Tiernan Douieb: Miserably Happy
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Paul Fleckney
22/08/2017 … Tiernan Douieb is as game as any comic, and he makes a decent fist of getting a mid-afternoon audience in the difficult Waverley Ba going against the odds.
Tue 22 August 2017
© BBC How comedians come up with their Fringe shows
22/08/2017 … The Edinburgh Fringe is a vibrant melting pot of talent, a festival of comedy, theatre and art, and the root cause of many a comedian’s filing for bankruptcy…
Tom Stade: I Swear
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
22/08/2017 … Well into middle age, Tom Stade retains a rock-and-roll swagger in his feisty stand-up, even able to flick devil-horn fingers to the crowd and it not feel ironic.
Heckled by a rubber chicken
Mark Forward recalls his Unforgettable Five gigs
22/08/2017 … First gigMe and a friend had written an absolutely terrible sketch about a man trying to rent a truck, but the rental place would only rent him seven.
Never heard of it...
Paul Danan says he's making a BBC sitcom. BBC says no, he isn't
22/08/2017 … The BBC has denied that it working on a new sitcom with Celebrity Big Brother contestant Paul Danan.
Viggo Venn - The Life of Pepito
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Jay Richardson
22/08/2017 … Slight but consistently amusing, the solo debut of the Norwegian half of Zach & Viggo rests securely on Viggo Venn's playful, goofy charm.
That gag's been coined before!
Dave's joke of the Fringe has previously been broadcast... on Dave
22/08/2017 … The joke that TV channel Dave today named as the best on the Fringe has already been told on one of the broadcaster's most popular shows.
Who have the Edinburgh comedy award judges most heinously overlooked over the years?
...as we await this year's nominees....
22/08/2017 … With the lastminute.