The best things in life are free
Dan Willis on the benefits of free Fringe shows
02/09/2008 … Dust finally settling on another Edinburgh Fringe and it’s time to do something I’ve been meaning to for a while – pen an answer to the earlier Should It…
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Tue 02 September 2008
Wed 27 August 2008
Everyone's a winner
Chortle editor Steve Bennett on the 'patronising' if.comedy award
27/08/2008 … Everyone’s a winner – at least according to the if.
Tue 26 August 2008
Mon 25 August 2008
Postcards from a busman's holiday
What Geoff Norcott learned about Edinburgh...
25/08/2008 … I just had my best Edinburgh yet and I wasn’t even doing a show.
Thu 21 August 2008
Edinburgh: The talent-spotters' view
by Shane Murphy, FremantleMedia Enterprises
21/08/2008 … It’s the perennial problem of the Fringe talent spotter: You're sitting in the front row of a tiny Fringe venue, at six or seven in the evening, it’s baking…
Mon 18 August 2008
Take comedy seriously
Michael Monkhouse says the art is underappreciated
18/08/2008 … Carla Lane once said: ‘I tell people I write comedy and they're disappointed… Last year I wrote two plays and everyone seemed impressed, like I was suddenly…
Thu 14 August 2008
Should it be a free-for-all?
Corry Shaw on the pros and cons of free Fringe comedy
14/08/2008 … It is always tricky to schedule a timetable of shows that you want - or have - to see during the Fringe.
Tue 12 August 2008
Adapt or die
Steve Day on how the credit crunch could hit comedy
12/08/2008 … I'm in the Assembly Rooms cafe, waiting to meet Kate, wife of fellow comic Bill Bruce, to give back the keys to their lovely Glasgow flat that they so kindly let…