One of the biggest Edinburgh Fringe venues has called for next year’s festival to be brought forward by a week after the final few days of this year’s event were widely perceived to be a damp squib.

Multi-hyphenate comedy genius Zachary Ruane (Aunty Donna, Mish and Zach, Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves*) is finally gifting the world with his debut solo show. Comedy promises to be the ...

Among them, Cordelia Graham’s dad, Martin, whose life seems so incredible as to almost be a fairytale, going from literal chimney sweep to lord of a Cotswolds manor, where he built a 500-seat opera ...

Isy Suttie takes Alex Horne on a tour of the London Museum of Water and Steam to introducer herself to Taskmaster viewers. Contestants in the 22nd series of the show are taking part in the interview ...

Irish comedian Roger O’Sullivan talks of having a peasant mindset: the feeling that nothing good will ever happen to him, and if it does, it will eventually turn sour. Is this born of Catholic guilt ...

Chloe Petts takes Alex Horne on a tour of the London Museum Of Water and Steam to introduce herself to Taskmaster viewers. She is one of the contestants in the 22nd series of the show, which starts on ...

Full marks for ambition for Kate Smurthwaite, whose verbose title explains exactly what stupidly demanding challenge she set herself this festival. It is that she ‘writes and performs a brand-new full ...

It's the Fringe, so of course, Caitriona Dowden isn't the only person in Edinburgh with a harp – but she surely IS the only person presenting a low-key history of the folk music of the British Isles ...

As a comic who thrives on being on the back foot, however, Brown clearly wonders if his brand of intelligent discourse can ever compete with moronic entertainment – as embodied by the dead-eyed chants ...

You can see why Derek Demko chose to do a show about American summer camps, given he has all the upbeat, peppy enthusiasm of the best camp counsellors – even if he is a little too old for the job.

American comic Jamie Wolf has won the £1,500 Edinburgh Fringe Comedian of the Year Competition. Rather than being based on comics’ shows, this is a knockout competition with acts doing sets at heats ...

Zucker, as his sweatily desperate alter-ego Jack Tucker, is always master of ceremonies and controlled misrule – yet Stamptown's strength remains in the collective.