Foo's our student comedy award winner
13/08/2024 … South African-born comic Foo has become the 20th winner of the Chortle Student Comedy Award.
2024 Archives
Tue 13 August 2024
Mon 12 August 2024
John Tothill undergoes urgent surgery
Comic cancels Edinburgh Fringe shows after his appendix burst
12/08/2024 … Comedian John Tothill has gone to hospital for an urgent appendix operation, cancelling some of his Edinburgh Fringe run.
© Esme Buxton Chelsea Birkby: This Is Life, Cheeky Cheeky
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
12/08/2024 … Chelsea Birkby’s sophomore show is a very charming hour that consciously approaches autobiographical topics with a simultaneous high and low approach, equally…
Carousel, by Ivo Graham
Edinburgh Fringe theatre review
12/08/2024 … ‘Talking doesn’t become theatre just because you put music underneath it,’ says Ivo Graham near the top of this piece, aware of the pitfalls and…
Pie Maker has 28 options - so you can have a varied diet
Louise Atkinson on the best and worst of the Edinburgh Fringe
12/08/2024 … Louise Atkinson is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing her show She’s Got The Look at Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose at 12.
Runi Talwar as 'Runi Talwar' in Runi Talwar: The Runi Talwar Story
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
12/08/2024 … It’s hard to believe this accomplished hour is Runi Talwar’s Fringe debut.
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.
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…