Stewart Francis has joke of the Fringe
20/08/2012 … Stewart Francis has been deemed to have the funniest joke at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
2012 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 20 August 2012
© Brian Hamilton Phyllis Diller dies at 95
20/08/2012 … Pioneering comedian Phyllis Diller has died today at the age of 95.
Ruby Wax to judge new comics
...as SYTYF finalists are revealed
20/08/2012 … Ruby Wax has been revealed as the celebrity judge at the final of the So You Think You’re Funny? talent hunt at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Richard Herring works on Rasputin sitcom
‘Surreal, satirical and slightly insane’
20/08/2012 … Richard Herring is developing a historical sitcom set in pre-revolutionary Russia for BBC TV.
Bravo!
Marcel Lucont wins £5,000 Edinburgh prize
20/08/2012 … Marcel Lucont, the French alter-ego of stand-up Alexis Dubus has won the £5,000 Amused Moose Laughter Award at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Sat 18 August 2012
Sound move
Russell Kane switches Fringe venue over acoustic problems
18/08/2012 … Russell Kane has quit his Edinburgh Fringe venue after complaining about noise problems.
Hugh Grant barred from Fringe venue
Bouncers turn him away from stand-up show
18/08/2012 … Hugh Grant was turned away from a comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe last night – thanks to overzealous bouncers.
Fringe chair quits
'It's time for some fresh thinking'
18/08/2012 … Baroness Elizabeth Smith has stepped down as chair of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society after 17 years, saying: ‘It is time for some fresh thinking.