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The Big Ask: Can you come up with a slogan for the Fringe?
16/08/2018 … Come up with a slogan? I'm not doing that again.
2018 Archives
Thu 16 August 2018
Benny
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
16/08/2018 … Benny Hill would not like Liam Tobin’s portrayal of him in the latest addition to the ever-expanding canon of ‘dead comedian' plays.
'Cattle market by day, gig venue by night'
John Shuttleworth creator Graham Fellows recalls his most memorable gigs
16/08/2018 … Best gigBizarrely, it was not as John Shuttleworth but as Brian Appleton (the failed Brummie rocker) at the Bloomsbury Theatre in 2000 I think.
Lola and Jo: Focus Groupies
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
16/08/2018 … This is definitely a proper focus group, conducting vital research into whether the comedy product being planned by a certain anonymous female double act will be…
Jen Brister: Meaningless
Edinburgh Fringe review by Jay Richardson
16/08/2018 … Scorching in the white heat of its fury, Jen Brister's Fringe return is a striking example of how to channel frustration and raw emotion into hard-hitting stand-up.
Oleg Denisov: Doublethink
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
16/08/2018 … Any comedian would have his work cut out entertaining eight people in the Tron’s basement at midnight, and Oleg Denisov’s well-informed, highbrow stand-up…
NextUp films Fringe shows
Edinburgh comics come to on-demand service
16/08/2018 … Stand-up video-on-demand service NextUp are filming some Edinburgh Fringe shows at the Edinburg Fringe.
Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Victim, Complex
Edinburgh Fringe review by Paul Fleckney
16/08/2018 … For the second year in a row the Edinburgh Fringe has a break-up diptych to behold.