12 Jul
05:52
Club Comedy Seattle closes July 15 after no buyer steps up
The last show at Club Comedy Seattle goes up on Wednesday. Once that room empties the lights stay off on a stage that spent five…
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The latest updates from the global comedy scene, including industry announcements, major deals, legal stories, platform changes, and breaking news affecting comedians, venues, and audiences.
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11 Jul
15:35
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…
10 Jul
04:51
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…
9 Jul
15:01
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…
9 Jul
14:33
A US tour now starts with a $1,615 visa bill for comics
The cheapest part of a US tour is the flight The paperwork to stand on an American stage used to cost a British comic $460.…
9 Jul
14:27
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…
4 Jul
05:32
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…
3 Jul
16:12
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…
22 Jun
09:33
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…
20 Jun
17:31
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…
