The piñatas' progress
Comic takes 27 toy donkeys to Edinburgh... by train
01/08/2017 … The road to Fringe can be long and difficult… especially if you try to do it with 27 donkey piñatas in tow.
Tue 01 August 2017
Following in the footsteps of history (and Arthur Smith)
Tony Law offers an alternative walking tour of Edinburgh
01/08/2017 … Arthur Smith’s midnight tours of the Royal Mile are the stuff of Edinburgh legend… including the arrest of Simon Munnery in 2000.
What word did the Edinburgh Fringe censor?
Try a special festival-based Tuesday Trivia Quiz
01/08/2017 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly trivia quiz - compiled, as always, by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
I went to school dressed as Groucho...
Andy Field picks his Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites
01/08/2017 … Peep Show Nothing hits me where it hurts like Peep Show.
Be more Monkhouse
Markus Birdman urges comedians of any age to learn from each other
01/08/2017 … I feel there is a sea change in stand-up at the moment.
BBC One orders pop-up quiz show
Comedy entertainment format for Saturday night
01/08/2017 … BBC One is to launch a new comedy quiz show for Saturday night TV.
Pierre Novellie at Chortle's Fast Fringe
On learning a useless amount of French
01/08/2017 … Pierre Novellie speaks about how children are forced to learn a useless amount of French language in this new clip from Chortle's Fast Fringe.
Crowdfund a comic
Leicester fest seeks backers for development scheme
01/08/2017 … The Leicester Comedy Festival is calling on its supporters to help bring more new comedians to the event.