2024 Archives

Fri 02 August 2024

I wouldn't do my old act in today's woke climate, says Frank Skinner

But comic welcomes the fact he's evolved

02/08/2024 … Frank Skinner says he wouldn’t get away with the jokes he used to crack in the 1990s today.

'Being a single mother was not a struggle'

Comedian also talks about freezing eggs, Shania Twain and podcasting

02/08/2024 … Katherine Ryan has spoken about how being a single mother was not a struggle for her, calling it a ‘wonderful decade’.

Thu 01 August 2024

Josephine Lacey: Autism Mama

Edinburgh Fringe comedy review

01/08/2024 … Is this a tender and touching account of what it’s like to be the mother of a severely autistic child at the most challenging time of their development –…

Dr Jo Prendergast: The Cool Mum

Edinburgh Fringe comedy review

01/08/2024 … Flying in the face of the trad wife movement, Dr Jo Prendergast champions herself as The Cool Mum, the latest in a long line of charlatan self-help svengalis gracing…

Audiences deserve more than a sweaty comedian forced to change in a disabled toilet

Aaron Twitchen on the best and worst of the Fringe

01/08/2024 … Aaron Twitchen is at the Edinburgh Fringe with his stand-up show Himbo, which is on at Gilded Balloon Patter House at 7pm.

John Meagher: Big Year

Edinburgh Fringe comedy review

01/08/2024 … Aspiring to be a storytelling comedian in the relaxed style of Dave Allen, Northern Irish comic John Meagher has some uniquely fascinating anecdotes to share.