The shortlists have been announced for the 2025 Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Nica Burns, director of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, said: ‘2025 is another outstanding year of great comedy. Many of those ...

The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards have announced the shortlists for their five awards handed out at the Edinburgh Fringe, with 25 shows highlighted. Nominees have also been announced for best tech, joke ...

Benji Waterhouse has saved a life during his day off at the Edinburgh Fringe. The comedian, who is an NHS psychiatrist by day, performed the Heimlich manoeuvre on a woman he saw choking in the ...

There’s nothing unusual in Matt Parker having 8,000 flyers printed for his Edinburgh Fringe run – bit it is unusual that every one is unique. The comedian and mathematician revealed the stunt on ...

Dexter Procter: The 10-Year-Old Doctor will star an array of familiar comedy names including Peter Serafinowicz, as the title character’s jealous colleague Dr Drake, as well as Jameela Jamil, Mike ...

Cariad Lloyd has undergone emergency surgery after suffering a hernia while on holiday in Cornwall. The comedian and podcaster took to social media to praise staff at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in ...

Robo Bingo 2.0 starts as a relatively conventional game of number-dabbing, even if IT whizzes Lloyd Henning and Peter Sutton have come up with some alternative, and very funny, new calls.

Susan Riddell is to appear at the Edinburgh Fringe – despite being banned from this city after being charged with a terrorism-related offence. The comedian will beam her show How Do You Sleep At Night ...

The Liverpudlian comic has aphantasia, meaning he’s unable to generate imagery in his mind, a condition which he describes as ‘having no imagination,’ although that’s probably comedic shorthand, as is ...

‘Poor little rich girl’ is what someone called Sophie Garrad in a Pizza Express once, and her hackles have been raised ever since.

New York-based comic KC Shornima has a young Edna Mode thing going on. Tiny, with a cute bob, she delivers haughty, withering comedy in an upper crust drawl.

In losing 12st 3lbs since joining the group in January 2023, his waist has shrunk from 52 inches to 32. An in recognition of his transformation, James has been named Slimming World’s Man of the Year ...