Mon 08 August 2011
BBC apologises for mentioning comic's YouTube clip
Richard Bacon contrite over Stanhope interview
08/08/2011 … The BBC and Richard Bacon have both apologised for mentioning the fact that clips of offensive material by American comedian Doug Stanhope were available online.
Comics back Amnesty campaign
08/08/2011 … Comedians have backed Amnesty International’s Edinburgh Festival campaign to help free five men held in the United Arab Emirates for ‘insulting officials’Ed…
Neil Delamere: Divilment
08/08/2011 … Divilment, as the internet told me, is an Irish term for general mischievousness or shenanigans, and Neil Delamere sets his show loosely around this arguing that…
Paul Foot: Still Life
08/08/2011 … ‘That was a lot of effort for three laughs,’ says a punter leaving Paul Foot's latest Fringe show.
Steve Pretty's Perfect Mixtape
08/08/2011 … Like anyone with any sense of retro style, Pretty is nostalgically fond of the audio tape and more specifically the mixtape.
Funt
08/08/2011 … A three-man stand-up show, Funt is a fairly standard compilation show of new acts stretching themselves – and occasionally the audience’s patience – into performing…
Katherine Ryan: Little Miss Conception
08/08/2011 … One strand of Katherine Ryan’s debut concerns the awful childhood beauty pageants she competed in back in her native Canadian town of Sarnia – a real place,…