In losing 12st 3lbs since joining the group in January 2023, his waist has shrunk from 52 inches to 32. An in recognition of his transformation, James has been named Slimming World’s Man of the Year ...

Glenn Moore opens the spigot on his latest harried torrent of jokes before he’s even arrived on stage, relaying a well-known story about Emma Thompson losing her script for Sense & Sensibility in a ...

Artwork for Alison Spittle and Jessica Aszkenasy’s shows have won the Comedy Poster Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe. The audience award went to the poster for Spittle’s show Big designed by Oliver ...

Ricky Gervais once submitted a sketch for Smack The Pony – but it was rejected for being too sexist. Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips made the revelation at a reunion show at the ...

To me, the title Sam Michael: The World’s Oldest Man suggests something a little high concept, perhaps that the comic is aiming to take that record, or performing in character as the longevity champ.

Tim Reeves’s shtick is that he doesn’t want to be at the Fringe at all. He’s a reluctant nepo baby given his slot as his uncle runs the gaff. It’s easy to believe him, as he presents himself as a ...

It’s always nice to see Simple Town in the UK. The NYC-based sketch quartet made their name with videos that felt like nothing else on the market with handmade production and strange, deadpan ...

A Night of Drama is a late-night improv show corralled by American comedian Jack Grossman, who presides over the evening as director while dressed as Thomas Cromwell.

Sir Billy Connolly has warned fans not to be taken in by scammers using artificial intelligence to impersonate him. The Scottish comedian also said crooks had tried to pass themselves off as his wife, ...

The OBs are the OGs. Mark Arden and Stephen Frost first met more than five decades ago, and played the opening night of a new Edinburgh Fringe venue called the Gilded Balloon exactly 40 years ago.

Matthewson is no right-winger in waiting. As a gay man who can see the superiority of the female anatomy for entertaining the human penis, he's progressive about the shape of modern relationships and ...

Scottish comedian Gary Little died while hiking in the Highlands, it has been confirmed. Tributes flooded in to the 61-year-old after his death was announced on social media on Friday.