Comedy

Onstage orgasms, live tattooing, ‘embracing our mucky parts’

The month-long festival can be an endurance test for many its performers, as they confront their emotional and physical boundaries

Divine comedy: fringe standups turn to religion for inspiration

A number of comics at the Edinburgh fringe this summer are finding the humour in their newfound faith

Sian Gibson: ‘I don’t feel famous at all’

The writer and star of The Power of Parker on her love for the 90s and the call-centre job she went back to after her comedy hit

Meet Nathan Fielder, the king of cringe comedy

The edgy comedian behind absurdist hit series The Rehearsal uses surreal role-play to take improv to elaborate, deranged extremes

The giggle map of the UK: in comedy, location matters

Ken Dodd, a Liverpudlian, famously tailored his jokes for regional audiences, but do today’s entertainers still find their acts go down differently in Bath or Leeds, or Glasgow?