Why I hate the phrase 'northern club comic'
Freddy Quinne on a lazy journalistic shorthand
04/05/2014 … Perhaps my least favourite phrase in the whole of comedy is 'smashed it'.
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Sun 04 May 2014
Mon 28 April 2014
How comedy prepared me for motherhood
Now nothing fazes American comic Susie Felber
28/04/2014 … I have performed comedy - sketch, improv and stand-up - since about 1996.
Wed 16 April 2014
I've made it! I'm playing a venue with a door...
Richard Gadd on going from the Free Fringe to the West End
16/04/2014 … Is the football shown in here?Does it look like the football is shown in here? There's a TV at the back of the room.
Sat 12 April 2014
The Posthumous Playlist
Died on stage? Evelyn Mok has some songs for you...
12/04/2014 … It happens to all of us, the best of us, the mediocre of us and especially to the worst of us.
Mon 07 April 2014
Comedy is art.. let's act like it
07/04/2014 … I have recently been scouring funding applications so that I can do a rural tour taking a couple of Edinburgh Fringe shows to small venues that would ordinarily…
Fri 04 April 2014
Kickstarter has its place in funding projects
The Infidel's producer Arvind David answers critics
04/04/2014 … There's been debate about whether Kickstarter crowdfunding campaigns offer backers a raw deal.
Thu 03 April 2014
Comedy and wrestling make great tag-team partners
Lorcan Mullan on his twin obsessions
03/04/2014 … When I was six years old two different stories greatly affected the rest of my life.
Wed 02 April 2014
24 things Denmark taught me about being a comedian
Copenhagen-born Sofie Hagen shares her tips
02/04/2014 … Denmark is paradise, if you want to start doing comedy.