The winner if this year's So You Think You’re Funny? Competition is Luca Cupani.The London-based Italian comedian was chosen as the winner in a final at the Gilded Balloon. He only started doing... more
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Comedian Mark Watson is doing a secret gig in a toilet. And you could join him. To celebrate the seventeenth annual Gut Week (31 August – 6 September), Watson is performing a set... more
Website Fringepig has announced the shortlist for its inaugural Ham Fist award. The idea is that the award goes to the Edinburgh reviewer who most misunderstood what they were looking at. The... more
The nominations for the 2015 Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award are... James Acaster: RepresentJoseph Morpurgo: Soothing Sounds for BabyKieran Hodgson: LanceNish... more
Comedian Stephen Carlin says that he has been "fired" from PBH's Free Fringe and has had to find a new home for his show. He posted the following on his Facebook page last night.'I have been duly... more
TV channel Dave has announced the winner of the eighth annual award for Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe.In his first ever full length show, Edinburgh pun-dit Darren Walsh... more
The nominations for this year's Malcolm Hardee Awards have just been announced. They are as follows: COMIC ORIGINALITYMichael BrunstromRichard GaddThe Story BeastMr Twonkey CUNNING... more
Katie Hopkins is to appear at the Edinburgh Fringe to take Dr Philip 'Dr Death' Nitschke's euthanasia machine for a test drive.In July Hopkins advocated the introduction of euthanasia vans to deal... more
Richard Gadd has been crowned winner of the Amused Moose Comedy Award 2015. Musical impressionist Jess Robinson was voted People's Champion at the grand final at the Space @ Symposium Hall. Full... more
Andrew Lawrence is recording a new sitcom for BBC Radio 4. Episodes of There is No Escape, also written by Lawrence, are being recorded next month in London.The BBC info is as follows: "Andrew... more
