New book podcast from Sara Pascoe and Cariad Lloyd
14/08/2023 … Sara Pascoe and Cariad Lloyd are launching a book-club podcast aimed at 'lonely outsiders' In Sara & Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club - which…
2023 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 14 August 2023
Alternative Edinburgh comedy awards announce their longlist
More than 50 Fringe shows in the running
14/08/2023 … The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards – the accolades set up when it appeared that the original awards might not be happening this year – have announced their…
Sun 13 August 2023
© Castle Fine Art Billy Connolly talks about his latest artwork
Comic releases a new set of high-end prints
13/08/2023 … Billy Connolly has released a new set of limited edition art prints.
Prepare for the Henpocalypse
The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
13/08/2023 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and on demand this week: Sunday August 13 BEHIND YOUR TOUCH: New to Netflix is this bizarre Korean comedy thriller…
Greece is the word
13/08/2023 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
Sat 12 August 2023
'Gunman' storms comedian's Edinburgh Fringe show
Man arrested after punters flee in terror
12/08/2023 … Comedian Ralph Brown’s Fringe show was interrupted by a man waving a gun this week.
BBC buys Colin From Accounts series two
Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyers' romcom will return
12/08/2023 … The BBC has confirmed it will be airing the second series of Colin From Accounts.
© Alistair Muir Alex Edelman's Fringe farewell to director Adam Brace
Comic's show comes from Broadway to Edinburgh to help set up an award in his friend's memory
12/08/2023 … American comic Alex Edelman is bringing his Broadway show Just For Us back to the Edinburgh Fringe in tribute to his director, Adam Brace, who died in May at the…