It's ironic that in the year that the Edinburgh Festival Fringe introduced a Spoken Word category for the first time, its biggest comedy awards recogn...

Last night saw the madcap Malcolm Hardee Awards Show give out its gongs for 2012, the awards which aim to "represent the true anarchic spirit of the E...

Dear Edinburgh Fringe, Look, you know I love you. We've been together for 15 years now (remember?! I was handing out flyers on the Royal Mile. You were the Royal Mile). I adore you.

The annual Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards rewarded physical comedy this year, with clown Doctor Brown winning the big prize - Best Comedy Show - and...

Being encouraged to climb a fibre-glass cow at quarter to four in the morning with two girls from Lancaster and an accountant named Henry is exactly the sort of thing I promised myself to avoid during the Edinburgh Festival this year.

She's won the Best Newcomer award, and been nominated for the Best Comedy Show award for the past two years running. So could this be the year that Jo...

By the time it ends its 24-day run on 27 August, the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival will have showcased nearly 3,000 events - an average of more than ...

Daniel Kitson doesn't do tours, interviews, TV or DVDs. So how did a reclusive enigma become the most sought after standup of his generation? As the c...

Edinburgh. Auld Reekie. Athens of the North. And home of the world's greatest arts festival. Where better for a hungry young stand-up, with a few gigs...

There are so many Fringe shows on in August every year it is impossible to see them all. It's a little known fact that if you were able to see every s...