25 Aug
15:59
Writing a tight five that survives King Gong’s three red cards
Thirty comics, five minutes each, three red cards The Comedy Store’s King Gong runs on the last Monday of every month. The club’s own listing…
Open Comedy Newsroom
Page 7
The running order
25 Aug
15:51
Garry Starr puts £1,600 in so every ISH nominee gets £100
The hundred quid only exists if you’re standing in the room There’s a £100 note with your name on it at the Counting House on…
24 Aug
08:29
UK comedians earned £21,143 in 2025, down £5,635 on 2024
Seventeen per cent of them made nothing at all Seventeen per cent of the comedians who filled in the UK Live Comedy Sector Survey earned…
24 Aug
07:51
Birmingham’s Breaking Talent Award 2026 pays the winner in a mug
The prize is a mug. An actual one, the Mug Of Victory, handed over on stage at the Glee Club in the Arcadian. Five West…
24 Aug
07:35
How to compere a comedy night without losing the room
Geoff Whiting carries ten minutes he might never use Geoff Whiting has compered literally thousands of comedy shows and events. The first thing he does…
23 Aug
05:03
Leicester Comedy Festival owes £215,000 and the list is wrong
The Live Comedy Association is owed £103 by the charity behind Leicester Comedy Festival, for an event the LCA itself produced as part of the…
21 Aug
07:01
Tel Aviv court fines a comic £2,500 for a front-row fat joke
“You remind me of my cat. You’re as fat as she is.” That is the line, as the woman in the front row put it…
20 Aug
10:38
Comedians’ Choice Awards 2026 pay the winner in rehearsal time
“I’m so taken aback, I want to thank all the comedians who voted for me!” That was Alison Spittle collecting best show at the 2025…
19 Aug
15:44
Leicester Comedy Festival trustees get eight questions and a deadline
The people who ran the charity that owes comedians more than £100,000 were invited onto a video call on Sunday, and they declined. The exact…
15 Aug
09:04
So You Think You’re Funny is back at Teviot with a train sponsor
£13.50 gets you into a So You Think You’re Funny heat at 21:45 in Gilded Balloon Teviot, which is probably the cheapest ticket in Edinburgh…
