Amy Mason on being a crime victim
Extract from her Edinburgh Fringe show
06/08/2025 … Amy Mason recalls the time she got hacked – with the crooks bizarrely using her details to order a consignment of sex toys to her Bristol house.
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Stephen Catling: Moving On... Really, Really Slowly
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
05/08/2025 … Stephen Catling has a full suite of conditions and disorders which means his brain doesn’t work like most people’s.
Rosie O'Donnell: Common Knowledge
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
05/08/2025 … There she was, just metres away, the monster identified by no less than the President Of The United States as one of the most dangerous ‘threats to humanity’…
'The Fringe is a parallel universe where being a magician is perfectly reasonable...'
Ben Hart on the best and the worst of the festival
05/08/2025 … Magician Ben Hart is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with his new show, The Remarkable Ben Hart.
Marise Gaughan: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
05/08/2025 … Innumerable thirtysomething comedians have lamented their lost youth – but Marise Gaughan is one of the few to embrace the cosy mundanity of more settled times.
What is the name of Joe Wilkinson's postman character in After Life?
05/08/2025 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Michael Welch: All Rizz, No Filter
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
05/08/2025 … It takes a lot of money and work to put on an Edinburgh show, but strangely Michael Welch’s heart doesn’t seem to be in it.
Why live comedy will thrive in the age of AI
05/08/2025 … Artificial Intelligence has never really been a friend of comedy, especially in terms of writing it.