpretation for the first time
24/07/2022 … The Laughing Horse’s Free Festival is to offer British Sign Language translation for the first time.
The Skewer goes live
Festival gig for Jon Holmes's Radio 4 show, and the rest of the week's live comedy
24/07/2022 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.