Gyles Brandreth: Word Power!
25/08/2015 … Gyles Brandreth has been researching this beautifully enunciated love letter to the English language for nigh-on half a century.
Tue 25 August 2015
Bridget Christie: A Book For Her
25/08/2015 … Two years on from winning the Foster’s Best Comedy award, Bridget Christie is keeping her foot on the gas, and on the throat of her political enemies.
Nathan Cassidy: Back To The Future II
25/08/2015 … Nathan Cassidy has a difficult gig tonight.
Andy Field scoops Chortle Student title
25/08/2015 … ANDY FIELD, a 23-year-old creative writing masters student at Brunel University in West London, won the final of the Chortle Student Comedy Award at the Edinburgh…
Free Fringe comic thrown out of his venue
Stephen Carlin falls victim to rivalry
25/08/2015 … Stand-up Stephen Carlin has been thrown out of his Free Fringe slot for appearing in a show at a rival venue.
10 ways to start a Fringe conversation that isn’t: 'How’s the show?'
Running out or things to say in the final week? Let Jack Bernhardt be your social lubricant...
25/08/2015 … This weather is crazy! If the weather is not crazy enough for this, hire a wind machine and several people to throw hail stones at you mid-conversation.
'I didn't realise stand-up could be so emotional'
Tom Toal chooses his Perfect Playlist
25/08/2015 … Russ Abbott My mum went back to work once me and my brothers were in school we used to go round my Grandad’s a couple of times a week, he had two VHSes which…
Mon 24 August 2015
And the joke of the Fringe is...
Darren Walsh's pun scoops the title
24/08/2015 … Darren Walsh has claimed the funniest joke of the Fringe with his line: 'I just deleted all the German names off my phone.