Craft UK, the organisation fighting for more official recognition for the broader comedy industry alongside the Live Comedy Association, has also sent an open letter to new PM Andy Burnham. They focus, in particular, on tax reform.
Their letter is as follows:
The Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
Home of Larry The Cat London SW1A 2AA
Thursday 23 July 2026
The Live Comedy Association has sent an open letter to new Prime Minister asking for more official recognition and support for the live comedy sector.
Craft UK, which is also fighting for more support and recognition has also sent an open letter. You can read their letter here.
The LCA letter is as follows:
"The Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP
Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
London SW1A 2AA
Following the success of its first two editions, BROWN SAUCE, the leading London-based monthly comedy club for South Asian comedy, is thrilled to announce the return of its collaboration with Tara Theatre for the third edition of The Comedy Lab.
Taking place on Saturday 17th October 2026, this special event continues its mission of discovering, mentoring and showcasing the next generation of South Asian comedic talent through a unique combination of professional development and live performance.
Joe and David’s Magical Sitcom Tour follows comedians and sitcom obsessives Joe Wilkinson and David Earl as they set out to properly indulge their passion for their favourite British comedies. Both have spent years starring in and writing their own sitcoms, and now they’re turning their attention to the shows that made them laugh the most.
Taking it in turns to plan surprise days out for each other, the pair revisit the comedy classics that lodged themselves in their hearts years ago and never left.
Television production company Hat Trick Productions have announced that they will be producing a slate of live comedy shows at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
In further news, the company is setting up its own live comedy touring arm, bringing together the creative forces of Queenie Miller (Queenie Miller Live) and Simon Morley and Becca Thomason of Margate’s Chump’s Co
What happens when you combine razor-sharp stand-up with live illustration? Comedian, writer and cartoonist Henry Paker is set to find out in his brand-new show, Pencil Case, a unique evening that blends inventive comedy with live drawing. The tour opens this September and will take in dates until Spring 2027.
Comedian, producer and Edinburgh obsessive Stephen Gordon (Mirror, LADBible) brings Notes: The Comedy B-Sides - a late-night rotating format show - to Just the Tonic at The Caves, Edinburgh Fringe, 6th–30th August 2026.
In an era of meticulously rehearsed solo hours, Notes: The Comedy B-Sides pulls back the curtain on the process that comes before the polished show.
Comedian Romesh Ranganathan has explained why he agreed to front the BBC's new all-star spectacular ad which made its debut during the World Cup Final on Sunday night.
The Sussex-based stand-up said: "I strongly believe that the BBC should exist. It’s not without its flaws and there have definitely been times and issues where I wished it could have dealt with things differently – but it adds so much to our lives and I’m really proud of it.
British silent clown and visual comedian Darryl J Carrington brings ‘Tennish’ to the Edinburgh Fringe. The show will be at the Underbelly Bristo Square Clover for the month of August. It's playful, chaotic, visual and all about ambition, performance and failure.
Is BBC comedy getting a bit soft? Following in the slipstream if the winning sentimentality of Small Prophets comes Ann Droid, in which a lonely widow played by Sue Johnston forms an unlikely emtional bond with the titular robot, played by a deadpan, suitably robotic Diane Morgan.
Of course, as is the nature of odd couple stories like this they don't start off as bosom buddies.
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