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The Audible Best Comedy Show 2026 is @chris_cantrill for Rewilding! 🎉 Congratulations from all of us at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards! #EdinburghComedyAwards #BestComedyShow #Audible by @edcomedyawards
The winner of the Audible Panel Prize is One Joke! An entirely unique experience where 60 comedians tells just one single perfect joke before leaving the stage. Produced by Benjamin Alborough and Ellie BW of Liebenspiel, compered by Jonathan Oldfield, headlined by Lorna Rose Treen and featuring 60 comedians - all in the name of charity.  Congratulations to them! #EdinburghComedyAwards #PanelPrize #Audible by @edcomedyawards
The Taffner Family Best Newcomer 2026 is @martygleeson_ for Dog Ear! 🎉 Congratulations from all of us at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards! #EdinburghComedyAwards #BestNewcomer #DLT by @edcomedyawards
It’s time for a comedy round up! 🗞️ Our alumni have been everywhere this week. From hosting shows and new writing work, to exciting tours and podcasts, we’ve got you covered! #EdinburghComedyAwards #ComedyNews #Comedy by @edcomedyawards
Where can you see our nominee alumni this week? 🤔 From tours and TV appearances, to spooky challenges and Dream Restaurants, here’s what our nominees are up to this week! #EdinburghComedyAwards #News #ComedyNews by @edcomedyawards
Before they were Faithfuls and Traitors, they were Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominees... #CelebrityTraitors #EdinburghComedyAwards #Comedy by @edcomedyawards
Tours, TV shows and Christmas specials - it’s time for your weekly Nominee News Round Up! 🗞️ #EdinburghComedyAwards #ComedyNews #Comedy Catherine Bohart has begun her new UK tour. Performing a London residency at Soho Theatre until October 3, Catherine then hits the road on a UK tour until November 25. Entitled ‘Borrowing Trouble’, the show explores her Irish comic’s dad’s favourite sayings, and a reminder against worrying about things that may never happen. This year’s Best Newcomer Nominee, Dom McGovern, has launched a new podcast with fellow comedian, Dan Wye. Entitled ‘Flat Earth Nation’ the podcast will see the pair ‘pick apart whatever nonsense has caught their attention that week’. Available right now as a weekly video and audio podcast, the show will cover topics including picking apart pop culture conspiracy theories and Dan Wye’s family’s supposed magic skills. The BBC has announced that Amandaland, co-written and directed by Holly Walsh, will return for a Christmas special. The hour-long show will star the regular cast, as well as Daisy Haggard, who will play an old friend of Lucy Punch, who Lucy then tries to impress with a lavish Christmas party. The 2025 Christmas special was the most-watched comedy programme of the year, with 7.4 million people tuning in across 28 days. John Thomson has been cast as Ebenezer Scrooge in the upcoming production of ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the Salford Lowry. Running from December 11 to January 10, the production will be directed by Matthew Warchus and adapted for the stage by Jack Thorne. The production is usually performed at the Old Vic in London, but this year for the first time, audiences can see it outside the West End. Josh Pugh’s new tour, ‘Ha Ha, Yeah Sound’ kicks off next week. Following his two previous sell-out tours, Josh’s latest show begins in Glasgow before going across the UK until November 29. You can book tickets right now on his website. Lara Ricote is currently starring in the new Channel 4 comedy, ‘Break Clause’. In the show, Lara Ricote and Samuel Bottomley play a couple who have split up, but are stuck living in the same flat as they can’t break their tenancy agreement. The c by @edcomedyawards
It’s time for a nominee news round-up! 📰   This week we’re bringing you tour announcements, debut writing, BBC Radio commissions, podcast announcements and a previous winner who’s now an honorary doctorate!   Swipe to see who’s made the news this week! 👉 #EdinburghComedyAwards #ComedyNews Al Murray has written his first comic book story for the 6,000th issue of the war comic, Commando. Entitled ‘Sweet Revenge’, the D-Day adventure follows Private Regan, a veteran of the Dunkirk evacuation four years earlier, returning to France in a glider. The comic adventure has been co-written with historian James Holland, Al’s co-host on their military podcast, ‘We Have Ways Of Making You Talk’. The magazine with Al and James’s story is out now. To celebrate 40 years in comedy, Jack Dee has announced a 2027 tour called ‘Jack’s Joke Show’. Following his Edinburgh Fringe run this summer, the 2027 tour will begin in February, and comprise of 52 dates. The show will be a compilation of his favourite old jokes and stories of where they belong in his life story. John Robins has received an honorary Doctor degree from The Open University. On Instagram, John said: “It’s a huge honour to be welcomed into the #oufamily with an honorary degree! “I was blown away by the ceremony and ethos of The Open University as much a social movement as an educational institution. They pride themselves on an ethos rooted in inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity. What a day!” Josh Pugh has launched a new video podcast on YouTube with musician Pete Doherty. Entitled The Pete Doherty Show, the podcast was filmed in Margate. During the series, Josh and Pete will explore Kent, meet locals and interview guest comedians. Comics confirmed to be taking part include Ivo Graham and Jamali Maddix. Larry Dean is hosting a new podcast with his husband, Mikey Crump. Entitled The Resurrection Club, guests choose a famous dead person to resurrect, and select to sacrifice someone else to make it happen. The first episode was recorded at the Edinburgh Fringe with special guest Lindsey Santoro, and is out now. Upcoming podcast guests include Emmanuel Sonubi, Phil Ellis, Sam Lake and Olga by @edcomedyawards
SNL UK returns tonight! But before they were live from London on Saturday nights, they were Edinburgh Comedy Award nominees and winners! #EdinburghComedyAwards #EdFringe #Comedy #SNLUK by @edcomedyawards
Here’s what our alumni have been up to this week 👉 From breaking Taskmaster records to hosting hit shows, starring in sitcoms and celebrating major milestones, Edinburgh Comedy Awards alumni have been everywhere this week!   Proof, if we needed it, that Edinburgh is only the beginning! #EdinburghComedyAwards #ComedyNews #Comedy This year’s Best Newcomer Nominee, Freddie Meredith, is the latest cast addition to SNL UK. Returning to screens this weekend, Freddie will be joining an alumni of Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominees and winners on SNL UK, including Ayoade Bamgboye (Best Newcomer 2025) and Paddy Young (Best Newcomer Nominee 2023). To celebrate the 20th anniversary of his comedy documentary, It’s Nice Up North, Graham Fellows is touring the film across the UK. Creator of character John Shuttleworth, (which earned him a Best Comedy Show nomination in 1992), Graham will also take part in post-show Q&As. The tour will also honour the film’s photographer, Martin Parr, who sadly passed away in December. During the Q&As, Graham will talk about working with Martin Parr and how he cleverly captured the film on a remote Scottish island. Heading to 25 venues, the tour begins on September 17 at @homemcr in Manchester. Jack Dee is to host new comedy quiz show, ‘Help Me Tiny Big Brain’ Airing on U&Dave, the game show pairs three children (known as ‘Tiny Big Brains) with stand-up comedians. Comics set to appear include Fatiha El-Ghorri (Best Newcomer Nominee 2026), Ivo Graham (Best Comedy Show Nominee 2019), Johnny Vegas (Best Comedy Show Nominee 1997), Lucy Beaumont (Best Newcomer Nominee 2014), Maisie Adam (Best Newcomer Nominee 2018), Tim Vine (Best Newcomer Winner 1995), and Sophie Willan (Best Comedy Show Nominee 2017). Previous nominee Liz Kingsman will star in upcoming Australian comedy, Tough Love. The series follows the story of a mother and her three grown-up children in Sydney as they come to terms with their mum’s cancer diagnosis. Liz will play the daughter, Steph. Rose Matafeo is taking part in her second Taskmaster! Having appeared in the UK version in 2019, and co-hosting Junior Taskmaster, she’s now competing in Taskmaster by @edcomedyawards
🏆 EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD WINNER CHRIS CANTRILL HITS THE ROAD! Fresh from winning the 2026 Edinburgh Comedy Award, Chris Cantrill is taking his acclaimed show Rewilding to London and across the UK. First up, Chris heads to Soho Theatre for an 11-date residency from 23 November–5 December, before taking Rewilding on a UK tour in spring 2027. The show follows a rural borderlands community, a felled local tree and an outsider determined to make the whole thing about him — with community, justice, rural life and masculinity all thrown into the mix. After three previous Edinburgh Comedy Award nominations, Chris finally took home the prize in 2026 — and now Rewilding is heading beyond the Fringe. 🎭 Full story + announced tour dates at TheFanCarpet.com #ChrisCantrill #Rewilding #EdinburghComedyAwards #EdinburghFringe #SohoTheatre #Comedy #UKComedy #TheFanCarpet @chris_cantrill @edcomedyawards by @edcomedyawards
‘We're celebrating our comedy community” The Audible Panel Prize Winners 2026 explain how One Joke started and what the future holds. #EdinburghComedyAwards #EdFringe #PanelPrize #Audible by @edcomedyawards

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