Shane Todd: Holywood to Hollywood
12/08/2016 … Over from Northern Ireland to make his debut is Shane Todd, a fledgling comic with a nice line in self-deprecation.
2016 Archives
Fri 12 August 2016
Kieran Hodgson: Maestro
12/08/2016 … Maestro, superficially, charts the efforts to write a symphony that has taken Kieran Hodgson more than half his life.
Jamali Maddix: Chickens Come Home To Roost
12/08/2016 … It’s a failing of the comedy industry that there aren’t more voices like Jamali Maddix’s on the circuit: a young working-class man, streetwise and energetic…
Mr Swallow – Houdini
12/08/2016 … The most spectacular feat in Mr Swallow’s Houdini isn’t the water tank escape at the end, impressive as that is for a Fringe show, but the fact that Nick Mohammed…
Louis CK
12/08/2016 … It takes quite some star quality to overshadowing everything else going on in Edinburgh, but Louis CK’s hit-and-run one-off put even Bill Burr’s earlier flying…
The truth is vital in comedy... honestly
Sophie Willan wants more authentic working class voices to be heard
12/08/2016 … Let me tell you a bit about me.
© Jake Williams / Creative Commons Train staff to strike on the last day of the Fringe
Virgin East Coast seeks to reassure travellers
12/08/2016 … Thousands of Edinburgh Fringe-goers could have their journey to and from the festival disrupted after the RMT announced a series of strikes on Virgin East Coast…