Chaos reigns when the hyper-religious Kathryn attempts a cookery demonstration in the heart of America’s Bible belt. But while there are plenty of fun ingredients in Kate Owens’ physical comedy show, ...

Law spends the hour bouncing distractedly between different half-formed routines and ideas, with frequent screeching brakes applied to talk to the audience, mess around with the air conditioning, and ...

Underbelly’s annual Big Brain Tumour Benefit last night raised £15,203 for cancer research. The one-off show was hosted by Ivo Graham and featured performances from David O’Doherty, Michelle Wolf ...

Voting has opened for this year’s Comedians’ Choice Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe. There will again be three awards: Best Show, Best Newcomer and Best Person, who can be a performer or off-stage hero ...

Munya Chawawa, Judi Love and Michelle De Swarte have been cast in Channel 4 comedy Schooled. The forthcoming six-part series was created by Delia-René Donaldson based on her experience working in ...

The stand-up from Antrim, Northern Ireland, takes home £250 for scooping the (Some Guy Called) Dave Joke of the Fringe title. The slightly tongue-in-cheek contest was launched by comic Will Mars in ...

Alex Prescot improvises some short songs based around audience members at Chortle’s Fast Fringe in this new clip. The comic also admits that playing the ukulele is ‘a bit of a red flag’ before sharing ...

Russell Kane is making a new BBC podcast about Evil Animals. The six new episodes – launching next week – follow seven years of Evil Genius, in which the comedian and his guests reappraised the ...

His big news is that he ‘destroyed his life’ by walking away from a mortgage and an eight-year relationship, but he seems to have landed on his feet with a new partner who he takes an obvious pleasure ...

Anna Rae George and Fred Carver were jointly crowned winners of the 2025 Chortle Student Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe on Monday. Here are the sets of all the finalists, filmed at the Pleasance ...

In terms of the styles of comedy on offer, this was probably one of the most diverse Chortle student finals yet. Comparing an analytical set written specifically about the competition with a whimsical ...