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New Summer Comedy Festival Announced For London's Southbank
This Summer, London’s Southbank gets funnier with a brand new three-day comedy featival from June 20 - 22.Get ready for Big Fat Fest – a multi-venue comedy crawl featuring stand-up, podcasts and... more
Join The Edinburgh Comedy Awards Panel
Do you want to go to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for free?Think you could handle more than 100 hours of comedy in two weeks?Then you may have what it takes to be a public member of the Edinburgh... more
Radio 4 Comedy for Matt Forde
Matt Forde (The Royal Variety Performance, Spitting Image, Have I Got News For You, British Scandal) is set to host The Matt Forde Focus Group, his first series for BBC... more
Alex Horne On Pringles, Taskmaster, The Horne Section, Toasties & More
Taskmaster creator and star of the Horne Section Alex Horne is the latest guest on Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett's award-winning foodie podcast Dish.Among other things Alex talked about... more
Anthropic to Run AI Workshops Designed for Edinburgh Fringe Artists
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced the continuation of their partnership with the AI research and development company Anthropic, as the Official Education Partner of the Fringe... more
Chris McCausland ITV Chat Show Not Coming Back
Chris McCausland's ITV1 morning chat show will not be coming back.The Strictly winner has stepped away from the weekend programmme, his publicist says, to look at other opportunities.Since winning... more
BBC Launches Love At first Laugh To Help Singletons Find Romance Through Comedy
This spring, BBC Creative, the BBC’s in-house creative agency, is launching Love at First Laugh, a playful new campaign using iPlayer’s comedy collection to explore whether shared humour could be the... more
So You Think You’re Funny? Winner Joins Blue Book Agency
Blue Book Management has announced thst they now represent Samira Banks, who won So You Think You’re Funny? in Edinburgh in 2023 and has also been a finalist in Leicester Square Theatre New... more
Gilded Balloon Anounces Smack The Pony Reunion, Rosie O'Donnell, alan Davies And More For Fringe
Gilded Balloon has announced a huge roster of legendary names to celebrate its 40th anniversary this August. The Edinburgh-owned venue will welcome Alan Davies, Rosie O’Donnell, Smack the Pony,... more
Edinburgh Fringe to Celebrate Comic Strip with Special Shows
The classic comedy The Comic Strip Presents is to be celebrated at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer with special screenings and Q&As with the stars.The news was exclusively revealed in... more
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