© Steve Ullathorne Sophie Willan wins an Edinburgh award
Herald Angel for her stand-up show
12/08/2017 … Sophie Willan has won a Herald Angel award for her Edinburgh stand-up show Branded.
2017 Archives
Sat 12 August 2017
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Sandra Hale - Self Helpless!
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Julia Chamberlain
12/08/2017 … Sandra Hale has created a monster: a twee grotesque that has elements of Birds Of A Feather’s Dorien, Baby Jane and Pollyanna all rolled into one MILFy persona.
Richard Herring blew my mind
Annie McGrath picks her Perfect Playlist
12/08/2017 … Annie McGrath chooses her favourite comedy moments:Mean GirlsI saw Mean Girls when it came out in 2004 in a cinema in my dad’s hometown, Redruth, in deepest,…
Patrick Monahan: Rewind Selector 90s
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
12/08/2017 … Patrick Monahan does a lot of remembering in his Nineties nostalgia-fest: Do you remember dial-up? Do you remember alcopops? Do your remember mad cow disease? But…
The Alasdair Beckett-King Mysteries
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Paul Fleckney
12/08/2017 … If Alasdair Beckett-King is destined to for ever be ‘the weird one’ on comedy bills, then he is at least embracing this role.
© Huw jennings Fringe Clinic #3: Sleep
Kwame Asante on getting some shut-eye
12/08/2017 … In the third of our series on surviving the Edinburgh Fringe, doctor and comedian Kwame Asante offers his tongue-in-cheek six-point guide to sleep at the festival:1.
Brendon Burns and Craig Quartermaine in Race Off
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
12/08/2017 … If there are two things Brendon Burns likes, it’s talking about race and messing with his audience’s heads.
The Elvis Dead with Rob Kemp
Clip recorded at Chortle's Fast Fringe
12/08/2017 … In his Edinburgh show, Rob Kemp re-enacts The Evil Dead 2 – as if Elvis Presley was in the lead role.