MC Hammersmith: 1 Man 8 Mile
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
18/08/2022 … MC Hammersmith’s hard at work even before we’ve taken our seats, offering a freestyle rap about the audience members as we file into The Hive at the…
Thu 18 August 2022
Yasmine Day: I Saw A Ghost On Halloween
18/08/2022 … Yasmine Day sings about a surprisingly good-looking ghost she saw on Halloween in this track from the latest of her many debut albums.
© BBC How the Queen Mum loved funny foreigners
Allo Allo was her favourite sitcom
18/08/2022 … The Queen Mother was a fan of ’Allo ’Allo!, it has been claimed, even interrupting dinner parties so she could watch the latest episode.
Voting opens for Comedians' Choice Awards
Fringe performers pick their favourites
18/08/2022 … Voting has opened on the Comedians' Choice Awards - the only Edinburgh Fringe prizes determined solely by performers.
Wed 17 August 2022
'I might open a Free Fringe venue in my en suite'
Harriet Dyer’s Fringe cringe, binge and whinge
17/08/2022 … Harriet Dyer recalls her most embarrassing Edinburgh experience; what she can't get enough of at the festival; and the worst thing about the Fringe.
Rhiannon Shaw wins David Nobbs comedy writing prize
For her script about time travel tourism
17/08/2022 … Comedy writer Rhiannon Shaw has won this year’s David Nobbs prize, given out in honour of the late Reggie Perrin ceator.
Tom Ward: Anthem
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
17/08/2022 … Determined to be both an iconoclast and a man of the people, Tom Ward appears doomed to failure – but has a bloody good go at reconciling these…
Shannon Matthews: The Musical
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
17/08/2022 … Making a musical about Shannon Matthews – the nine-year-old girl whose 2008 kidnap was orchestrated by her mother Karen in a bid to make money –…