Sam Nicoresti, a 31-year-old comic from Birmingham, is the first transgender winner in the Edinburgh Comedy Awards’ 45-year history - Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images Europe The Edinburgh Comedy Award – ...

The Edinburgh Comedy Awards have announced their 2024 winners, with three comedians set to follow in the footsteps of past victors including Steve Coogan and The League of Gentlemen. Amy Gledhill was ...

Samsung TV Plus, the FAST and on demand service owned by Samsung Electronics, has signed a deal with comedy producers Next Up Comedy to air 15 of The Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s pre-eminent standup ...

The DLT Entertainment Best Newcomer Award went to Joe Kent-Walters for Joe Kent-Walters Is Frankie Monroe: LIVE!!!!, which garnered a string of four- and five-star reviews. It's a brilliantly observed ...

The two Israeli comedians, Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon, had their shows in Edinburgh scrapped. The director of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards has called for artists and audience members not to ...

The Edinburgh Fringe box office opens today, with its first batch of shows. Although some venues put some tickets on sale earlier this week, this is the first day that the edfringe website will accept ...

A comedy fan said having the chance to be a judge in one of the world's biggest comedy festivals was a "once in a lifetime" experience. Janet Jackson is a regular face at The Stand comedy club in ...

Described as “pure rocket fuel” for an evening of laughs which will make your sides ache, Max Roddy is making his debut tour ...

Meta Comedy ‘Make That Movie’ Kicks Off Channel 4 Edinburgh Commissions Channel 4 has opened its Edinburgh TV Festival commissioning roster with a comedy about a hotshot director who scours the ...

Canadian alt-comedy/queer theatre duo Creepy Boys (Sam Kruger & S.E. Grummett) hit it big this month at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Their new show SLUGS, a comedy-music-clown-puppet nightmare, was ...