Forging an uncertain path between surrealist stand-up and agitprop, Andrew O'Neill's latest Fringe offering retains all the fire and conviction of their best shows since they became an explicitly ...

Ayoade Bamgboye has won the best newcomer prize at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Accepting the award, she said: ‘This is so nice. I’m hungover’ and thanked her team and her parents, adding; ‘This means ...

But quite whether people fit so neatly into the tribes ascribed to them is a key theme of Iconic Breath, a show named after her son’s mispronunciation of Godzilla’s superpower ‘atomic breath’.

Sam Nicoresti has won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for the best show on the Fringe, becoming the first trans comedian to take the accolade. Ayoade Bamgboye won the best newcomer prize. Accepting the ...

Devin Gray got divorced and his wife didn't have the decency to make the split anything but amicable, leaving him grasping for recriminatory feelings to channel into his Fringe show.

David Cameron once personally asked Tina Fey to come to the UK to change the way the British TV comedy industry works. The 30 Rock creator revealed that she was summoned to a meeting with him at NBC’s ...

Sam Nicoresti has won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for the best show on the Fringe, becoming the first trans comedian to take the accolade. Accepting the prize, they said: ‘A year ago, my girlfriend ...

When the shortlists were announced last week, Sam Bryant, chair of the judging panel, said: ‘The Edinburgh Comedy Awards have always been a launchpad for the next generation of talent, and that role ...

Ayoade Bamgboye has won the literal Biggest Award In Comedy for her debut Edinburgh Fringe show Swings and Roundabouts.

The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards have announced a total of 19 winners will share its five awards this year. Phil Ellis and Canadian comedian Mark Forward shared the best show award, with Amelia ...

Sam Jay is a strikingly abrasive act, eschewing eye contact, staring into the middle distance while speaking; often holding her mic in crossed arms; making big, sweeping generalisations, with little ...

Caroline McEvoy is unfailingly nice in her Fringe debut, making latecomers feel welcome, chatting charmingly to the audience (no ‘comedian DESTROYS’ crowd work clips will come from this) and ensuring ...