David Cameron once personally asked Tina Fey to come to the UK to change the way the British TV comedy industry works. The 30 Rock creator revealed that she was summoned to a meeting with him at NBC’s ...

Ayoade Bamgboye has won the literal Biggest Award In Comedy for her debut Edinburgh Fringe show Swings and Roundabouts.

The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards have announced a total of 19 winners will share its five awards this year. Phil Ellis and Canadian comedian Mark Forward shared the best show award, with Amelia ...

Tiff Stevenson has lured her audience here under false pretences, with a sultry poster and a title, Post-Coital, that suggests sexy times. But as she enters middle age and her 17-year relationship ...

But there are two aspects that perhaps drive Toxic Bastard further than his previous hours on his preoccupation. Firstly, on the allowances that others make for him, he's acquiring a darker, harder ...

Pear are such an established part of the Fringe now, with this, their fourth sketch show in a row, that any tweaks to their tried and tested formula feel like tinkering under the hood of a well-oiled ...

Nice Try has the theatrical, carefully performed tone of the off-off-Broadway one-woman show rather than the casual conversational style of a stand-up.

99 Red Balloons In A Trench Coat is a heady mix of dumb wordplay and imaginative concepts - you’ll never look at the extra chair in a Travelodge room in quite the same way again. Yes, there are duds, ...

This year’s shortlist for the Act that Should Make A Million Quid features seven names: Alice Cockayne, Andrew O'Neill, Christopher MacArthur-Boyd, Molly McGuinness, Phil Ellis, Sam Nicoresti and ...

As a straight woman of indeterminate but escalating years as this show becomes more candid, Prashasti Singh is nevertheless identifiably an unmarried woman – a demographic which patriarchal Indian ...

So You Think You’re Funny? is the third, and most high-profile, competition Madeleine Brettingham has won this year, and with such a distinctive and all-encompassing worldview, it’s easy to see why.

Alison Spittle won the best show accolade in The Comedians’ Choice Awards last night. Her show Big was selected by other comics performing at the Edinburgh Fringe as the best of the festival ...