Anna Hale: Control Freak - Edinburgh Fringe 2025Introducing Anna Hale: comedian, singer-songwriter, control freak. She's written the jokes, the music and the lyrics. She's rigged the lights and sold ...

To demonstrate a comedy-writer’s job is safe from AI, Keen gets ChatGPT to write a routine on the spot and in the style of John Bishop. Of course, it’s not great – though I’ve seen human open spots ...

‘And it really pisses me off really, to be honest.’ • Sir Tony’s episode of How to Fail with Elizabeth Day is out today. While Sir Tony will be touring An Evening with Sir Tony Robinson – From ...

Theo Mason Wood calls his show ‘genre-defying’. A less generous observer – OK, me – would call it a mess, with the Berlin-based comedian throwing all manner of styles at the wall, but finding few that ...

Amy Mason recalls the time she got hacked – with the crooks bizarrely using her details to order a consignment of sex toys to her Bristol house. And that left her with the dilemma of what to do with ...

Gearóid is back at the Fringe for a two-week work in progress of his new show. He's spent four months learning to dance and now needs to earn proper money to support his cat's lavish medical needs. As ...

Innumerable thirtysomething comedians have lamented their lost youth – but Marise Gaughan is one of the few to embrace the cosy mundanity of more settled times. And that’s because she’s already lived ...

Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker. Good luck!

Jimmy Carr’s wealth grew by more than £3million last year, Companies House accounts reveal. His firm R&I Futures Limited, saw its balance sheet jump from £5.2million to £8.3million in the 12 months to ...

It takes a lot of money and work to put on an Edinburgh show, but strangely Michael Welch’s heart doesn’t seem to be in it. He grumbles at the start that ‘you can’t just do jokes in the Fringe’ in ...

The top line of Pedro Leandro’s blurb is that he’s ‘a comedian who has famously been described as "magnetic" by the Guardian’.

Here’s the video for Adam Buxton’s new song Doing It Wrong, about fears that any attempts to be good, get healthy or bring up children are inadequate. The track comes from the comedian’s new album ...