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It’s always hard for me to pick a favourite comedian, but I’ve managed to narrow it down to two for you and that’s the best I can do.  First is ...

Known for his gag a minute stand up, comedian JIM CAMPBELL’s latest show BEEF confronts his family curse. The show is a fast-paced and bold attempt to overcome overthinking, anxiety ...

“Flames, on the side of my face!” I was 10 years old watching Clue for the first time and those words hit me. How Madeline Khan could take seven little ...

Powerhouse storyteller KIRSTEN VANGSNESS is best known as the unforgettable Penelope Garcia from CBS’ Criminal Minds. She is bringing two very different yet equally barmy shows of female empowerment in rep ...

We create all of our work as an ensemble; writing, editing, rehearsing and directing together and so (for the most part) we have really similar tastes when it comes to ...

Glaswegian cussing, crowd work extraordinaire MARTHA MCBRIER is the Queen of the Free Fringe. Her show at this year’s festival launches a campaign against the perennial HAPPINESS BULLY in her hard-hitting and hilarious show ...

It’s Nice To See You To See You, words which whenever said brings the immediate response of ‘Nice!’ from our lips. A fun and silly thing that connects every single ...

Canadian Triple Broadway World award-winner REBECCA PERRY, loved for her Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl shows will be diving all-singing and all-dancing into the Golden Age of Hollywood with FROM JUDY TO BETTE: THE ...

Is there anyone in the world funnier than Julia Davies? The answer. No. I love Julia Davies in such a pure way. She never fails to make me laugh, just ...

One of Australia’s most respected and established clown tropes enter a macabre world of abattoir dwelling, grey nosed, genocidal clowns, hell-bent on purging the world of their red nosed compatriots. ...

I can remember being 10 years old, sitting in my front room, with my mixed family around me. I remember sitting in awe as they all collapsed into laughter. Richard ...

JAMES BARR is best known as the star of applauded podcast A Gay and a Non-Gay (which is also playing Edinburgh for the last week of the Fringe). Painfully relatable and delectably ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We’re close but we’re not that “My mum is my best friend, I tell her everything” kind of close. I love her and I see myself in her. And the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...