Learnmore Jonasi beats the $27m Lion King joke lawsuit
Learnmore Jonasi was on stage at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles when he found out the news. A Grammy-winning composer wanted $27 million off…
Dublin comics win planning for a 200-seat Craic Den theatre
Eddie Mullarkey has spent years running comedy nights in rooms he doesn’t own. Now he’s got Dublin City Council’s blessing to build one, and he’s…
A Netflix boss will chair the Edinburgh Comedy Awards
The person who will chair the panel handing out the Fringe’s most career-making comedy prize this August has a day job. The rest of her…
Five Months On: A Hardship Fund for Leicester’s Unpaid Comedians, and the Festival’s Venue Is Gone
When we reported in May that 78 per cent of acts at the 2026 Leicester Comedy Festival had missed their 19 April settlement date, the…
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…