Don't get so wrapped up in your own show!
Adele Cliff on the best and and worst of the festival
01/08/2025 … Adele Cliff, former UK pun champion and regular on the Dave's Funniest Jokes list, returns to the Edinburgh Fringe this year.
2025 Archives
Fri 01 August 2025
Dusty Creases: Dance Your Life Away
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
01/08/2025 … This could be an introvert’s worst nightmare… and, personally, not my first choice for a fun time.
Can comedy reach its highest form without full freedom of speech?
Saaniya Abbas on the stand-up scene being built in Dubai
01/08/2025 … They say: ‘Build it, and they will come.
Ben Pope: The Cut
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
01/08/2025 … For reasons it’d be a spoiler to explain, Ben Pope finds himself almost ungooglable.
© Dylan Woodley 'A singular, unflinching look at a life deemed redundant by the transactional machinery of capitalism'
Toussaint Douglass picks his comedy favourites
01/08/2025 … Toussaint Douglass – who’s performing his debut show Accessible Pigeon Material at the Edinburgh Fringe – picks a wildly diverse list…
Ted Milligan: United
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
01/08/2025 … Last year’s Sketch-Off winners James Trickey and Ted Milligan, aka Burger And A Pint, have gone their separate ways for now and are both bringing solo debuts…
Amelia Hamilton: Forget Me Not
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
01/08/2025 … A rap-based show all about someone called Hamilton? That’ll never be a hit… As probably the only woman in the UK who combines comedy and rap,…
Jessie Nixon at Chortle's Fast Fringe
Extract from her Edinburgh debut
01/08/2025 … Here’s Jessie Nixon performing an extract from her debut Edinburgh Fringe show Don't Make Me Regret This.