Fern Brady starts her tour
The best of the week's live comedy
18/08/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
2024 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
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Sat 17 August 2024
© Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA/CC BY-SA 2.0 Gilbert Gottfried to release his first album, posthumously
US comic never put one out when he was alive for fear of using up material
17/08/2024 … Gilbert Gottfried’s first and last comedy album is to be posthumously released this autumn.
Still Game returns – as a comic book
The continuing adventures of Jack and Victor
17/08/2024 … Still Game’s Jack and Victor are coming back as comic book characters.
Police: There was no hate crime at Reginald D Hunter gig
...as Israeli couple say they felt the audience wanted to kill them
17/08/2024 … Police have said no crime took place at a Reginald D Hunter Edinburgh Fringe show after receiving complaints that his run-in with Israeli hecklers amounted…
Fringe venue evacuated as fire breaks out
Comic Connor Burns abandons show a few minutes in
17/08/2024 … Connor Burns had to abandon his Edinburgh Fringe show last night when a fire broke out in the venue.
Comics to take part in experimental West End play
They only see the script when they arrive on stage
17/08/2024 … Richard Gadd, Nick Mohammed, John Bishop and Sally Phillips are among the comics taking part in an experimental West End play.
Fri 16 August 2024
Who's in the running for the 2024 ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards?
16/08/2024 … The longlists have been announced for the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards – and they are VERY long.
Reginald D Hunter gig cancelled amid antisemitism storm
Comedians' show pulled in town with a large Jewish population
16/08/2024 … A venue has cancelled a Reginald D Hunter show following the antisemitism storm that has blown up at the Edinburgh Fringe.