Channel 4 has released the first sketch from Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping. The sketch features Robert Webb and Stevie Martin as airport security guards issuing confusing instructions to ...

The literal biggest award in comedy is back - and bigger than ever. The giant inflatable trophy handed out by stand-up streaming service NextUp at the Edinburgh Fringe is this year 2.03m tall, a whole ...

For Su Mi’s Fringe debut, the comic has settled on a unique visual presentation that mixes traditional clown tropes with elements that express something ineffable about growing up wanting to perform.

Her alter-ego, apparently inspired by Liza Minnelli’s chaotically confident energy, has some pleasingly absurd non-sequiturs and bonkers life advice. However, the watch-and-repeat format of the dances ...

Last year’s Sketch-Off winners James Trickey and Ted Milligan, aka Burger And A Pint, have gone their separate ways for now and are both bringing solo debuts to the Fringe.

Here’s Jessie Nixon performing an extract from her debut Edinburgh Fringe show Don't Make Me Regret This. The Bristolian comedian – one of the five Chortle Hotshots tipped for good things this ...

As probably the only woman in the UK who combines comedy and rap, Amelia Hamilton takes to the stage with suitable swagger, boasting of her talent and insisting ‘I don’t need your permission/you’re ...

Jason Manford has revealed the reason he had to cancel shows this weekend was because he’s undergone emergency appendix surgery. The comic told how he got appendicitis while driving at 70mph on the ...

The premise could not be simpler: woman of a thousand voices Jess Robinson sings the greatest hits of Elton John in the style of various divas. Or should that be *other* divas, given the glam rock god ...

His relationship sounds pretty solid and candid, absorbing the time they spend apart gigging. Yet tensions over playing pool are blown out of all proportion, with McPherson displaying what passes for ...

Jimmy Tarbuck has written his autobiography – more than 60 years after his first TV appearance. The book, Laughter is the Best Medicine, is to be published in November and is described as ‘a nostalgic ...

The five acts in the running for this year’s Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award have been announced. They are: Bab, Abbie Edwards, Abbie Hale, Harry Jenkins and Ryan S Lewis. All will be ...