Over the past decade, and particularly since the pandemic years, the stand-up comedy special has undergone a quiet but ...

Ahir Shah's stand-up show Ends is now airing on Netflix - Chris Watt There may be times while you’re watching Ahir Shah’s Ends – winner of the 2023 Best Comedy Show at the Fringe and now airing on ...

Comedian Milton Jones has cancelled some dates of his current tour after receiving a cancer diagnosis. Taking to Instagram, Jones shared he was diagnosed with "treatable prostate cancer". He explained ...

With opposition to transgender issues regularly expressed by mainstream British figures, the country’s trans comedians are often just trying to assert their humanity. By Alex Marshall LONDON — Jen ...

Stand-up comedy is enjoying a wonderful renaissance in the UK. Theatres small and large across the country are packed with fans enjoying the best of British gagsmiths, and you can't switch on the ...

If comedy was indeed the “new rock'n'roll”, then Michael McIntyre was, for a hot second, its Elvis Presley. During the Noughties British comedy boom, when stand-up suddenly became fodder for stadium ...

The Cambridge Companion To Stand-Up Comedy is a collection of essays on the history and state of the art from lecturers and professors around the world. Some of the writers hide their academic roots ...

Upward of 150 stand-up specials were released in 2023. That’s a lot — much more than a generation ago, when it was hardly guaranteed that a comedian would ever film one if they weren’t one of the top ...

Visit any body of water in Britain this summer and you will spot them, wielding their paddles like modern-day Argonauts. In the past three years stand-up paddleboarding (or SUPing) has gone from ...