Susan Harrison is the Sindy doll
10/08/2025 … Susan Harrison plays a Sindy doll – more than slightly insecure about comparisons with Barbie – in this sketch from Chortle’s Fast Fringe.
2025 Archives
Sun 10 August 2025
© Jordan Pettitt / PA Images/ Alamy Liam Gallagher blasts Edinburgh Fringe as 'thick shit'
Oasis star hits back over criticism
10/08/2025 … They have been blamed for exacerbating the Edinburgh Fringe accommodation crisis and driving punters away from festival shows.
Sat 09 August 2025
Eric Rushton: Innkeeper
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
09/08/2025 … There’s an inarguable boldness to asking a guy on the front row ‘what’s your favourite thing about sex?’ at 3.
Thanyia Moore: August
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
09/08/2025 … With a decade’s worth of circuit experience, Thanyia Moore thought she was going to storm the Edinburgh Fringe with her 2022 debut like Usain Bolt stormed…
I curse Chortle for giving me hope
Matt Winning on the best and worst of the Edinburgh Fringe
09/08/2025 … Comedian Matt Winning is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with his climate-themed Solastalgia, in the theatre section of the programme.
Desiree Burch: The Golden Wrath
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
09/08/2025 … At a fresh-faced and motor-mouthed 46, Desiree Burch leverages both the fire of youth and the wisdom of age in her new show The Golden Wrath, looking at the physiological…
How Oxbridge dominates Taskmaster
...and what that says about the state of comedy when times are tough
09/08/2025 … In times of recession, comedy becomes more conservative, argues Edinburgh Fringe comedian and Chortle Hotshot Jessie Nixon.
Ed Night: Your Old Mucker
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
09/08/2025 … Ed Night is back to a decent work rate again, having taken a five-year gap before his 2024 Fringe show, The Plunge.