Richard Herring has announced a UK tour for his latest show, Lord of the Dance Settee, following a successful Edinburgh run. The tour officially starts on October 15, 2014 in Manchester and ends on... more
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Comedian Simon Evans will be filming his first live DVD in Brighton on September 15. It will be at the Theatre Royal and will be a greatest hits set drawing on material from his recent live shows and... more
Beyond The Joke HQ has been having a post-Fringe clear-out and has come across a previously undiscovered box containing pristine copies of Beyond A Joke, the book that helped to inspire this website... more
The 2014 Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award winner John Kearns will be playing an extended run of his prize-winning show Shtick in London this autumn. Kearns will be at the Soho Theatre from September... more
Update 4/9/14: News is coming in that 81-year-old comedian Joan Rivers has died in New York. She had been hospitalised last week. She was reportedly having her vocal chords checked when she... more
Lena Dunham, the creator of hit TV comedy Girls, is coming to London for a one-off appearance onstage at the Royal Festival Hall on October 31 with Caitlin Moran. Tickets go on sale today.According... more
Will Franken has won Best Performer in the inaugural Barry Awards, the new prize for Fringe performers voted for by Fringe performers. Bec Hill, who set out to write an award-winning show after she... more
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival ends today, following 49,497 performances of 3,193 shows in 299 venues across Scotland’s capital city. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced that by... more
Scotland’s longest running comedy club – The Gilded Balloon – is expanding west with the launch of a brand new club in Glasgow, opening on Friday, August 29.Hosted in collaboration... more
Irishman Aidan Strangeman beat off stiff competition from eight of Britain and Ireland’s up and coming comic talents to be crowned the winner of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s stand-up comedy ... more
