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Latest · 6 Sep 2026 · 20:47
Thirty acts, six shows, and doors at six on a Tuesday Thirty comics will play six shows across three nights this month, in a shed…
River Leanox · 7 min read
Susie McCabe had read the same press release as everyone else. “However, I would counter that with yes the front end of the Fringe was…
Jeff Arcuri’s crowd work started because he ran out of jokes at sea. “It really started when I started doing cruise ships,” he told A…
“Not sure why we didn’t have a compere,” Dave Vickers told Chortle in January. He was describing a booking habit that survived four decades in…
The Keep it Fringe fund paid 180 Edinburgh artists £2,500 each in 2025, a total of £450,000. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport put…
The firm putting money behind this year’s poster prize explained itself in a single sentence. It’s a sentence with a fight in it. “In a…
Sixteen MPs wanted to put their names on the Live Comedy Association’s letter to the Culture Secretary and weren’t allowed to. Parliamentary protocol, apparently, which…
Jim Gaffigan once explained his whole approach using a box of doughnuts. “It’s not really necessary to curse when you’re discussing doughnuts,” he told the…
“It’s the last Friday of the Fringe and people are sitting with half-full rooms,” Susie McCabe posted in the closing days of August. By the…
Five nominees, one £5,000 pot, and a creditor owed £103 Big Difference Company was the collapsed charity that ran Leicester Comedy Festival. Buried in its…
