Podcast pioneer, Scope patron and now lockdown sports star, Richard Herring seems to thrive when big career obstacles land in his path: he's even turned stone clearing into cult viewing. But how will the rest of comedy recover, as the dust settles?
Her great year looked to have stalled, but Jayde Adams is achieving a long-held ambition with her anything-can-happen Couch Cabaret. Here we also tackle review snobbery, that Kylie Jenner title change, and her TikTok triumph.
She worked on Jon Stewart's Daily Show and The Late Show with David Letterman, and is now a fearless political stand-up, with a run at the Soho Theatre coming up. But what will Jena Friedman do if another comedy of errors lets that orange fellah retake the White House?
We were wondering where in the West End to meet Robin Ince for a chat about his books (out and forthcoming), progress hinderers, problematic material, and this year's two-city Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People. What better setting than tea at the British Museum, right next to some totem poles?
Comedy Store Player and global comedy traveller Andy Smart is back volunteering for Crisis again this Christmas. We met the former Vicious Boy to talk hitchhiking, homelessness, and his early death.
His new show's getting good reviews, but he's got a system for the bad ones. Meanwhile he's using the kids as a device, and his Tweets are full of mountaintop scenes. Has Ed Byrne worked out the unlikely secret to long-term stand-up success?
Late in the Edinburgh Fringe we hunkered down with John-Luke Roberts to talk about his splendidly-crafted but stupidly-named new show - now on tour - plus TV writing, tricky audience sizes, Izzard, Python, his early stuff, his awkward stuff, and that surprising award snub last year.
As her UK tour rolls into Soho Theatre, Circuit Training finds Shappi Khorsandi in a high street store, actively juggling life and comedy. It's a balance that wasn't really working before her big TV break - but this show celebrates those circuit days. Although that I'm A Celebrity windfall was clearly handy too...
Back on the circuit and oozing with odd tales, Nick Revell talks us through his bearpit Comedy Store baptism, heady gag-writing days at Drop The Dead Donkey and the tricky road back to stand-up after a decade off.
The last time Circuit Training bumped into Lloyd Griffith he was embarking on a new job with Soccer AM. Now - as he limbers up for a 3pm kick-off at Richmond's Big Funny Fest - the busy Sky, Netflix and net-minding comic is going international.
