Fri 26 August 2016
Alison Spittle Discovers Hawaii
26/08/2016 … Alison Spittle garlands every member of her audience with a lei as they arrive into a room bedecked with inflatable palm trees and flamingos, and with a temperature…
Nath Valvo: Happy Idiot
26/08/2016 … A whining brat incapable of sustaining an hour.
Rahul Kohli: Newcastle Brown Male
26/08/2016 … Rahul Kohli discusses big issues – often rather superficially, as it turns out – but with an affable, spirited delivery that would get through to the kind of…
So You Think You're Funny 2016 final
26/08/2016 … I’m reluctant to mention the fact that seven of the nine finalists in last night’s So You Think You’re Funny? new act final were women, because…
Doing mainstream character comedy at the Fringe
26/08/2016 … British comedy has produced an array of brilliant and memorable comedy characters.
Will Franken loses it with a heckler
26/08/2016 … • Comedian Will Mars wasn’t happy with his two-star Chortle review this Fringe, he decided he’d just award himself five stars, attribute them to made-up website…
'Reality TV is a Geordie f***ing an octopus'
Frankie Boyle at the Edinburgh TV Festival
26/08/2016 … TV comedy is too bland – and needs quotas to ensure more diversity, Frankie Boyle has said.