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...

If you've yet to experience the delights of Frisky And Mannish, you're in for a treat. If you have experienced them, well, congratulations on your fin...

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.

Viv Groskop: Offensive jokes? Don't get mad, get silly Comedy should be able to talk about whatever it wants to talk about, however inappropriate ...

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

The Foster's So You Think You're Funny? Award is the UK's most coveted award for new stand-up comedians, with previous winners including Dylan Moran, ...

The Foster's Comedy Awards shortlists were were revealed on Wednesday, and when the nominees gathered together on Thursday, there was a lot of love - ...

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...

We're in Edinburgh for the final week of the Fringe, and we've never seen so many stars. And we don't just mean Tim Key in the Pleasance Courtyard bar...

If you're wishing you were at the Edinburgh Festival right now, you might want to watch the video above - and think again. Because as it shows, Edi...

Award-winning duo Max & Ivan are back at the Edinburgh Fringe with an epic narrative sketch comedy about a heist. Want to know more? You're in luck! T...

For comedians, this year's Edinburgh Fringe is no laughing matter. For veteran turns, the month-long event is often used as key stop-off point on ...

Congratulations - or indeed: félicitations - to stand-up comic Marcel Lucont (aka Alexis Dubus), who has won this year's Amused Moose Laughter Award....

Some of our favourite comics are up at the Edinburgh Fringe right now - and some of them have got together to make a lovely little video for us. Cl...

Former therapist (and current Huffington Post blogger) Taylor Glenn often feels like the craziest person in the room. But don't let that worry you! Se...

Richard Herring ended one of his Edinburgh Fringe performances this week with a hollow laugh. His show, Talking Cock 2: The Second Coming, had been we...

One of the most prestigious awards for new stand-ups - the Chortle Student Comedy Award - has just found its winner. Kwame Asante, a 21-year-old UC...

There are plenty of political comedians out there. And there are plenty of cabaret ones, too. But the fiendishly talented duo Bourgeois & Maurice comb...

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 ...

Geordie giant Luke Benson was named one of the 'Top 10 Comics to Look Out For' in 2011 by London Is Funny. In 2012, he's bound to be even funnier - so...

Naomi doesn’t look like a girl who should be named after an item of stationary. Were she to pass you in the street, you’d think the comedian, ...

Life almost did begin at 40 for Markus Birdman - because at precisely that age, he had a stroke. That's not very funny, admittedly - but fortunately h...

Some interesting reading this morning when it comes to dishing out the accolades with Paul Foot getting deserved and many more Paul Foot Mr Foot h...

"Being passed around – that’s what I remember from Edinburgh,” says Anna Morris, smiling. Sat in a Camden pub, five minutes after ending t...