Mhairi Black: Politics Isn't For Me
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
20/08/2024 … Former deputy leader of the Scottish National Party in Westminster MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South and progressive firebrand Mhairi Black stood down in the…
2024 Archives
Tue 20 August 2024
Punchlines on the railway lines
Hull Trains stages a pop-up comedy gig on the 11:48
20/08/2024 … Rail passengers on the 11:48 from to Hull have been treated to an unexpected comedy show.
Is it a faux pas to flyer a well-known comedian?
Suchandrika Chakrabarti on the best and worst of Edinburgh
20/08/2024 … Suchandrika Chakrabarti is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing her show Doomscrolling at Hoots @ Potter at 3pm.
Eleanor Morton: Haunted House
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
20/08/2024 … The medieval walls of Edinburgh conceal a host of chilling ghost stories, which Eleanor Morton evokes in her atmospheric, partially candle-lit show.
Sam Campbell to make a Channel 4 comedy
Make This Movie is a 'new-era comedy gang-show'
20/08/2024 … Sam Campbell is to make a Channel 4 comedy, playing a hotshot director scouring the country for everyday people who have an idea for a feature film – which…
Louise Leigh: Distracted
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
20/08/2024 … Anyone who’s reached early middle age and wondered what their 18-year-old self would think of them now will find much to relate to in Louise Leigh’s…
Reginald D Hunter tried to quell 'antisemitic' crowd
New footage shows comic urging calm at controversial Edinburgh Fringe gig
20/08/2024 … New footage has emerged of Reginald D Hunter telling his audience to ‘end this peacefully’ after tensions were inflamed by his anti-Israel joke at the…
King Baby
Edinburgh Film Festival review
20/08/2024 … A darkly comic satire delivered in the form of an absurdist fairytale, King Baby sets out its stall in an amusing opening voiceover which explains how two men came…