Sam Nicoresti has won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for the best show on the Fringe, becoming the first trans comedian to take the accolade. Ayoade Bamgboye won the best newcomer prize. Accepting the ...

Sam Nicoresti has won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for the best show on the Fringe, becoming the first trans comedian to take the accolade. Accepting the prize, they said: ‘A year ago, my girlfriend ...

Ayoade Bamgboye has won the best newcomer prize at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Accepting the award, she said: ‘This is so nice. I’m hungover’ and thanked her team and her parents, adding; ‘This means ...

When the shortlists were announced last week, Sam Bryant, chair of the judging panel, said: ‘The Edinburgh Comedy Awards have always been a launchpad for the next generation of talent, and that role ...

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 ...

Sam Jay is a strikingly abrasive act, eschewing eye contact, staring into the middle distance while speaking; often holding her mic in crossed arms; making big, sweeping generalisations, with little ...

Caroline McEvoy is unfailingly nice in her Fringe debut, making latecomers feel welcome, chatting charmingly to the audience (no ‘comedian DESTROYS’ crowd work clips will come from this) and ensuring ...

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 ...

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.