Steve Coogan

Three former winners of the Edinburgh Comedy Award returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2026.

Edinburgh Fringe 2026 Hot Tickets: 18 Edinburgh Comedy Award winners

Amy Gledhill won last year's Edinburgh Comedy Award.

Edinburgh Comedy Award 2025: Eligibility, prize money, timetable

Tim Key appeared on Series 1 of Taskmaster, finishing in fourth place with 88 points. He remains a 'task consultant' on the show. Fresh from co-writing and starring in this year's critically-acclaimed comedy 'The Ballad of Wallis Island', he's at the Pleasance Courtyard this year with his latest show 'Loganberry' from 30 July to 17 August

Tim Key returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with Loganberry

Steve Coogan as Tom Michell in The Penguin Lessons. Picture: Andrea Resmini/Lionsgate

The Penguin Lessons is a whimsical misfire but Warfare is one of Alex Garland's ...

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Escapes announces a free special screening of The Penguin Lessons, starring Stev...

Harriet Walter in Brian and Maggie

How to watch the real Brian and Maggie interview

Still from Brain and Maggie on Channel 4

Who is in the cast for Brian and Maggie on Channel 4

Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga star in Joker 2 trailer.

Explainer Everything you need to know about Joker: Folie à Deux

Sarah Keyworth is one of the seven contenders for the main Edinburgh Comedy Award.

Fringe's longest-running comedy prize shortlist revealed

19 pictures of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the 1950s and 1960s

Israel's critics appear to want them to do nothing in response to mass murder Euan McColm

The Reckoning reviewed: This is Coogan's Hannibal Lecter

Steve Coogan as Jimmy Savile. Photo: PA Wire

Steve Coogan on playing Jimmy Savile in harrowing drama The Reckoning

BBC Comedy The Witchfinder reportedly axed after one season

Phoebe Waller Bridge won a Scotsman Fringe First Award for the stage version of Fleabag in 2013. Picture: Esme Allen

New Fringe showcase aims to emulate success of Fleabag and Still Game

Coogan with a staff member in Jeremiah’s Taproom Pub In Edinburgh

TV and movie star Steve Coogan enjoys a swift pint in Edinburgh

Michael Sheen and David Tennant have been making a new series of Good Omens in Scotland.

New studios help Edinburgh generate nearly £14m from film and TV productions

Coogan said the decision to play the role was not one he took lightly (Photo: Getty Images)

Steve Coogan to play Jimmy Savile in new BBC drama The Reckoning

Steve Coogan as DCI Clive Driscoll attempting to right the wrongs in the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation

TV review: No comic relief as Steve Coogan shines in crime drama

I saw this man (Liam Henderson) deliver the ball onto the baldy heid of the other man (David Gray). I don't need any more excitement. Picture: Mark Runnacles/Getty Images

If there are any cup final tickets going give them to the Proclaimers

Knowing him as we do, the chat from Alan Partridge will be cringe-inducing

Aidan Smith's TV week: This Time with Alan Partridge, Starstruck

The new movie, starring Alan Partridge actor Steve Coogan, tells the story of how the skeleton of the last of the Plantagenet rulers, who died in battle in 1485, was found under a council car park in Leicester nine years ago

Richard III film plan for Newtongrange mining museum given green light

A statue of Alan Partridge has appeared in Norwich - here’s why (Photo: Shutterstock)

A statue of Alan Partridge has appeared in Norwich - here’s why

The new podcast is 18 episodes long (Photo: Audible)

Everything you need to know about the new Alan Partridge podcast

Billie Piper stars in a bold, bracing, Sky original drama about the moment in life when the mask slips

Billie Piper delivers a hypnotic performance in I Hate Suzie - Aidan Smith

Steve Coogan hopes to stage Fringe comeback

Steve Coogan in Greed

Film reviews: Greed | Like a Boss

Piers Morgan accused Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan of "helping" Boris Johnson achieve a "landslide" after their calls for tactical voting appeared to have backfired.

Piers Morgan: Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan helped Boris Johnson's landslide victo...

Catherine Cohen (left) and Jordan Brookes with their awards. Picture: Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Awards

Edinburgh Comedy Awards: Jordan Brookes scoops top prize

Hugh Jackman as Gary Hart in The Front Runner

Film reviews: The Front Runner | Colette | Stan & Ollie | The Upside

Scots director Jon S Baird on bringing Stan & Ollie back to life

Demonstrators at the Peoples March in central London in June. Picture: Niklas Hallen/AFP/Getty

People's Vote march: full list of celebrities funding coaches for people attendi...

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QUIZ: who said it - Richard Madeley or Alan Partridge?

Mark Adams, artistic director of the festival, is at the helm of the event for the fourth time. Picture: Contributed

Edinburgh Film Festival announces star-studded line-up for 2018

The STV headquarters in Glasgow. Picture: Leslie Barrie/Geograph

Aidan Smith: Why STV's super-local TV was doomed to failure

Alan Partridge is returning with a new TV talk show

Jake Gyllenhaal and Tatiana Maslany in Stronger

Film reviews: Stronger | Brigsby Bear | Better Watch Out | The Dinner | Blade of...

Richard Gere with The Dinners director Oren Moverman, far left, and co-stars Laura Linney and Steve Coogan. Picture: AFP/Getty

Interview: Richard Gere on his new film The Dinner

Grant Stott and Andy Gray built a strong reputation in panto, then took the plunge with their own show at the Fringe. They are back this year with 'Double Feature'.

Grant Stott: Let down by Steve Coogan and Jack Dee, but I love this crazy festiv...

Alan Rickman and Anna Calder-Marshall in a Birmingham Repertory Company production of The Devil is an Ass at the Assembly Halls during the 1976 Edinburgh Festival. Picture: Denis Straughan/TSPL

The stars who made it big at the Edinburgh Fringe

Sullivan's Winter film poster

The ten best films on TV this Christmas

Steve Coogan. Picture: PA

Steve Coogan to star in Scot Jon S Baird's new Laurel and Hardy film
SCOTTISH film-maker Jon S Baird is to team up with comedy favourite Steve Coogan and Hollywood star John C Reilly to make a biopic of the legendary double act L...

Alan Partridge: TFI job. Picture: Brian Ritchie/BBC

Alan Partridge to co-host TFI Friday

Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman are bringing the trivia this Christmas, you bring the turkey. Picture: BBC

10 books set to be popular gifts this Christmas

Nica Burns said demise of BBC3 limited opportunities for growth. Picture: Ian Rutherford

Nica Burns: BBC cutbacks will hinder Fringe talent

A Comic Relief statue of Billy Connolly in front of the famous Titan Crane at the site of the former John Browns Shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland. Picture: Young Media

Billy Connolly fund statue built for Comic Relief

Alan Partridge star Steve Coogan doesn't want Scotland to become independent. Picture: PA

Scottish independence: Steve Coogan backs No

Fathers' desire to trace children given for adoption must be remembered, writes Gary Clapton. Picture: Getty

Fathers figure too in adoption tracing talk

Judi Dench as Philomena Lee and Steve Coogan as Martin Sixsmith. Picture: PA

Film review: Philomena

Judi Dench and Steve Coogan star in Philomena. Picture: Contributed

Film reviews: Philomena | Thor: The Dark World

Steve Coogan says he likes coming back to the Fringe. Picture: Phil Wilkinson

Steve Coogan bemoans commercialisation of Fringe

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Leaders: Super Puma | Free Fringe

Bridget Christie. Picture: PA

Bridget Christie wins top Edinburgh comedy award

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Film reviews: What Maisie Knew | Kick-Ass 2

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. Picture: Contributed

Film review: Alan Partridge - Alpha Papa (15)

Sean Harris as Stephen in Southcliffe

TV preview: Southcliffe | Steve Coogan

The Scotsman Top Stories

Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

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