The Edinburgh Comedy Awards panel for 2016 has been announced.The Awards, produced by Nica Burns (pictured) are sponsored by lastminute.com for the first time this year.There will, as is traditional... more
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The 2016 Fringe Central Welcome Address will be delivered by award-winning comedian Sam Wills, also known as The Boy With Tape On His Face, on Friday 5 August at 1pm at Fringe Central.The annual... more
Sarah Millican is to do a special one-off gig at the Edinburgh Fringe in support of the Leicester Comedy Festival.The show will feature Millican plus a line-up of special guests. The performance... more
Bianca Del Rio, one of the stars of cult TV show Ru Paul's Drag Race, is to tour the UK with her latest show ‘Not Today Satan’. Del Rio's dates run from February 3 - 10 next year.The self-... more
A memorial plaque is to be unveiled in York in honour of comedy legend Frankie Howerd. Full Monty actor and York’s Cultural Ambassador Mark Addy will do the unveiling at 6.30pm on... more
Tilusha Ghelani is to join Sky Comedy as Commissioning Editor. She will be responsible for commissioning and executive producing new and established television comedies. Operating across... more
The line-up has been announced for the final of The Sitcom Trials So You Think You Write Funny competition, which sets out to find the best new situation comedy writers and performers the... more
Comedian Steve McNeil and Rob Sedgebeer have created a new Guinness World Record for the most people simultaneously playing a single game of Pong. They broke the record of 251 by getting 286 people... more
Two new awards have been annnounced for this year's Edinburgh Fringe.Comedian Will Franken is launching the Defining The Norm Awards. Shows will be judged by Franken and his team for "... more
Alice Lowe has been shortlisted for the inaugural Screen International Horror Rising Star Award.The new award, celebrating the work of emerging talent in genre cinema, has been launched... more
