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2025 Features
Interviews with comedians, comedy reviews, Perfect Playlists and other comedy features, all collected in one place.
Tue 29 July 2025
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'This taught me how funny and absurd a piece can be while telling a beautifully human story'
Lachlan Werner picks his comedy favourites
29/07/2025 … Absurd comedy ventriloquist Lachlan Werner is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with his new show WonderTwunk, about the strongest boy in the world… Here he picks…
Mon 28 July 2025
The best thing about the Fringe? Playing Football Manager
Jonny Pelham shares his Edinburgh highs and lows
28/07/2025 … Jonny Pelham is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with a show about ‘what it means to be diagnosed as 'neurodiverse,' what constitutes normality and how…
'Comedy clubs are the purest place for our artform'
Thor Stenhaug picks his Perfect Playlist
28/07/2025 … Thor Stenhaug, a Norwegian comedian based in the UK, is making his Edinburgh Fringe debut this year with One Night Stand Baby.
Sun 27 July 2025
Uber-embarrassing!
Katie Norris shares the best and worst of the Edinburgh Fringe
27/07/2025 … Katie Norris is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with her second solo show, Go West, Old Maid.
'Some of his jokes haven’t aged too well...'
Edinburgh Fringe stand-up Jamie MacDonald picks his comedy favourites
27/07/2025 … Jamie MacDonald is at the Edinburgh Fringe with his show Toxic Bastard about how as a white, middle-class, straight male he might expect people to consider him loathsome…
Sat 26 July 2025
© Alan Powdrill Never down a Tunnock’s teacake in one!
Olaf Falafel on the best and worst of the Edinburgh Fringe
26/07/2025 … Comedian Olaf Falafel is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with two shows: one in the kids’ section, one in the main comedy section.
'It pokes fun at every stand-up who has ever performed'
Mark Forward picks his Perfect Playlist of comedy favourites
26/07/2025 … Edinburgh Fringe comedian Mark Forward picks his favourite comedy moments… Andy Daly from the Comedy Death-Ray Album The Comedy Death Ray album…