Amused Moose picks its new comedy champion
Babatunde Aléshé crowned at Edinburgh Fringe
20/08/2019 … Babatunde Aléshé has won this year’s Amused Moose National New Comic award.
Tue 20 August 2019
Mon 19 August 2019
Broccoli pun 'is offensive to Tourette's sufferers'
Charity demands apology from Fringe comic Olaf Falafel
19/08/2019 … It might seem like a harmless pun – but the line named ‘joke of the Fringe’ today has been slammed as offensive.
Stuart McPherson: Mr. November
Edinburgh Fringe review by Paul Fleckney
19/08/2019 … Stuart McPherson isn’t the first (male) comic I’ve seen this Fringe comparing himself to a grandparent and decide they’ve come up short.
LOLs in translation
Adapting humour for an international audience
19/08/2019 … The Edinburgh Fringe attracts an international audience and an increasing number of comedians from overseas.
Tom Parry: Parryoke!
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
19/08/2019 … If you translate Tom Parry’s name into French it comes out as Joie De Vivre.
Jimmy McGhie: BA (Hons)
Edinburgh Fringe review by Julia Chamberlain
19/08/2019 … I didn’t see last year’s show form Jimmy McGhie, but this is apparently a re-vamp.
What's the worst thing you've eaten for a bet?
Another from Richard Herring's stock of Emergency Questions
19/08/2019 … 40 chicken nuggets at once.
Matt Stellingwerf: Sisyphus
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
19/08/2019 … ‘I’m better than my reputation,’ New Zealander Matt Stellingwerf reassures his audience before the show.