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The best of the week's live comedy
04/08/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
2024 Archives
Sun 04 August 2024
Jaz Mattu at Chortle's Fast Fringe
Performing an extract from his new Edinburgh show
04/08/2024 … Jaz Mattu performs at Chortle’s Fast Fringe, promoting his second solo show, Jaz Mattu Returns, which ison at Just The Tonic At The Caves at 6.
Joe Rogan: I'd hate to be surrounded by gay men
No shock about shock comic's targets in new special
04/08/2024 … Joe Rogan has taken aim at gay people and transgender rights in his latest Netflix special.
Sat 03 August 2024
Hannah Platt: Defence Mechanism
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
03/08/2024 … For her Fringe debut, as is the expectation, Hannah Platt lays out her vulnerabilities: her body dysmorphia, her suicidal thoughts, her long-term denial of her sexuality… Yet…
Alex Kealy: The Fear
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
03/08/2024 … In The Fear, Alex Kealy addresses the huge issues that scare him, like death, the collapse of social fabric or the really big one – a random stranger…
I had a job to do while the sex happened...
Stuart Laws' Edinburgh binge, cringe and whinge...
03/08/2024 … Stuart Laws is at the Edinburgh Fringe performing his show Stuart Laws Has to Be Joking? at Monkey Barrel at The Hive at 4.
Elvis McGonagall: Gin & Catatonic?
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
03/08/2024 … Like many a political performer this Fringe, Radio 4 regular Elvis McGonagall has had some of the wind taken out of his sails by Labour’s ascent to power.
The comedy industry's at a crossroads between tone-deaf corporate greed and artistic freedom
03/08/2024 … There is much to say about the relationship between the artist and the industry.