David Hoare at Chortle's Fast Fringe
15/08/2026 … Comedian David Hoare jokes about his surname before launching into a volley of musical based puns.
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Mike Wozniak: The Bench
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
14/08/2026 … Mike Wozniak proves himself a poet of the parochial in this charming story of the goings-on in his particular corner of South-East Essex.
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?…
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…