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The best joke award has gone. Is the Edinburgh fringe taking all the pun out of comedy?

I will miss the lighthearted award, but often it overlooked the art of standup in favour of celebrating groan-inducing one-liners, says journalist Anya Ryan

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh Fringe’s funniest joke award scrapped for 2025

TV channel U&Dave said its annual competition was being put on hold

The Independent UK

Edinburgh funniest fringe joke award scrapped for 2025

TV channel U&Dave has announced its award for best joke at the fringe, launched in 2008, won’t be given this year

The Guardian - UK

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Edinburgh festival 2025: 20 golden comedy shows to see this summer

Desiree Burch returns, Bridget Christie drops in and Toussaint Douglass flies while Joe Kent-Walters goes beyond the grave and Jazz Emu has a midlife crisis

The Guardian - UK

‘It allowed me to be more myself’: how becoming a clown can be therapeutic

Clowns are associated with laughter and entertainment, but increasing numbers of people are using the medium as a form of personal development and self-discovery

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Behind the Crime: Liam; The Skies Are Watching; Time of the Week – review

On Radio 4, the moving story behind one teenager’s prison sentence; a satisfying mystery show; and a pitch-perfect satire inspired by Woman’s Hour

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh festival 2024: the best comedy, theatre and dance already reviewed

Five-star standup, late-night debauchery, staggering circus tricks … as the arts spectacular approaches, here are some of the shows rated by our writers

The Guardian - UK

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Lorna Rose Treen: ‘Someone shouted along to one of my jokes, like I was a band’

The character comic on gigging with chickens, harnessing the power of embarrassment and her spoof Radio 4 current affairs show

The Guardian - UK

Afternoon Update: experts warn of bushfire risk; Woodside activists restrained; and a Fyre festival reboot

Australians are being urged to prepare for the most significant fire season since the black summer bushfires

The Guardian - AU

Pulling a fast pun: Cheetah gag wins ‘funniest joke’ at Edinburgh Fringe

Lorna Rose Treen is the second woman to win the award since its inception in 2008

The Independent UK

Lorna Rose Treen’s ‘stupid joke’ named funniest of the fringe

Comedian ‘blooming chuffed’ as she becomes the second woman to win the award in its 14 years

The Guardian - UK

This is the funniest joke of this year's Fringe, according to experts

The winner of the coveted funniest joke of the fringe award has said she could not wait to tell her mother after her quip about dating a zookeeper…

The National (Scotland)

Revealed: 10 funniest jokes of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023

London-based comedian Lorna Rose Treen has scooped first place

Evening Standard

Our round-up of Edinburgh Fringe comedy, from Lorna Rose Treen to Paddy Young

As the festival enters its third week, Isobel Lewis gives her verdict on some of the biggest stand-up shows so far

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh fringe 2023 week two roundup: to the stars – via Essex

A dazzling drama about women slipping the surly bonds of male-dominated Nasa joins Essex poetry, New York silliness and Lorna Rose Treen’s laugh-fest as second-week treats

The Guardian - UK

Lorna Rose Treen: Skin Pigeon review – dolphins, vamps and Brownies join dotty parade

From a nine-year-old misfit to Sally Rooney writing a children’s book, Skin Pigeon’s characters are pitched at a sharp angle to the real world

Evening Standard

Lorna Rose Treen at Edinburgh review: oddball comedy show is deservedly the biggest buzz of the Fringe

Treen’s show, Skin Pigeon, will be a frontrunner for the festival’s big comedy awards later this month

The Independent UK

‘You absolutely can’t make money’: can the Edinburgh Fringe survive?

The world’s biggest arts festival is back this month, at a time when discussions about the cost of taking a show to the Fringe have never been louder. Isobel Lewis speaks to performers, producers, food stall owners and community organisers about the problems facing the festival and whether it can…

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Evening Standard

Edinburgh Fringe 2023: the 12 rising star comedians set to break out this year

The best comics you’ve never heard of at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe - our tips for the stars of the future…

The Independent UK

Vault Festival 2023: What to see this year, from theatre to comedy

London’s answer to Edinburgh Fringe is back with a bang after a two-year hiatus. Isobel Lewis rounds up the unmissable highlights

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