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Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
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2024 Archives
Wed 21 August 2024
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Laughs lost in translation
Vlad Ilich on how to relate to British audiences when they can’t even remember your country’s name
21/08/2024 … Living in the UK is hard enough.
Harriet Dyer: Skin
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
21/08/2024 … Harriet Dyer’s new show skates breezily over some pretty serious stuff, much of which was covered in previous shows, particularly 2022’s Trigger Warning.
Nate Kitch: Tomorrow Might Not Happen; Now
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
21/08/2024 … With this slippery hour of anti-comedy, almost designed to fail, Nate Kitch takes the guardrails off what stand-up can be.
Louise Atkinson: She's Got the Look
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
21/08/2024 … Given the immediate impression it makes upon an audience, the 'look' of a comedian, the succession of choices they've made about how they present themselves,…
Alex Horne writes a Taskmaster companion
With The Spreadsheet Gentleman Jack Bernhardt
21/08/2024 … A book celebrating a decade of Taskmaster is to be released in time for Christmas.
Sallyann Fellowes: Salien
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
21/08/2024 … Salien certainly feels like an authentic delve into Sallyann Fellowes’s neurospicy brain, as frustrating as that can sometimes feel as she pinballs around…
ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards announces 2024 shortlists
23 shows in the running for prizes
21/08/2024 … The nominees for the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards have been announced, just hours before the shortlist for the Fringe’s original comedy award.