Tom Towelling Teaches You To Knit
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
14/08/2026 … The route from teacher to comedian is a well-trodden one – Greg Davies, Frank Skinner, Romesh Ranganathan and Guz Khan are not doing half bad, are they?…
2026 Archives
Fri 14 August 2026
People don't hate culture, they just feel shut out... that's where comedy comes in
Max Norman – aka Coco The Time Travelling Tart – on making art come alive
14/08/2026 … A couple of years ago, I found myself in a position many comedians will recognise.
Garrett Millerick: We Tried It Your Way
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
14/08/2026 … With so much debate about the role of generative AI in the creative fields, self-confessed Luddite Garrett Millerick decided to commission a bespoke model at no…
Joseph Morpurgo: Highlander 70
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
14/08/2026 … For his first solo show in a decade, Joseph Morpurgo takes his cue from a 1970 high school yearbook from Highlander Academy in Virginia, which he found in a…
Grace Mulvey: Gigantica
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
14/08/2026 … The premise of Irish stand-up Grace Mulvey’s third highly personal hour, Gigantica, is that she has a massive head and looks exactly like her dad.
My self-esteem reached exciting new depths below sea level
Ben Pope on the best and worst of the Edinburgh Fringe
14/08/2026 … Comedian Ben Pope – who is running a ‘book club’ gig at the Edinburgh Fringe next week – talks about what he can't get enough of at the…
Hannah Byczkowski: Killer
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
14/08/2026 … She's playing the Gilded Balloon’s tiny 50-seater Turret room, but it's hard to see how Hannah Byczkowski could be giving this performance any more…
'I have to admit it, my stammer affects my comic timing'
James Beckett on trying to turn his disability into an advantage
14/08/2026 … Timing is everything in comedy, isn’t it? Laughs per minute, neatness of delivery and economic use of words are industry KPIs [key performance indicators]…