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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…
Ten quid to be a booker “I think a licence would be good and just make sure it’s very accessible, like maybe 10 quid to…
Sally Holloway spent over a decade on the circuit braced for one particular shout out of the dark. When she added it up for Chortle…
The deal Crudi Dench offers an audience at the Iron Belly is simple. They’ll crowd-surf naked if the show manages to solve one caller’s problem.…
