Jenny Eclair, Peter Egan, Josie Long, Kate Smurthwaite and James Mullinger are among celebrities supporting the #RapeIsNotFunny campaign, set up by Stand Up For Women, Object, Zero Tolerance and Rape Crisis Scotland.

The initiative is asking all comedians to reconsider using jokes that trivialise rape or are made at the expense of rape survivors during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (August 1-25). Sasha Rakoff, Director of Stand Up For Women, said 'how about laughing at rapists not victims? How about laughing at "rape culture" - an entire culture that has trivialised rape so much that it has become little more than a strapline on a t-shirt?'.