John Tothill had the most perfect comic persona right out of the traps: a companionable, camp bon vivant, gloriously combining a generous spirit with low-rent hedonism.

Watching their debut one-man shows feels like receiving reports of people who have to get airlifted off Snowdon after attempting the climb in jeans and wellies. Sometimes the shows aren’t even ...

ROOM 101: Paul Merton returns to ask celebrities to banish the things they hate the most. Maisie Adam kicks off the new series with speedy boarding on airlines, sequels and mobile phones at live ...

You can say what you want about Dylan Adler as long as you think he’s a star. As a high-octane theatre kid with an extravagantly camp queerness, he throws all the razzmatazz he can into entertaining ...

Harry Hill says he was inspired to leave medicine to become a comedian by the death of his stepfather Tony. Speaking on Desert Island Discs today, the comic said his change of career in the early ...

The show takes place in an imaginary cinema, but this is no nostalgic Cinema Paradiso. Cinemadrome is a seedy, down-at-heel national chain, where dedicated employee Cabbage is ordered from concessions ...

For his official Fringe debut, after two years of 45-minute runs, Thor Stenhaug has gone for a straight-down-the-line ‘this is me’ introductory show, addressing his name, his Norwegianness, and his ...

Alerted to his ancestral link to the 17th Century Pendle Witch Trials, the comic has embraced his magical heritage in an effort to process his late-stage ADHD diagnosis, satirising his hyperfocus as a ...

Speed Queen is set in the last launderette on the Isle of Wight – though it may as well be Royston Vasey. For the world Ozzy Algar has so completely built shares the same sense of isolation and unease ...

We are greeted by the first of a number of mob bosses – mob bosses who will prove largely interchangeable – as CrimeLandTown is a riff on Sinatra-era gangster tropes, with all the lounge singers and ...

In Watch This When You Get Home, the mild-mannered stand-up describes himself as ‘yearny’ not ‘horny’, revelling in the romanticised idea of himself as a man with an unfulfilled longing for a crush, ...

Here’s musical comedian Bennet Kavanagh talking about his day job as a composer of lift music. It comes from his Edinburgh Fringe show, Crank Up The Volume!! (To A Reasonable Volume), which is on at ...