Lorna Rose Treen has won Dave's Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2023 with the gag "I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah". Read the top 10 here.
Host venue Leith Arches has cancelled an entire free speech comedy show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after BCG revealed that Graham Linehan would be part of the line-up.
Gilded Balloon Teviot will be closed during the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, the venue's artistic directors have confirmed. Katy Koren and Karen Koren have also revealed that the future of their prestigious new act competition, So You Think You're Funny? is under threat and have instigated a policy of only booking female comperes for rowdy late-night gig Late'n'Live.
The Edinburgh Comedy Awards will return to the Fringe this year after securing emergency sponsorship from no fewer than three separate external partners.
With the viability of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2023 still in doubt, an alternative set of awards titled the (ISH) Edinburgh Comedy Awards are to be launched this year.
