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Sixteen MPs wanted to put their names on the Live Comedy Association’s letter to the Culture Secretary and weren’t allowed to. Parliamentary protocol, apparently, which…
Jim Gaffigan once explained his whole approach using a box of doughnuts. “It’s not really necessary to curse when you’re discussing doughnuts,” he told the…
“It’s the last Friday of the Fringe and people are sitting with half-full rooms,” Susie McCabe posted in the closing days of August. By the…
Five nominees, one £5,000 pot, and a creditor owed £103 Big Difference Company was the collapsed charity that ran Leicester Comedy Festival. Buried in its…
Ten places, eleven names, up to £15,000 apiece. The BBC named the 2026 cohort of its Comedy Collective bursary on 28 August, during the Edinburgh…
“I’m the happiest I’ve ever been, I wasn’t even this happy on my wedding day,” Kate Dolan said on Wednesday afternoon at the Three Sisters.…
A free show with a price on it Buried in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s guidance to artists this year is a sample listing for a…
Four at Monkey Barrel, two at Pleasance Chris Cantrill’s Rewilding goes on at 12:10 in the afternoon at Monkey Barrel Comedy’s Tron room, which is…
An act at this year’s Fringe bought a domain that sounds almost exactly like the UK’s biggest comedy news site, then posted a six-star review…
“We love hosts, but not in your clip.” That line is sitting in a festival submission guide written by Ariel Julie. It exists because so…
