LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year opens with a £1,000 prize
There’s one sentence in the entry rules for this year’s LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year that matters more than the rest. It will quietly…
Only 16 of 402 Edinburgh Fringe shows got the £2,500 grant this year
Four hundred and two shows applied to the Edinburgh Fringe’s Keep It Fringe fund this year, and sixteen got the money. That’s a hit rate…
Magners’ funded Fringe run comes with a 60% profit share
The funded Fringe run that five comics are fighting over on 30 June isn’t quite the free month in Edinburgh it sounds like. Read the…
Audible backs the Edinburgh Comedy Awards with a £10,000 prize
Romesh Ranganathan spent £5,000 of his own money on a comedy prize this week. He said he was “absolutely delighted to give the public impression…
Chortle’s Fast Fringe books 30 acts into 140 minutes for £15
The maths gets there before the laughs do. Chortle has put 30 acts on the bill for its London Fast Fringe preview at the Pleasance…
Bristol Comedy Garden has five acts a night for £29
Five comedians a bill, a flat £29 a ticket, and by the time you read this you probably can’t get in. Bristol Comedy Garden pitches…
Jack Whitehall taped a stand-up chat show for Disney+
Disney+ is where you go for Baby Yoda, the Marvel back catalogue and a quantity of Bluey that should probably concern someone. It is now,…
Virgin Voyages puts 15 comics on a £1,052 week at sea
The Valiant Lady leaves Portsmouth on 20 August, sails to Zeebrugge for Bruges, then on to Amsterdam. It overnights in Hamburg and rolls back into…
Sarah Millican puts £4,000 into the Edinburgh newcomer prize
Sarah Millican won the Edinburgh Comedy Awards best newcomer prize in 2008 and used the money to pay off her car loan. Eighteen years on…
Live Comedy Association tells fans to email MPs about a £1bn sector
The Live Comedy Association reckons the UK’s live comedy sector is worth more than a billion pounds a year. This week it asked you, personally,…