2012 Archives
Wed 09 May 2012
Brighton Fringe: Ria Lina: It's Not Easy Being Yellow
09/05/2012 … Ria Lina’s debut hour is a loose mixture of passable stand-up and jaunty ukulele songs, but without a strong raison d’etre beyond apparently the need to fill…
Tue 08 May 2012
© Ed Moore Return of the Mach
Marissa Burgess visits the Welsh festival
08/05/2012 … Machynlleth is a sleepy, albeit somewhat hippyish Welsh market town nestling between hills, right next to the Centre for Alternative Technology.
Mulaney for nothing...
08/05/2012 … American comic John Mulaney – a writer on Saturday Night Live - has recently released his second stand-up CD, and Chortle has ten copies to give away.
cardinal08
08/05/2012 … EVEN before the first episode has aired, E4's sketch show Cardinal Burns has already received four complaints to watchdogs Ofcom – for its trailers alone.
Why can't I be a prick?
Fringe accused of heavy-handed censorship
08/05/2012 … The Edinburgh Fringe has been accused of censorship, double-standards and ‘snottiness’, after refusing to allow stand-up Stuart Goldsmith to call himself a…