What I've learned about marketing a show at the Edinburgh Fringe
By comedian and advertising creative Alice Brine
28/06/2022 … Being a stand-up comedian can actually take you down a lot of unexpected career paths.
Tue 28 June 2022
Suzi Ruffell announces new tour, Snappy
Short run of dates this autumn
28/06/2022 … Suzi Ruffell has announced a new live tour, Snappy.
Frankie Boyle up for literary award
For his debut crime novel Meantime
28/06/2022 … Frankie Boyle’s first novel has been nominated for a crime-writing award.
Canadian comedian Nick Nemeroff dies at 32
28/06/2022 … Canadian comedian Nick Nemeroff died yesterday at the age of 32.
© kaysgeog/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 BBC moves its Edinburgh festival base
Corporation joins Fringe Central in the new £850m St James Quarter
28/06/2022 … The BBC and performers’ hub Fringe Central will be moving their Edinburgh festivals operations to the city’s huge new shopping centre this year.
Mon 27 June 2022
Sex Bomb by Sadia Azmat
The Lives And Loves Of An Asian Babe: A Memoir
27/06/2022 … Few aspects of life come laden with as much cultural baggage as sex and sexuality, with all its mores and taboos hardwired into the society in which you grew up.
Maisie Adam fronts cask beer campaign
...taking on Twitter's real ale haters
27/06/2022 … Maisie Adam has signed up to front a campaign to encourage people to drink real ale.
Simon Brodkin: When the KKK grand wizard outed me as Jewish...
Comic recalls his antisemitic social media pile-ons
27/06/2022 … Simon Brodkin has spoken about the social media pile-ons he has endured – just because he’s Jewish.