The Ecole Philippe Gaulier clown school has produced a number of memorable Fringe performers in recent years, and Jessica Barton looks set to join their ranks with this, her quirky take on the prim, ...

It came after Hunter clashed with antisemitism campaigners Mark Lewis and Mandy Blumenthal at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe. The pair heckled an anti-Israel joke, with the response reportedly turning ...

Finally, Sam Nicoresti, who I just think is going to have an absolutely massive Fringe. Their last show Wokeflake was bewilderingly high-concept, mixing satirical character comedy with frog-based ...

Frank Skinner has revealed that he ended up in A&E with severe sunburn after working on an archaeological dig in extreme heat.

Vir Das has dropped the trailer for his new Netflix special Fool Volume. The show was filmed in a stadium in Mumbai, London’s Union Chapel and the Comedy Cellar in New York. But as the Indian comic ...

Comedian Louise Young and YouTuber Hayley Morris plan a trip to Europe on the hoof in a new Channel 4 travel show. All Plans On Deck is a commercial tie-in with P&O Ferries, with the premise that the ...

Most Haunted presenter Yvette Fielding says she communicates with Eric Morecambe after buying his old desk. The paranormal investigator said: ‘Every time I sit down to write and do my paranormal ...

More explicit humour relies a lot on shocking the audience (rather than on allusion and confounding expectations) and not surprisingly usually appeals more to a younger audience. The laughter is based ...

Technicians who run the sound and lights for Edinburgh Fringe comedy shows are to be honoured with their own award for the first time this year. Comedian Elf Lyons has put up a £500 prize to go to ‘an ...

Much has already been written and said about the Oasis reunion… but that’s not going to stop Broken News jumping on the bandwagon. Here reporter Chip Fusty speaks about how ‘two elderly bothers from ...

Michael Palin performed a deleted scene from Life Of Brian yesterday, the first time he has delivered Monty Python material on stage in his Sheffield hometown for more than a decade.

THE LIVELY LIFE OF Lindsey Santoro: A new stand-up series based on the diary of the 37-year-old working-class, no-nonsense Brummy comedian still keeps. This, the first of four episodes, is entitled ...