Andrew Hunter Murray

18 reasons why you can't miss the Edinburgh Fringe

Think it's just about the jokes? From weight loss to mind expansion, our panel of comedians reveal the hidden perks of a trip to the festival.

Andrew Hunter Murray on his comedy favourites

'I felt like someone had slammed my head in a fridge'

Comedians recall their first gigs

Shappi Khorsandi felt as if she'd walked on the moon. Isy Suttie watched a man change a dressing on a wound as she spoke. Omid Djalili fell off the stage. So how did the first gigs of Paul Merton, Susan Calman and other top comics go?

Comedy connections

With a plethora of offerings at every Fringe, it's inevitable that some performing paths start to cross. Here's a closer look at who's teaming up with whom.

20 stand-up comedy recommendations for Fringe 2016

Once again Laugh Out London has delved into its collective comedy brain to bring you 20 stand-up comedy recommendations for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016.

No Such Thing As A Fish, review

This intelligent quartet serve as a welcome reminder that comedy does not have to be dumb.

The self-proclaimed elves from QI and its rather popular spinoff podcast No Such Thing As A Fish continue their new enterprise. James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski and Dan Schreiber - whose tireless research has ensured the comedy panel quiz show a place in telly history - unearth the most fascinating topical facts from the week's news stories. Its tone is best described as impish rather than bitingly satirical.

Week two of the news digest that aims to do for current affairs what the popular QI podcast No Such Thing As A Fish does for facts: find interesting stuff, kick it about, explain it and then bask in the glow of human knowledge gently expanded. Hosting in front of a live audience, which must be a daunting step up from sitting in an office with some microphones, are the "QI Elves": James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski and Dan Schreiber.

No Such Thing as The News - review

Opinions are divided on this no-frills style. Complaints via Twitter that "It's basically a film of a podcast" are countered by others who maintain that this is all part of its charm. In common with Channel 4's The Last Leg, NSTATN uses Twitter as a resource, asking followers to tweet in titbits of news, and acknowledging the contributors of the most entertaining facts by their Twitter handle. The absence of political satire is another aspect which could work in its favour.

No Such Thing as the News review

There's no such thing as a dull moment in BBC Two's new topical comedy No Such Thing As The News - a look behind the headlines presented by the 'elves' who research QI.