Ahir Shah: Ends coming to Netflix
Extract from his stand-up special
12/08/2024 … Here’s a clip from Ahir Shah’s Edinburgh Comedy Award winning stand-up show Ends.
2024 Archives
Mon 12 August 2024
Edward Aczel: Running on Empty
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
12/08/2024 … In perhaps the quintessential Ed Aczel performance, the master anti-comedian spent 99 per cent of this performance so fiercely backlit by halogens that he was barely…
Steve Bugeja: Shiny
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
12/08/2024 … If there’s a solid measure of stand-up’s secure place in mainstream culture, it’s the apparent increase in comedians getting invited back to their…
© Rebecca Need-Menear Is the internet making comedy more cultish?
Finlay Christie on the unusual relationship between comics and their online fans
12/08/2024 … Another article about the future of digital comedy?! How many times do comedians need to boast that they can ‘bypass industry gatekeepers’? Relax.
Rosco McClelland: Sudden Death
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
12/08/2024 … Rosco McClelland describes himself as a relatively calm and collected person – although you wouldn’t know it from his whirlwind delivery.
© BBC New book from Gone Fishing's dog, Ted
Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse’s canine companion 'writes his ‘pawtobiography'
12/08/2024 … Ted, the dog from Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse’s Gone Fishing, has 'written' his first book.
Alexander Bennett: Emotional Daredevil
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
12/08/2024 … Fringe veteran Alexander Bennett returns with a deeply introspective hour, boldly experimental and willing to probe into uncomfortable areas without the guaranteed…
'I had never seen a performer be so captivating'
Katie Green picks her comedy favourites
12/08/2024 … Edinburgh Fringe comedian Katie Green picks her Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites.