Live Comedy

21 July 2019

My favourite comedian by Jon Long

Musical comedian JON LONG’s debut comedy hour PLANET KILLING MACHINE provides a selection of brilliantly original songs, whilst also launching into a hilarious tirade on all the ways we are ...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

21 July 2019

My favourite comedian by Langston Kerman

Ahead of bringing his debut show, The Loose Cannon, to the Edinburgh Fringe, LA-based comic and star of HBO and Sky Atlantic’s ‘Insecure’, Langston Kerman, tells Female First about his favourite ...

21 July 2019

Louisa Fitzhardinge shares the inspiration for her new show Comma Sutra

Ahead of bringing her musical comedy romp, ‘Comma Sutra’, to the Edinburgh Fringe, comedian, actor and polyglottal language nerd, Louisa Fitzhardinge, tells Female First what inspired her to write her ...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

21 July 2019

OUr favourite comedian by Frisky and Mannish

Oh, don’t make us pick a favourite. It’s too hard. It’s like wine pairing - it depends on what you’re eating, the time of day, general context, feng shui etc… ...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

20 July 2019

My favourite comedian by Joe Jacobs

My favourite comedian is Norm Macdonald As a rule, Canadians are all great, but Norm raises the bar. It’s really hard to put into words what makes this man so ...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

19 July 2019

My favourite comedian by Milo McCabe

I think my favourite comedian (comedians) as it’s a duo, are Tim and Eric. They take ideas that would look incredibly unlikely in print and turn them into even more ...

18 July 2019

My favourite comedian by Kate Lucas

Picking a favourite comedian is so hard. By picking just one, you feel like you’re cheating on the rest but I’ll go with a woman as it’s Female First and ...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

17 July 2019

My favourite comedian by Esther Manito

Gina Yashere I grew up loving Victoria Wood, and always believed she was the ultimate goddess of comedy. Then I came across Gina Yashere. I was in my 20’s when ...

16 July 2019

My favourite comedian by Daliso Chaponda

I discovered Joan Rivers’ comedy because of Youtube. I knew who she was vaguely because of her red carpet roasts at the Oscars.. When a click on ‘suggested videos’ when ...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

15 July 2019

My favourite comedian by Irwin from Felix and the Scootermen

Armando Ianucci. I've never questioned why I/we love this man's work as it's been in our lives since I remember taking my first tentative laughs as a baby. Of course, ...

14 July 2019

My favourite comedian by Rhys Nicholson

I hate comedy. I hate comedy with every fibre of my being. Well, when I say that I don’t mean doing it, or even watching it. I love both those ...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

14 July 2019

My favourite comedian by Vikki Stone

I get asked a lot about who my favourite comedians are, and sure, there’s a list of influences that you might expect; Bette Midler, Monty Python and Tim Minchin, but ...

13 July 2019

William Hartley shares the inspiration for his new show Gun

Comedic actor WILLIAM HARTLEY is best known as one third of sketch comedy troupe Clever Pete. GUN is his debut solo theatre show - a pastiche-cum-homage to the spaghetti Western ...

12 July 2019

My favourite comedian by Eli Matthewson

ELI MATTHEWSON is a young and fabulous darling of the New Zealand stand up scene. He’s in the UK this August to perform AN INCONVENIENT POOF at the Edinburgh Fringe, ...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

10 July 2019

My favourite comedian by Tony Law

I ain’t been university and I sure as f**k do not know how to write. I’m a clown assed joker man. I’m a trickster and a jester a master japester. ...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

9 July 2019

My favourite comedian by Laura Daniel of Two Hearts

Rachel Bloom is a comedian I’ve followed over the last few years that has become one of my favourites. Particularly for her work creating the TV Series Crazy Ex- Girlfriend. ...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

9 July 2019

My favourite comedian by Damien Warren-Smith

DAMIEN WARREN-SMITH is an actor and comedian who returns to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with GARRY STARR CONQUERS TROY. This new show will see Garry Starr casually conquer Troy and school ...

8 July 2019

Our favourite comedians by the Struggling Artists

Tamalynne Grant: Comedy talent is really underestimated. Dramatic roles seem to always get the forefront when it comes to having “good acting skills”, however, being funny is probably the most ...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

8 July 2019

My favourite comedian by comedy magician Mandy Muden

My all time favourite comedian is the late, great Joan Rivers. I have been very fortunate to see her a handful of times and each time she got better and ...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

8 July 2019

10 Things that make us laugh by Privates

Living the clown life is tough, rough and often enough. We’d love to settle down, find ourselves nice city jobs, selling shares to people who don’t know how. But if ...

8 July 2019

My favourite comedian by Eleanor Tiernan

My Favourite Comedian is Minnesota’s Maria Bamford. She’s a stand up comic whom I love for her uniquely philosophical style of comedy which she performs using her extensive range of ...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

7 July 2019

My favourite comedian by Jamie Loftus

I did think about writing this whole essay about “my husband who is two inches taller than me who repeats every joke I made at the table slightly louder than ...

7 July 2019

My favourite comedian by Alasdair Beckett-King

Flaming redhead ALASDAIR BECKETT KING is acclaimed for his madcap, whimsical nerdery. At this year’s fringe he’ll be espousing silly yet subtle commentary on our dire times in his show ...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

6 July 2019

My favourite comedian by Tamsyn Kelly

"The first time I remember seeing Kathy Burke was in Kevin and Perry Go Large. My parents had strictly forbidden me from watching it so I wanted nothing more than ...