Awards, with three categories including £10,000 prize for best comedy show, will be known as DavesThe television channel Dave is to follow fizzy water, finance, lager and online travel as the sponsor of the Edinburgh comedy awards.The announcement was …
Continue ReadingThe region has long been a national punchline. Funny, then, that it’s where you’ll find some of the country’s sharpest witsIf ever, on a weekend, I get the train out of London and up through the countryside, I watch the buildings turn from stained crea…
Continue ReadingShe unleashed Phoebe Waller-Bridge on the Edinburgh fringe. The former actor with the Midas touch tells us her recipe for a hit show‘We had wine. It was late.” Producer Francesca Moody shrugs as if that combination is where all genius lies. Six years a…
Continue ReadingThe standup’s dedication to the scout movement waned because computer games were cooler than camping. Now, she’s saluting her Brown Owl at the Edinburgh fringeWhy did the sand blush? Because the sea weed! That’s the joke that earned me my jester badge …
Continue ReadingAged seven, comic Steve Bugeja helped his mum find a new partner. They had to watch his magic tricks – and know how to handle a trellisWhen I told my mum that my fringe comedy show was going to be all about her being single when I was growing up, she s…
Continue ReadingJessie Cave’s intimate standup, a beatbox Frankenstein and a twist on the star-crossed lovers are among the Edinburgh shows we’ve previously reviewed. Here’s what we said …Pleasance Courtyard Continue reading…
Continue ReadingThere’s a Belle and Sebastian play, a show in a hair salon, Frances Barber performing Pet Shop Boys songs and top comics including Josie Long and Stephen Fry. Here’s our guide to the world’s biggest arts festivalCrocodile Fever Traverse Playwright Megh…
Continue ReadingLoughborough Town HallHe became ‘the most hated comedian in Britain’. Now Walsh is on tour with the most engaging show of his careerThree weeks into Strictly Come Dancing last autumn, Seann Walsh was walking on air. The public loved him; the primetime …
Continue ReadingLeicester Square theatre, LondonThe former king of lad comedy moseys through a delightfully meandering set about ageing, libido and ‘the Strictly curse’Frank Skinner is 62, and it’s remarkable he can even make it on stage, he says: “It’s like when you …
Continue ReadingIn the run-up to the Edinburgh festival we’ll be picking highlights from the programme. Here’s a dozen for starters, including Eddie Izzard and a ukulele comedyAssembly George Square StudiosEddie Izzard was born 150 years – to the day – after Charles D…
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