© James Duncan Davidson Fri 28 July 2023
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Catherine Tate's sketch comedy is the stuff of legend for me...
A Strange Loop star Larry Owens picks his comedy favourites
28/07/2023 … American comic Larry Owens – who won a Drama Desk Award for his starring performance in the off-Broadway musical A Strange Loop – brings his new…
The best documentaries about the Edinburgh Fringe
Alison Spittle has some recommended viewing
28/07/2023 … There are as many documentaries on the Edinburgh fringe as students flyering the Royal Mile – loads! I myself was the subject of a documentary filmed nine…
© Jacqui Double 'He made a difference. He did something valuable and important'
Comics pay tribute at a wake for alternative comedy pioneer Tony Allen... who's still alive
28/07/2023 … Fellow comedians paid their respects to the godfather of alternative comedy, Tony Allen, at his wake last night – even though he is very much alive.
Such towering human effort is poured into the Fringe... and it just melts like snow at the end of August
Pierre Novellie on the highs and lows of Edinburgh
28/07/2023 … Pierre Novellie is heading to the Edinburgh Fringe next week for a full run of his stand-up show Why Are You Laughing?, on at Monkey Barrel at 7.
The Funny Thing About Death by Jo Caulfield
Review of the comedian's memoir about her late sister
28/07/2023 … Understandably, there's a sizeable part of the publishing industry devoted to well-meaning cancer memoirs.
Can Stuart Laws break a world record?
Comic's bid to enter the beer-mat-flipping history books
28/07/2023 … Stand-up Stuart Laws is attempting to break the world record for most beer mats flipped and caught in 60 seconds.
Flat And The Curves: Woman up!
28/07/2023 … Here's comedy cabaret group Flat And The Curves urging people to 'woman up and grow a twat' – a far more impressive feat of fortitude than the…