Lucinda Spragg: An Additional Evening With
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
05/08/2023 … Lucinda Spragg is one of the more recent additions to the pantheon of caricatures parodying right-wing rabble-rousers – laughable, ridiculous grotesques like…
2023 Archives
Sat 05 August 2023
Can we increase access to the Fringe without making costs rise too?
We asked Edinburgh comedians about the supply-and-demand pressures
05/08/2023 … Encouraging more people to perform at the Fringe will increase demand on accommodation, which is already at crisis point, and won't get cheaper if more performers…
Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
05/08/2023 … Chris Grace is a fat, gay, 50-year-old Chinese comedian, so the very suggestion that he could play the stunning blonde Danish-American superstar Scarlett Johannson…
© Joe Lycett/X Did Harry Styles really sit for a portrait by Joe Lycett?
05/08/2023 … Joe Lycett has unveiled a portrait of Harry Styles – after claiming the musician personally sat for him.
Stewart Lee and Bridget Christie have split
Comic confirms 'amicable' separation
05/08/2023 … Stewart Lee last night confirmed that his marriage to Bridget Christie is over.
Joe Pasquale: I was almost killed by my prop moose's head
Comedian rushed to hospital for stitches after freak accident
05/08/2023 … Joe Pasquale says he’s lucky to be alive following a freak accident with one of his props.
Bronwyn Sweeney on YouTube ads
05/08/2023 … Here is comedian Bronwyn Sweeney speaking about her previous job in advertising while appearing at Chortle's Fast Fringe.
Dark comedy
Stand-up has to perform by phone light after tech fails - watch the video
05/08/2023 … Talk about irony.