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…
Tue 25 August 2015
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.
James Acaster: Represent
24/08/2015 … He’s a serial award nominee for the Edinburgh Comedy Award, but never yet the winner, so no wonder James Acaster’s mind has been drawn to the world of jury deliberations……
Hal Cruttenden: Straight Outta Cruttenden
24/08/2015 … Hal Cruttenden is on a mission to prove that he’s an angry, politicised comedian, even if you would never think it from his camp, smiley demeanour.