Here is the full text of the welcome speech Nica Burns, who runs the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards, made today at a lunch attended by industry folk and journalists at Ghillie Dhu in the city... more
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Award-winning podcast No Such Thing As A Fish is coming to the West End for a special live performance this autumn.The spin-off of BBC2’s QI is presented by the “QI Elves” and is packed full of... more
Comedy fans can now vote to choose three more finalists for the Magners New Comedy Act 2015.George Rigden from Bristol, Lolly Adefope from London and Ingrid Dahle from Brighton have already been... more
Following the popularity of last year's commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Hancock's Half Hour, Kevin McNally is back as the lad 'imself, with the recording of five more episodes... more
Comedians Nick Helm, James Acaster, Nish Kumar and Marcus Brigstocke are among the performers appearing in a new unrehearsed show about heterosexual female sexuality at the Edinburgh Fringe.... more
The Edinburgh Fringe show Dicing With Dr Death presented by Dr Philip Nitschke, which is about euthanasia, received a visit from the police today at its venue, Just The Tonic's Caves. According to a... more
Actor, comedian and award-winning writer Reece Shearsmith joins Peter Capaldi (the Doctor) and Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald) as he takes-up a guest role in a special episode of Doctor Who, returning... more
Comedian Daniel Sloss is one of the stand-up stars of Spiegeltent at Canary Wharf, the multi-genre festival running in London from September 10 - 20. Also on the bill are Alex Horne and The Horne... more
Maverick promoter Bob Slayer has challenged other buses in Edinburgh to a race. Slayer is putitng shows on in Edinburgh this year on his BlundaBus, which has recently been a pop-up venue in Croydon.... more
Andy Hollingworth has been making pictures of comedians since 1995. I could not run Beyond The Joke without access to his huge archive. One of his first subjects was old school stand-up Charlie... more
