From bowel cancer to Parkinson’s and dementia, the Edinburgh fringe is full of jokes about serious illness. What’s in it for the comedians – and their audiences?Standup comedy must have been the furthest thing from Sarah Mills’ mind as she awaited some…
Continue ReadingGilded Balloon, EdinburghIn his debut fringe show OK Zoomer, the 22-year-old comic bounces between optimism and fatalism, delivering gags with a sly twinkleGen Z’ers have every reason to feel old before their time. But should 22-year-old Finlay Christi…
Continue ReadingGilded Balloon, EdinburghIn his debut fringe show OK Zoomer, the 22-year-old comic bounces between optimism and fatalism, delivering gags with a sly twinkleGen Z’ers have every reason to feel old before their time. But should 22-year-old Finlay Christi…
Continue ReadingGilded Balloon, EdinburghIn his debut fringe show OK Zoomer, the 22-year-old comic bounces between optimism and fatalism, delivering gags with a sly twinkleGen Z’ers have every reason to feel old before their time. But should 22-year-old Finlay Christi…
Continue ReadingThe festival is in full swing with audiences crammed into comedy clubs. But is our global pandemic the elephant in the room?Comedian Sam Nicoresti starts his show with an elaborate sanitising ritual. Alex MacKeith kicks off with a number about lockdown…
Continue ReadingWith the fabled comedy showcase running until the end of August, we whittled down gags galore from this year’s standups to pick a dozen of our favouritesMichael Spicer: Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it saw someone from work on a Saturday….
Continue ReadingThe festival stands at a crossroads, with costs for performers soaring and many younger acts staying away. But it still offers comics a boot camp like no otherAt the last Edinburgh fringe BC (before Covid), more than 3m tickets were sold for 3,841 show…
Continue ReadingOn November 7th, the annual New York Comedy Festival is coming back. The festival was first started in 2004 by… MORE
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Sex, social commentary and Ian McKellan in a dance Hamlet: where else but the first full fringe since 2019, with standouts including Sheeps, Bilal Zafar and ‘a show without actors’Day five of the festival. My friend Ani is stretched out, comatose, on a…
Continue ReadingStand-up comic Red Richardson on his pedigree comedy childhoodDriving Rik Mayall around would be entertaining work for anyone, but for the young Red Richardson, the job he had in his 20s was the continuation of a childhood bond.Mayall, who died suddenl…
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