Mates Rates – The Golden Age Begins
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
25/08/2026 … Barrelling on to an extremely tuneless rewrite of The Final Countdown comes Mates Rates, an Aussie social media sketch trio bringing their work to the Fringe for…
Tue 25 August 2026
Olga Koch: Fat Tom Cruise
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
25/08/2026 … The set for Olga Koch’s Fat Tom Cruise is clinical – almost sterile.
Abby Govindan: Pushing 30
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
25/08/2026 … It feels like she should be playing a bigger, fuller room, but in every other respect Abby Govindan is everything you would anticipate from a comedian who made the…
Crudi Dench wins working-class Fringe award
25/08/2026 … Drag comedian Crudi Dench has won an award for the best show from an artist with a low-income background at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Friz Frizzle: A Certain Appeal
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
25/08/2026 … As disastrous starts to the Fringe go, Friz Frizzle took the biscuit, going blind just days before their first performance when their one good eye failed.
Garry Starr boosts ISH award coffers
25/08/2026 … Garry Starr has donated £1,600 to the prize fund of the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
© Matt Crockett / Channel 4 A pub is a great place for communities to bond
Joe Lycett celebrates the British boozer
25/08/2026 … As comedian Joe Lycett prepares to present his latest Channel 4 show, coming live from his own pub, he speaks about the need to celebrate and support the locals…
Mon 24 August 2026
© Bryan Berlin Depths of Wikipedia
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
24/08/2026 … Filthy-mouthed song parodist Kunt is not at the Fringe this year, but he is still getting laughs here.