How one comedian is trying to take the pressure off new acts
24/07/2023 … Stand-up Carl Carzana says he’s on a mission to make comedy nights ‘nice’ – by reinventing the circuit’s brutal roast battles and gong…
Extract from his forthcoming Edinburgh Fringe show Crushing
24/07/2023 … Here's comedian Ian Smith talking about his home town of Goole, of which he's both embarrassed and strangely proud.
Morwenna Banks' advice to comedy writing graduates as she gets an honorary fellowship
24/07/2023 … Comedy star and writer Morwenna Banks has been awarded an honorary fellowship by Falmouth University.
Mary O’Connell on throwing the financial and artistic dice at the festival
23/07/2023 … So, you want to do an Edinburgh Fringe show about something kinda niche.
© Stuart Hogben Review from the Suffolk festival
23/07/2023 … ‘Give me a cheer if you’re a tofu-eating, Guardian-reading member of the wokerati!’ says Bridget Christie as she takes to the stage at the end…
Finding humour from a tumour...
23/07/2023 … The time when making a comedy show about cancer might have been taboo has long passed.
Review from the Suffolk festival
23/07/2023 … Fern Brady knows she comes across as rude and cynical, which she ascribes to her autism (as discussed in her excellent and revealing memoir Strong Female…
© Stuart Hogben Review from the Suffolk festival
23/07/2023 … Michelle De Swarte has an easy confidence and an open, conversational style that charms.
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