A huge amount of food for thought then, which you’ll have plenty of time to chew over while watching Caulfield’s 2025 show Bad Mood Rising, owing to the fact that this one isn’t actually very good.

It’s always nice when a comic gets a few miles on them before turning to stand-up, and with three decades as an accountant and a single mum, Samantha Day had certainly built up the relevant life ...

8 OUT OF 10 CATS DOES COUNTDOWN: Roisin Conaty and Phil Wang play against Joe Wilkinson and Lou Sanders, with David O'Doherty joining Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner. Channel 4, 9pm ...

Susan Harrison plays a Sindy doll – more than slightly insecure about comparisons with Barbie – in this sketch from Chortle’s Fast Fringe. The sketch comes from her 2025 Edinburgh Fringe show Should I ...

With a decade’s worth of circuit experience, Thanyia Moore thought she was going to storm the Edinburgh Fringe with her 2022 debut like Usain Bolt stormed the 2012 Olympics. But her best-laid plans ...

Yep, Eric Rushton has incorporated a new lothario swagger into his comic persona. All of which works comedically because, I’m sorry to report, it’s coming from someone with an otherwise pretty dweeby ...

At a fresh-faced and motor-mouthed 46, Desiree Burch leverages both the fire of youth and the wisdom of age in her new show The Golden Wrath, looking at the physiological and psychological processes ...

The profundity of anything more than silliness itself is left to more cerebral or earthy modern clowns like Dr. Brown or Trygve Wakenshaw; Tape Face is committed to pointless playfulness for better or ...

Mark Steel is fronting a new BBC Sounds podcast about the ‘McLibel’ trial, the longest-running case in English legal history. It came about when McDonald’s sued members of environmental group London ...

James Bond is to be played by a woman for the first time – and here’s the theme tune. At least, this is what musical comedian Katie Pritchard thinks the Girl Bond titles might sound like, if an ...

Hardeep Singh Kohli has appeared in court charged with sex-related offences. The 56-year-old comedian denied six charges relating to three women, said to have occurred between 2007 and 2016. Glasgow ...

Ed Night is back to a decent work rate again, having taken a five-year gap before his 2024 Fringe show, The Plunge. Having amassed a following of 58k on Instagram – largely for his sketches with Paddy ...