The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025 have announced one additional sponsor for their Awards this year, James Corden.
The award winning actor, best known for his roles in Gavin & Stacey, The History Boys and Into The Woods, and host of TV chat show The Late, Late Show, is the final backer of this year's Awards, donating £10,000 to the prize fund. 100% of the sponsorship of the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards goes to the artists in the form of prizes.
Prime Video has unveiled the line-up for the next instalment of hit UK Original Last One Laughing.
The trailer has been released for brand new sketch comedy show, Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping, as David Mitchell and Robert Webb return to Channel 4 next month.
The show sees Mitchell and Webb combine forces with a host of exciting and innovative future stars, marking a bold return to British sketch comedy with an innovative merging of comedy minds across generations.
Phil McIntyre Live Ltd are delighted to announce that fan favourite comedian Milton Jones will be returning to the stage this September with his HA!MILTON live tour following succesful treatment for prostate cancer. The tour will now take in dates through to November 2025. Tickets are available now from www.miltonjones.com.
Award-winning topical panel show What Just Happened? returns to BBC Radio Wales after two successful radio series, two TV specials filmed for BBC Cymru Wales and a win at the Celtic Media Festival 2024 in the Comedy (Sound) category. Series 3 welcomes the return of host Robin Morgan (Mock the Week) and resident panellist Kiri Pritchard-McLean (Live at the Apollo).
Comedian Matt Forde, currently performing his new hour to packed houses at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, has announced his biggest tour to date.
From 28th January to 10th June 2026, Matt is set to tour theatres nationwide - including London’s Bloomsbury Theatre on 14th February - with Defying Gravity, a show about finding positivity in life despite all the evidence to the contrary in politics and his own health.
Two years ago Urooj Ashfaq came to Edinburgh and carried off the prize for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
She also received a review – and she’s been thinking about it ever since.
A male comedy reviewer, let’s call him Steve, described Urooj as conservative, saying her material lacked edge – so she’s come back blazing to prove him wrong.
Normally I’d suggest that bearing a grudge against a reviewer is not a terribly strong premise for a comedy show – b
Eric Rushton is slowly but surely making a name for himself in stand-up. In 2023 he won Channel 4's Sean Lock Comedy Award, which brought him to a wider audience. After an impressive 2024 Edinburgh he is back at the Fringe with a new show entitled Innkeeper.
Grace Mulvey was the first recipient of the Galton and Simpson Bursary Award aimed at writers so it is obvious that she can be funny on paper (or computer screen or phone or wherever you see things written down these days). Her latest show, Did You Hear We're All Going To Die? underlines that the London-based Irish comic is also hilarious onstage (or in person, or wherever you happen to see her). She has the word funny running through her veins.
Following two sellout runs earlier this year, Marcus Brigstocke has extended his show Vitruvian Mango into the Autumn.
What are men for? Most heavy things can be lifted by machines and most problems can be solved by computers and most puddles can be crossed without us gallantly draping our capes over them - so are we fellas of any use at all?
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