Due to a family emergency Yumna Mohamed has had to pull out of this year's BBC New Comedy Award Final on Sunday.
Late night extravaganza The Asylum, led by Phil Nichol and Kirsty Newton, has been forced to look for a new venue following complaints that it is too noisy.
Update 23/8/17: Mae Martin has been nominated for a lastminute.com Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show. See nominees here.
Comedian and junior doctor Ed Patrick had to pause his show to attend to a collapsed audience member.
At the very start of Suzi Ruffell’s set she knocked the microphone out of its stand. This was the only slip-up in an hour of excellent comedy that should win her plenty of plaudits this August.
You’ve got to have a USP in Edinburgh and Ruffell’s unique selling point is that she is a working class lesbian, not one of “your Toksvigs, yours Baldings, your Perkins.” She is not exactly like a real-life member of East Enders though. She has gone up in the world and Keeping It Classy is all about bridging that divide.
London comedian Ian Stone has started a crowdfunding campaign to raise the money to publish a memoir about his music-fixated childhood. To Be Someone is about growing up in North London and being obsessed with The Jam (for younger readers he means Paull Weller's band, not the fruit-based sandwich spread). Stone has to pay for the initial launch through publisher Unbound, which is where this appeal comes in.
It is often said that the best comedians make you see the world in a fresh way. Well, Jenny Bede has certainly done that with her answer to my first question. Bede is the first comedian to point out that it doesn't actually make any sense. I may have to reconsider every life decision I have ever made. But before then I'll go and see her new show, Eggtime. Bede is best known for her viral videos, which have attracted millions and millions of YouTube hits.
The guests have been announced for the third series of John Bishop: In Conversation With… on the W Channel.
The line-up will include Hollywood icon Dame Joan Collins, Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain, comedy legend John Cleese, model and entrepreneur Katie Price and Jimmy Carr.
Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby has picked up another award for her widely acclaimed latest show Nanette.
Gadsby won the Best Comedy Performer prize at the 17th Helpmann Awards in Sydney on Monday night. She has already won the Barry Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
The other nominated acts were Joel Creasey, Nazeem Hussain, Tom Ballard, Aunty Donna and Sammy J.
Science comedy phenomenon Festival of the Spoken Nerd have announced a new tour for Autumn 2017 entitled You Can’t Polish A Nerd. The tour starts on September 20 at Parabola Arts, as part of the Cheltenham Comedy Festival and currently finishes with a major London date on November 27 at the Duchess Theatre in London.
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