Comic awarded for ‘delightful’ Edinburgh show

David O'Doherty, a stand-up comedian from Ireland, won £8,000 and praise for 'utterly delightful' Fringe festival show

Why the if.comedy shortlist is intriguingly short

Doom, desperation and failed relationships - all grist to the if.comedy mill

Henry Rollins

The American punk-rock singer delivered one of the funniest, most inspiring stand-up comedy shows at the Edinburgh Fringe

Timeghost 4: Call Centres and the credit crunch

Zeitgeist Editor Martin Baine-Jones and his assistant Craig Children tackle the Fringe

Timeghost 4: The Credit Crunch

Martin Baine-Jones and Craig Children ponder what the credit crunch will bring culturally

Female comics take the Fringe by storm

Ignore Richard Madeley - female comics are rocking the festival, discovers Stephen Armstrong

It Moved Me: Into the woods by Malcolm Middleton

The comedian on the unexpected emotional impact of the book

The two of us: Jo Caulfield and Kevin Anderson

The stand-up comic met her Aberdonian husband when she performed at his comedy club — a venue with an alluring name

Wax drags neuroses out of the closet

With her new stage show, Ruby Wax has dropped the loud-mouthed persona to tackle the stigma attached to mental illness

New Art Club/ State Ballet of Georgia

The New Art dances were rib-tickling while Ananiashvili's State Ballet were displayed in admirably full-blooded form

Five stars for Edinburgh's Pajama Men

Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez reach new heights with their extraordinary physical skill and quirky character play

Frank Woodley: Possessed

With its stunning slapstick and self-deprecating wit, Woodley's solo show would make Buster Keaton proud

John Gordillo

Swinging in and out of his father's heavy Spanish accent, Gordillo tries to find what makes him so fractious

Ruby waxes lyrical on mental illness

From her crazy mother to depressed builders, Ruby Wax on what inspired her new Edinburgh show about mental illness

The Meeting

The audience joins the House of Windsor trio around the table for a business meeting of increasing absurdity

Timeghost 3: An Edinburgh special

Zeitgeist Editor Martin Baine-Jones and his assistant Craig Children tackle the Fringe

Rhod Gilbert

Rhod Gilbert takes all his strengths - his dark dubiousness, his frenetic flights of fancy - and lets us enjoy his rage as our own

A week of Edinburgh comedy

There's nothing quite as funny as divorce, motherhood and parental abuse

Reginald D. Hunter/ Josh Howie

Hunter bounces from joke to joke, lobbing in high-grade opinion bombs, while Howie shows he's a bright and terrific comic

Jim Jeffries

The Australian comic is an electrifying performer, but his freethinking machismo gets harder to bear as his hour goes on