COMEDY

Comedy of badgers

Fresh from a sell-out run at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe and hitting Cambridge on 19 March, 100% Badgers is a stand-up show by scientist-comedian Matt Hobs After a PhD in...

Let the comedy commence!

Bury St Edmunds’ third Comedy Festival brings two months of side-splitting stand-up and outrageous improv to venues across the town The season begins on 4 February at Theatre Royal Bury...

Big Deal Comedy will host three weekly shows at the Town & Gown on Market Passage from January Founded by siblings Leanne Clarke and Jason Stampe in 2018, it’s grown...

The Junction at 35

From club nights to Britpop bands, stand-up comedy and community theatre, Cambridge’s coolest indie venue is 35 this month. Popular culture manager Rob Tinkler reflects on the highlights Few live...

As political polemicist Nish Kumar prepares to return to the Corn Exchange this October, Miriam Balanescu gets the lowdown on his new show  I don’t care about my comedy or my...

Full of the joys From Christian cults and dark humour to escaping Midwest America; stand-up comedian Spring Day makes her Cambridge Fringe debut  An American transplant whose comedy career originally...

The best comedians fill Parker’s Place with laughter The all-new Cambridge Comedy Garden lands in Parker’s Piece this July (17th to 21st) with a Big Top bursting with the biggest names in comedy plus craft beer, street eats and...

Fun on the fringes Set to send waves of laughter across the city this May bank holiday weekend, the Cambridge Fringe Festival returns for another year of killer comedy Since...

Humourist Olga Koch brings her uproarious show Just Friends to the Junction – Miriam Balanescu speaks to her in the build up (more…)

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