'You will cry... lean in to it'
The Big Ask: What's the one thing you know now that you wish you'd known at your first Fringe?
31/07/2018 … That everyone finds it tough.
2018 Features
Interviews with comedians, comedy reviews, Perfect Playlists and other comedy features, all collected in one place.
Tue 31 July 2018
Which Edinburgh venue was Russell Brand once thrown out of?
Try our Fringe-themed Tuesday Trivia Quiz
31/07/2018 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly trivia quiz - compiled, as always by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
I was wearing an egg costume, carrying a trumpet and bleeding out of my face
Natalie Palamides recalls her most memorable gigs
31/07/2018 … Gig that taught me the biggest lessonI used to do a bit where I would play a mother who had just had her baby kidnapped.
© C4 'Comedy can tackle the most difficult issues in a really profound way'
Stephen Mangan on his new Channel 4 show, Hang Ups
31/07/2018 … Explain a bit about the show – what’s Hang Ups all about? It’s the story of a therapist, Richard Pitt, whose group therapy practice has disastrously…
I applied to study medicine because of Scrubs...
Harry and Chris pick their Perfect Playlst
31/07/2018 … Flight of the Conchords Chris: For sure one of the biggest influences on us.
Mon 30 July 2018
The Big Ask 2018: What is you abiding memory of your first Fringe?
'Seeing Simon Munnery with a glove made of dildos'
30/07/2018 … Sleeping in the bus terminal, and not knowing whether I could get home (I was 16).
'Some people in this business are liars who will drop you in the shit'
Miles Jupp's Unfogettable Five gigs
30/07/2018 … First gigThis was at The Stand in Edinburgh in March 2000 in my first year at university.
Why John Cleese is Britain's greatest ever comedian
Dominic Frisby picks his Perfect Playlist
30/07/2018 … I've always loved farce.