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Get ready for Edinburgh Fringe 2026!🥳🎉If you're new here, Fringe, the biggest arts festival in the world, is legendary for launching comedy stars…but it’s also legendary for completely draining your bank account. But the good news is we're doing the heavy lifting (and the walking) for you. 🤫 We’ve scouted the absolute best rising comics and we're streaming the festival's hottest shows straight to your screen. This August, get ready for pure, unfiltered, front-row Fringe brilliance from the comfort of your couch. Oh, and obviously you guys will be the first to know about the lineup...coming soon! Any predictions/wishes/desires/dreams? 🤗 Welcome to Ask a Comedian - our little corner of the NextUp community for getting closer to the people who do the mindblowing, and surprisingly full-on job of making people laugh. 🎭This channel is a place to drop questions for comedians about anything comedy. From writing and finding ideas, prep and pre-show routines, nerves and confidence, gigs that went great (and gigs that didn’t) to touring, crowd work, heckles, bombing, you name it! Ask what you’re curious about, whether you’re a comedy nerd, a casual watcher, or someone who performs. Keep it respectful (obvs!)How it works: We’ll post when we're meeting up with a comedian to film their special or chatting with them, you leave your questions in the comments and we’ll pick 3–5 to put to them, and share the answers back here. 🎤

Kai A.

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October 17

Ask a Comedian: Cally Beaton 🤩

Hello wonderful NextUppers! Next week we're filming a special for Cally Beaton - so if you have any questions you've always wanted to ask her, or a comedian in general, now's your chance.

You can either leave your question in the comments here, or if you would prefer to remain anonymous, you can fill in this Google Form:

https://forms.gle/CKYhFymKjSrcXLkM8

You have until the end of Monday to submit your questions. 😍

Kai A.

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October 16

01:59:28

Leicester Square Theatre: SKETCH OFF FINAL 2026

Leicester Square Theatre's showcase for the UK's best up and coming sketch artists! Now in its 10th year, Sketch Off! is open to any sketch, character and alternative acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's most exciting writers and performers. The top qualifiers from heats at the Museum of Comedy in Bloomsbury will compete in the grand final in Leicester Square Theatre's Main House for the cash prize & their own comedy showcase. Previous Finalists include: The Delightful Sausage, Joe Kent-Walters, Lorna Rose Treen, Janine Harouni, Christian Brighty and many more…

What I’m watching (or should I say re-watching) this weekend! What about you guys?! Is anyone going out to see some in-person comedy as well? 😎😁

Kai A.

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October 14

Hey guys! We're busy planning next week's social media posts and thought it'd be more fun to let you choose what goes out first. We've narrowed it down to two great comedians with shows on NextUp, and now it's over to you. Vote in the poll below for who gets the first reel of the week!

Rosco McClelland (How Could Hell Be Any Worse?)

58 %

Dominic Holland (Alive In Tring)

42 %

12 votes

Kai A.

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October 13

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NextUp is Turning 10! 🎂

Hey NextUppers! Next month is an exciting one for us, because we're turning 10 YEARS OLD! 🥳

To celebrate a decade of streaming comedy, we want to drop a limited-edition 10th Anniversary T-Shirt - and we want YOU to help us design it!

Before we head to the drawing board, please tell us if this is something you'd like and of course, drop your design ideas in the comments!

Once we have a few options, I’ll make a poll so you can vote on your favourite design. 😍

Kai A.

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October 12

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Bill Murray Catch-Up!

If you missed the Bill Murray livestream last week, you've still got until October 16th to watch it on catch-up. Enjoooy! 😍

Kai A.

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October 09

Anyone else watching Traitors UK Season 2?! And if yes, are you enjoying it as much as me 🤣

Yes!

71 %

29 %

14 votes

Karen D.

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October 08

I caught the Bill Murray 24th and it’s catchup but still not seen Glee 25th or it’s catchup am I missing something?

Kai A.

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October 08

01:04:51

Basic Bloke 2

★★★★ ‘He has become one of our most refreshingly funny comedians of any stripe.’ – Dominic Maxwell, The Times Basic Bloke 2 – There’s No Bloke Without Fire is the latest tour from comedian, author, podcaster and radio host Geoff Norcott and Geoff’s first under a Labour government, so he’s got plenty to get off his chest! Not least because there’s nothing quite so British as being promised a brave new dawn then realising it’s as crap as the last one. Geoff will savour getting his teeth into the new ‘big beasts’ of British politics, with scathing words for Starmer and Rachel Reeves (while surprisingly positive about the idea of Angela Rayner as PM). Culturally, Geoff is conscious that – as the global headwinds shift right – he might end up at odds with people who used to be on ‘his side’. He’s dismayed to find that some of the cultural right weren’t really against censorship and cancellation, they just wanted to be the ones doing it. What’s more, Geoff can’t get his head around people who shared his suspicion of the EU’s power openly salivating over the idea of Britain becoming Trump’s 51st State. ★★★★ ‘The Laughs roll in like waves.’ – Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard

NEW SHOW ALERT! 🚨

Here it is NextUppers, Geoff Norcott's, Basic Bloke 2. Hope you enjoy having a watch today, or this weekend. 🤩

Kai A.

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October 08

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Lineup for Bill Murray Livestream Tonight! 😍

- Jake Patrick
- Alexandra Haddow
- Maple Zuo
- Eloise Eftos
- John Meagher

Stream starts at 20:30 BST now, not 20:00.

Kai A.

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October 07

Sneak Peek of Tomorrow's New Show! 👀

Tomorrow Geoff Norcott's Basic Bloke 2 hits NextUp! And because you're our members, you're the first people to see this sneak peek! Enjoy watching Geoff as he warms up the crowd with a playful roast of their city. 😂

Click here to watch now.