Becky Hughes is the standout, able to summon laughs through her stage presence alone, but there’s no weak link here even though the rigours of the Fringe seem to be taking their toll: Sam Dallamore ...

The 79-year-old actor – also known for playing comedy character Bob Servant – was due to embark on the 18-date It's All About Me! tour on October 1. But he has now told BBC Newscast he was ‘tired’ ...

Daisy Doris May’s drag alter-ego has been to the Fringe before with spoof TED talks about flirting and mating, but this time around he’s joined by two other characters: self-appointed Australian guru ...

Heidi Regan has stood out ever since winning the BBC New Comedy Award in 2017, a justified victory she followed up in 2018 with a debut show which took its main inspiration from analysing shark ...

Here’s Shalaka Kurup talking about being a doctor – but not of the useful kind. The comedian, one of Chortle’s Hotshots making their Edinburgh Fringe debuts this year, also speaks about getting ...

Another rhyming couplet of well-to-do white boys in matching suits, Finlay Stroud and Joe Peden are purveying some straight-down-the-line sketch comedy in their characterless room at the top of some ...

With a fairly traditional approach to sketch, Quirks and Foibles are not reinventing the wheel. But their show – family-friendly without talking down – hits the right notes, with the trio’s jolly ...

A huge amount of food for thought then, which you’ll have plenty of time to chew over while watching Caulfield’s 2025 show Bad Mood Rising, owing to the fact that this one isn’t actually very good.

Presenting himself as a downtrodden, albeit chipper, data analyst for a supermarket chain he talks naturally about his low status and inability to get laid without ever feeling like he’s particularly ...

There are more than a few badly acted, laboriously written, achingly earnest melodramas at every Fringe. Some of them are even deliberate, like this, Andrew Doherty’s follow-up to his breakthrough Gay ...

Ria Lina, comedian tour datesRia Lina: Riabellion Date: Sun 10 Aug 2025 Venue: Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire) Price: £12.00 Show starts: 14:25 Ria Lina: Riabellion Date: Mon 11 Aug 2025 Venue ...

I think a non-verbal, universally agreed upon sign for ‘I think your work is cool but I’m not going to be weird about it’ would save us all, but especially me, a lot of embarrassment and time.