Indeed, title Soppy Stern comes from Philip Larkin’s best-known poem, This Be The Verse, to describe a parenting style that’s half sentimental, half strict. And over the course of the hour, the comic ...

There are three spectres haunting Liz Guterbock's show. As someone who makes a substantial part of her income from voiceover work, the first and most insidious of these is AI. The stand-up was ...

Australian cabaret star Thomas Currie becomes a human vessel for ChatGPT in this song, which he performed at Chortle’s Fast​ Fringe last month. It comes from his show Basically Nocturnal, which is on ...

It’s been almost ten years since Michelle Wolf was last at the Fringe, where she was nominated for best newcomer, and her stature has only continued to grow in the meantime, partly due to the infamous ...

It seems like a one-sided fight, but Noel Gallagher has slammed Free Fringe comedian Kate Smurthwaite while on stage at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium. The musician mocked the comedian as a ...

Tributes have been paid to Scottish comedian Gary Little after his death was reported on social media. The comic was about 61 and his cause of death is not yet known, but one friend said he died while ...

Reuben Solo’s venue, Just The Tonic, believe it’s OK to sell seats where this is the view of the stage: So I’m afraid after spending ten minutes trying to get a glancing view of the comic’s face as he ...

Nominally, Miss World is about building community, partly in response to Sutherland’s fear that he’s getting older and losing the value he once held as a twink, when he was prized among gay men for ...

Nate Kitch’s debut last year was a show about nothing, ditching conventional notions of structure and routines for something more freewheeling and responsive to whatever was happening in the room. I ...

The Comedy Store is to release a new podcast featuring stand-up performances. Episode 1 will be released on September 22 and feature Jo Caulfield (pictured), Dinesh Nathan, and Scott Bennett. The ...

Abbas is a warm and charming presence who makes an easy connection with the audience, indulging in just enough crowd work to give the hour a bit of spontaneity and fluidity, without distracting from ...

Having scored an artistic success with his last outing Chronic Boom, a story about his battles with chronic illness, the soulful Liam Withnail further develops the emotionality of his storytelling ...