Fringe sales up five per cent
26/08/2013 … Ticket sales for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe are up five per cent on 2012.
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Mon 26 August 2013
Sun 25 August 2013
Remembering Richard Pryor
25/08/2013 … The comedy week ahead:Sunday August 25TV: It’s the second installment of A Touch of Cloth, Charlie Brooker’s silly cop procedural spoof starring John Hannah.
Sat 24 August 2013
Bridget Christie wins Edinburgh award
24/08/2013 … Bridget Christie has won the award for the best comedy show on the Edinburgh Fringe.
Award-winning pussy
Adrienne Truscott takes Malcolm Hardee title
24/08/2013 … Adult cabaret act turned outrageous stand-up Adrienne Truscott has won this year’s Malcolm Hardee award for comic originality.
Martin Freeman to pull a Little Cracker
24/08/2013 … MARTIN FREEMAN is to make a Little Crackers film for Sky.
Fri 23 August 2013
It's the Wed-inburgh Fringe
23/08/2013 … WTF: Weekly Trivia File • ‘Comedy isn't tragedy plus time, it's rage plus structure,’ Josh Whedon.
© BBC Badults gets a second series
23/08/2013 … Badults – the BBC Three sitcom created by sketch trio Pappy’s – has been recommissioned for a second series, before the first has ended.
Vicious will return
...as will The Job Lot, says ITV boss
23/08/2013 … ITV sitcoms Vicious and The Job Lot will both return for second series.