When the shortlists were announced last week, Sam Bryant, chair of the judging panel, said: ‘The Edinburgh Comedy Awards have always been a launchpad for the next generation of talent, and that role ...

David Cameron once personally asked Tina Fey to come to the UK to change the way the British TV comedy industry works. The 30 Rock creator revealed that she was summoned to a meeting with him at NBC’s ...

Ayoade Bamgboye has won the literal Biggest Award In Comedy for her debut Edinburgh Fringe show Swings and Roundabouts.

The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards have announced a total of 19 winners will share its five awards this year. Phil Ellis and Canadian comedian Mark Forward shared the best show award, with Amelia ...

Caroline McEvoy is unfailingly nice in her Fringe debut, making latecomers feel welcome, chatting charmingly to the audience (no ‘comedian DESTROYS’ crowd work clips will come from this) and ensuring ...

But there are two aspects that perhaps drive Toxic Bastard further than his previous hours on his preoccupation. Firstly, on the allowances that others make for him, he's acquiring a darker, harder ...

Tiff Stevenson has lured her audience here under false pretences, with a sultry poster and a title, Post-Coital, that suggests sexy times. But as she enters middle age and her 17-year relationship ...

Nice Try has the theatrical, carefully performed tone of the off-off-Broadway one-woman show rather than the casual conversational style of a stand-up.

A dual coming-of-age account with oblique commentary on the shifting statuses of father-son relationships over time, presented as Two Go Mad In Holland, this is a warmly relatable and understatedly ...

The winners have been revealed for this year’s Malcolm Hardee Awards. The awards are handed out in the memory of the comic, club-owner and prankster and are designed to ‘celebrate and promote the ...

Pear are such an established part of the Fringe now, with this, their fourth sketch show in a row, that any tweaks to their tried and tested formula feel like tinkering under the hood of a well-oiled ...

As a straight woman of indeterminate but escalating years as this show becomes more candid, Prashasti Singh is nevertheless identifiably an unmarried woman – a demographic which patriarchal Indian ...