Radio 4 to launch new stand-up strand
Comedians' shows adapted for Sunday slot
17/08/2017 … Radio 4 has announced a new weekly stand-up strand.
Thu 17 August 2017
Ari Eldjárn: Pardon My Icelandic
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
17/08/2017 … As a wide-eyed, sweet-natured idiot savant making dopey comments from a remote island in the windswept North Atlantic, there’s something of the Father Dougal…
Charlotte Gittins: Mirror Image
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Jay Richardson
17/08/2017 … Legend has it that come Armageddon, nuclear submarine commanders will try to tune to Radio 4 before assuming that London has been destroyed.
Lucy Pearman: Maid of Cabbage
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
17/08/2017 … Full marks for commitment to the idea, however loopy.
What's the worst room to perform in at the Fringe and why?
Edinburgh's biggest dives, by the comedinans who play them
17/08/2017 … Anything that has a ‘yurt’ in the title.
© Steve Ullathorne Darren Harriott: Defiant
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Paul Fleckney
17/08/2017 … It’s not often you get a debutant comedian who’s as ready for TV as Darren Harriott is.
Smart arses
Buttock-baring, critic-baiting comedy up for theatre award
17/08/2017 … A show in which three international female comedy performers respond to their reviews has been nominated for a Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Iain Stirling: U OK Hun? X
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
17/08/2017 … As the voice of Love Island, Iain Stirling has become a David Attenborough for fuckwits, observing their strange mating habits and reporting back to the rest of…