Despite government advice to curb non-essential travel
01/04/2020 … Comedian Ashley Blaker is to stage a theatre show with no audience this weekend – despite government instructions that non-essential workers should not travel.
Success for the Awkward Silence
01/04/2020 … Comedy duo The Awkward Silence have won a national comedy competition, bagging a £1,000 prize for their video sketch.
01/04/2020 … Markus Birdman has become Markus Boredman during the lockdown.
'We will return with a renewed purpose. We will persevere.'
01/04/2020 … The 'big 4' Edinburgh venues have all issued their own statements in the wake of its afternoon's news that the Edinburgh Fringe is not going ahead as…
As issued by the Festival Fringe Society
01/04/2020 … Following today's announcement that the 2020 Edinburgh Fringe would not be going ahead in anything like its normal form, the Festival Fringe Society, which puts…
But a slimmed-down Fringe MAY be possible
01/04/2020 … Edinburgh’s Free Fringe and Free Festival says they too will be cancelling all their shows for this year’s Fringe.
Most the judging to take place online
01/04/2020 … Entries have opened for this year’s Funny Women Award.
Earl Okin defiant amid Facebook storm
01/04/2020 … Veteran comedian Earl Okin has sparked a racism storm after posting a photograph likening Chancellor Rishi Sunak to Buster Keaton dressed as a monkey.
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