Rather than being an out-and-out comedy show, Tall Child is more of a rounded piece of politically charged art, created to make an impression rather than laughs end-to-end. But a tart, vinegary humour ...

Yes, in its early moments the wittily-titled Let Me Get This Off My Chest can sometimes feel like a TED Talk, but a very good, very funny one, artfully structured with the empowering message of ...

Theo Mason Wood calls his show ‘genre-defying’. A less generous observer – OK, me – would call it a mess, with the Berlin-based comedian throwing all manner of styles at the wall, but finding few that ...

To demonstrate a comedy-writer’s job is safe from AI, Keen gets ChatGPT to write a routine on the spot and in the style of John Bishop. Of course, it’s not great – though I’ve seen human open spots ...

‘And it really pisses me off really, to be honest.’ • Sir Tony’s episode of How to Fail with Elizabeth Day is out today. While Sir Tony will be touring An Evening with Sir Tony Robinson – From ...

Amy Mason recalls the time she got hacked – with the crooks bizarrely using her details to order a consignment of sex toys to her Bristol house. And that left her with the dilemma of what to do with ...

Gearóid is back at the Fringe for a two-week work in progress of his new show. He's spent four months learning to dance and now needs to earn proper money to support his cat's lavish medical needs. As ...

Innumerable thirtysomething comedians have lamented their lost youth – but Marise Gaughan is one of the few to embrace the cosy mundanity of more settled times. And that’s because she’s already lived ...

It takes a lot of money and work to put on an Edinburgh show, but strangely Michael Welch’s heart doesn’t seem to be in it. He grumbles at the start that ‘you can’t just do jokes in the Fringe’ in ...

Jimmy Carr’s wealth grew by more than £3million last year, Companies House accounts reveal. His firm R&I Futures Limited, saw its balance sheet jump from £5.2million to £8.3million in the 12 months to ...

The top line of Pedro Leandro’s blurb is that he’s ‘a comedian who has famously been described as "magnetic" by the Guardian’.

MPs are officially calling on the government to recognise live comedy as an art form in its own right. The chair of the cross-party culture committee in the Commons has written to Arts Minister Chris ...