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 ...

Annette has a distinctive way of adding little comic flourishes to words and phrases which adds a waggish sing-song quality to the chat – though her exaggerated French pronunciation of Michael Bublé’s ...

Channel 4 has released the trailer has been released for Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping, making the return of David Mitchell and Robert Webb to sketch comedy. Included in the teaser is a clip that ...

Although one can attribute a certain amount of narrative framing to this, People Pleaser is otherwise straightforwardly vulnerable, with the comic making manifest the typical stand-up's aggravated ...

The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards have just announced the longlists for best show and best newcomer at this year’s Fringe - and they are VERY long. A total of 62 shows feature – 40 for best show and 22 ...

Lein is the final part in a Fringe trilogy, whose titles have spelled out the Shetland comedian’s name over the past three years. The first, Marj, dealt with the mind, the second, O, was about the ...

Mancunian comic Paul Campbell is dressed for a funeral, entering in a dishevelled black suit and tie with wild hair and appearing rattled and concussed. The image is assisted by the venue's terrible ...

Even among comedy icons, greatest hits shows are a rarity. Yet Graham Fellows ' evergreen John Shuttleworth has the musical back catalogue and doughty persistence to return to past glories and still ...

Pathetic Little Characters is an impressive calling card for Rory Marshall’s abilities to conjure up credible alter-egos, all intrinsically funny without being exaggerated. His creations tend to be ...

Miranda Hart has written a festive short story about a forgotten Christmas tree. The Christmas Tree That Loved To Dance is about a woman called Joan and a talking dog called Jessie who try to save the ...

Durham Revue are very much sticking to the tried-and-tested formula for student sketch troupes, dancing on to the stage with carefully choreographed energy, all dressed in identical monochrome.