Speed Queen is set in the last launderette on the Isle of Wight – though it may as well be Royston Vasey. For the world Ozzy Algar has so completely built shares the same sense of isolation and unease ...

We are greeted by the first of a number of mob bosses – mob bosses who will prove largely interchangeable – as CrimeLandTown is a riff on Sinatra-era gangster tropes, with all the lounge singers and ...

In Watch This When You Get Home, the mild-mannered stand-up describes himself as ‘yearny’ not ‘horny’, revelling in the romanticised idea of himself as a man with an unfulfilled longing for a crush, ...

Here’s musical comedian Bennet Kavanagh talking about his day job as a composer of lift music. It comes from his Edinburgh Fringe show, Crank Up The Volume!! (To A Reasonable Volume), which is on at ...

Channel 4 has released the first sketch from Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping. The sketch features Robert Webb and Stevie Martin as airport security guards issuing confusing instructions to ...

The literal biggest award in comedy is back - and bigger than ever. The giant inflatable trophy handed out by stand-up streaming service NextUp at the Edinburgh Fringe is this year 2.03m tall, a whole ...

Her alter-ego, apparently inspired by Liza Minnelli’s chaotically confident energy, has some pleasingly absurd non-sequiturs and bonkers life advice. However, the watch-and-repeat format of the dances ...

For Su Mi’s Fringe debut, the comic has settled on a unique visual presentation that mixes traditional clown tropes with elements that express something ineffable about growing up wanting to perform.

Here’s Jessie Nixon performing an extract from her debut Edinburgh Fringe show Don't Make Me Regret This. The Bristolian comedian – one of the five Chortle Hotshots tipped for good things this ...

Last year’s Sketch-Off winners James Trickey and Ted Milligan, aka Burger And A Pint, have gone their separate ways for now and are both bringing solo debuts to the Fringe.

As probably the only woman in the UK who combines comedy and rap, Amelia Hamilton takes to the stage with suitable swagger, boasting of her talent and insisting ‘I don’t need your permission/you’re ...

I recall dipping into a show last minute and watching a naked lady hair hanging from great heights and menstruating into a (suspicious) looking birthday cake. The cake in question was not eaten, ...