John Hastings has some words for comedians heading to Edinburgh next week
25/07/2022 … It has been four years since I have ‘done’ the British comedy circuit, so everything that follows may be out of date - or only ever applied to me.
Round-up of some of the acts playing the festival, in no particular order...
25/07/2022 … Even though the comedy offering across Latitude’s smaller spaces is less than it used to be, the art of stand-up is still taken seriously here.
25/07/2022 … Winners and finalists of the Chortle Student Comedy Award so often go on to great things.
25/07/2022 … Comedian Sam Fletcher is launching a new podcast – mixing walking tours with ‘silly’ interviews.
The first of many festival preview clips...
25/07/2022 … The Edinburgh Fringe is soon upon us – and here’s the first of 30 preview clips Chortle will be running to plug festival shows.
24/07/2022 … So the 2022 Latitude comedy stage line-up ended not with a bang, but a whimper as Reginald D Hunter’s set fizzled out, leaving the American to cut his losses.
24/07/2022 … ‘Let’s blow the temporary roof off this meadow!’ David O’Doherty opens his Latitude set with a perfect expression of the contradictory brand…
© Joseph Sinclair 24/07/2022 … Aisling Bea is not the first comedian to have revealed her ADHD diagnosis.
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