Leicester’s comedy charity took £499,562 last year and still went bust
Big Difference Company Limited took £499,562 in the year to 29 June 2025 and spent £495,352 of it. That is the last set of numbers…
Edinburgh’s official Fringe digs check out a day before the festival ends
Book into the Edinburgh Fringe’s official artist village this year and the last date you can pick is 30 August. The 2026 Fringe runs until…
Fringe 2026 has 1,401 comedy shows – the pick plays at 23.25
The most exciting find of 2026 goes on at 23.25 Chortle’s Tim Harding spent his most-anticipated column pointing at a man in a papier mache…
Underbelly Boulevard breaks its Soho lease and shuts in January
“Sometimes you just have to hold your cow-shaped hands up and accept it.” That’s the sentence Ed Bartlam and Charlie Wood, the directors of Underbelly,…
The new Comedy Fee Tracker shows openers on $500 a night
Luke Null got $2,000 to warm up a $70,000 room In 2021 the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign paid Colin Jost $70,000 for an hour…
BBC axes Live at the Apollo with one series still to tape
Rhod Gilbert, John Bishop and 6.29 million viewers The biggest night Live at the Apollo ever had was a December 2009 episode with Rhod Gilbert…
NextUp will stream 16 Fringe shows for £50 this August
Fifty quid buys you the whole of NextUp’s Edinburgh Fringe slate on your sofa this August. The press material sells that as £3.30 a show.…
Assembly moves 17 Fringe shows to St Andrew Square after fire
The email nobody wants ten days before their Fringe run opens went out on Monday 27 July. It told 17 companies their venue had shifted…
Comedy clubs miss out on Burnham’s 20% business rates cut
The door charge is the bit that disqualifies you The government’s own guidance sets out which venues qualify for its business rates relief. Buried in…
Edinburgh’s visitor levy starts today – the 5-night cap spares Fringe acts
“I honestly think Edinburgh will lose the festival,” Elf Lyons told Midlothian View this week. It’s a heavy thing to say about the event she…