Sat 29 August 2009
Good News for Russell
Howard lands topical BBC Three series
29/08/2009 … Russell Howard’s topical comedy show has been given the go-ahead from BBC Three.
The biggest stunt on the Fringe
Schaffer scoops award for self-promotion
29/08/2009 … Lewis Schaffer has won the Cunning Stunt award for the best publicity stunt at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Abracadabra: German Humour Goes Global - Fringe 2009
29/08/2009 … The statement of international expansion in their show title can’t disguise the fact that Henning Wehn and Otto Kuhnle have found a formula that works for them…
Miles Jupp: Telling It Like It Might Be - Fringe 2009
29/08/2009 … Having long distanced himself from the laird of the manor character with which he established his name, the personable yet fuming Miles Jupp has shifted into someone…
Lewis Schaffer: Bigger and Blacker - Fringe 2009
29/08/2009 … I’ve been told that if you caught this show at the beginning of Lewis Schaffer’s Fringe run, you’d have been watching a very different, much less focused hour.
John Gordillo: Fuckonomics - Fringe 2009
29/08/2009 … John Gordillo’s offering this year is a well thought-out analogy of the sexual relationship as economic theory.
So You Think You're Funny? - Fringe 2009
29/08/2009 … Much has been made of the fact there were no women on the Edinburgh Comedy Awards shortlist, but you would hope there were more coming up through the system.