Nice Try has the theatrical, carefully performed tone of the off-off-Broadway one-woman show rather than the casual conversational style of a stand-up.

As a straight woman of indeterminate but escalating years as this show becomes more candid, Prashasti Singh is nevertheless identifiably an unmarried woman – a demographic which patriarchal Indian ...

99 Red Balloons In A Trench Coat is a heady mix of dumb wordplay and imaginative concepts - you’ll never look at the extra chair in a Travelodge room in quite the same way again. Yes, there are duds, ...

This year’s shortlist for the Act that Should Make A Million Quid features seven names: Alice Cockayne, Andrew O'Neill, Christopher MacArthur-Boyd, Molly McGuinness, Phil Ellis, Sam Nicoresti and ...

So You Think You’re Funny? is the third, and most high-profile, competition Madeleine Brettingham has won this year, and with such a distinctive and all-encompassing worldview, it’s easy to see why.

‘Series 7 is a full-throttle farewell packed with everything fans love: lederhosen-fuelled escapades, school reunions gone wildly off the rails, and gangsters more unhinged than ever. But amid the ...

James Corden has put up £10,000 prize money for this year’s ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards. His contribution means that the best show and best newcomer winners will get £4,000 each with £3,000 for the ...

Alison Spittle won the best show accolade in The Comedians’ Choice Awards last night. Her show Big was selected by other comics performing at the Edinburgh Fringe as the best of the festival ...

Madeleine Brettingham has become the 38th winner of the So You Think You're Funny? comedy newcomer competition. Reb Day and Joel Walker came second and third place respectively, coming out top from ...

Last One Laughing has been named best entertainment series at the Edinburgh TV Festival awards. Big Boys was named best comedy series, and Sophie Willan took home best TV actor – comedy for her role ...

Seymour Mace has resumed his Edinburgh Fringe run, just two days after sustaining severe head injuries in road accident. The comedian also damaged his leg when he was involved in a horrific collision ...

Jess Carrivick’s show opens with a montage of adorable home videos she and her brother Jack shot as children, between the years of 1995 and 2001. Things have not changed much, she’s still playing ...