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The 2023 best newcomer winner rebuts her ‘mild’ reputation with choice quips and boyband erotica

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

Mumbai-based stand-up comedian Urooj Ashfaq recently won the Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for her show 'Oh No!'. She is the first India-based comedian and South Asian origin heritage to win the award in 40 years. Urooj's jokes draw on her personal stories and experiences, which she…

For the first time ever, both the ‘Oscars of comedy’ have gone to standups with South Asian heritage. So what do the two performers who set the fringe alight have planned? Lots of boasting, finds our writer

Material about Hindu-Muslim relations aside, this award-winning performer’s gags covers familiar confessional ground, delivered with engaging skill and grace

The Edinburgh comedy award-winning show Ends is a superb set about Shah’s grandfather, the standup’s imminent wedding and multicultural Britain

32-year-old comedian whose set explores race, class and migration becomes first British-Asian to take prize

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

The theatre is championing south Asian comedians at the Fringe - if they’re all as good as this smart stand-up the festival will be a hoot