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EDINBURGH FRINGE 2025: Big celebrity names and familiar premises are simply not the point of Edinburgh Fringe. Isobel Lewis collates some of the best shows at this year’s festival worth taking a chance on

INTERVIEW: The writer, actor, and musician has, over the years, quietly become a staple of British comedy. He tells Ellie Harrison about mining absurdity for laughs and his golden partnership with Tim Key

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is coming very soon indeed, and here are the unmissable shows

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

With The Ballad of Wallis Island, Tom Basden and Tim Key have written a poignant and comical exploration of music, loss, nostalgia and hope.

Steve Carell stars in Succession creator Jesse Armstrong’s new satire targeting tech billionaires, while the long-awaited games console is finally here

INTERVIEW: The actor and comic poet speaks to Louis Chilton about his new theatrically released film ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’, the pressures of acting in ‘Peep Show’ and Alan Partridge’s ‘Mid Morning Matters’, and the realisation that made him stop supporting Liverpool FC

4/5 A folk-rock hero (Tom Basden) is tricked into a reunion with his ex-bandmate (Carey Mulligan) in this gentle musical comedy about fame and fandom, that blessedly steers clear of mawkishness at every turn

She plays a folk singer who reunites to perform a gig off the coast of Wales.

The idiosyncratic comic’s sprawling CV includes poetry, Alan Partridge and a spell in a pigeon costume but his latest career destination might be his most unlikely yet – Hollywood

Curtis has hailed the comedy as ‘one of the greatest British films of all time’