'Kevin Bridges will do well in comedy'
Our look back at Fringes past arrives at 2009
17/08/2020 … The 2009 Edinburgh Fringe, where Tim Key won the main comedy award for his show The Slutcracker.
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Mon 17 August 2020
Sat 15 August 2020
When Sarah Millican made her barnstorming debut
Our look back at the Edinburgh Fringe of 2008
15/08/2020 … Our journey through Fringes past today takes us to 2008: the year David O’Doherty won the main comedy award, and someone named Sarah Millican blew all away…
Fri 14 August 2020
© UKTV/Adam Lawrence 'I don't claim we were that innovative - but we were short and sharp'
Paul Whitehouse on the legacy of the Fast Show
14/08/2020 … As the TV channel Gold prepares to air a Fast Show retrospective, entitled Just A Load Of Blooming Catchphrases, co-creator Paul Whitehouse looks back at the…
© uktv 'I don't think we'll try to get the Fast Show machine back up again'
As a new retrospective airs, Charlie Higson mulls the show's legacy
14/08/2020 … As the TV channel Gold prepares to air a Fast Show retrospective, entitled Just A Load Of Blooming Catchphrases, co-creator Charlie Higson recalls working with Caroline…
'Part nice-but-dim cockney Herbert, part astute observer'
We go back to the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe... and Micky Flanagan's debut show
14/08/2020 … Our Edinburgh Fringe Time Machine stops in 2007 today; the year that Brendon Burns wont he main prize with his audacious So I Suppose THIS Is Offensive Now – with…
Thu 13 August 2020
How Peter Sellers discovered his talent for comedy
Exclusive extract from a new book about the Goon's formative years with the wartime gang shows
13/08/2020 … From the Goons to Pink Panther and much more besides, Peter Sellers was one of the biggest comedy stars of the 1960s and 1970s.
Tim Vine wins Edinburgh... by giving it a miss
Our look back at the Fringe of 2006
13/08/2020 … 2006 was the year the main Edinburgh awards were styled the if.
Wed 12 August 2020
Minchin, Watson, Gilbert... and Jim Bowen
Some of Chortle's reviews from the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe
12/08/2020 … 2005 was the year in which Laura Solon achieved the Edinburgh dream - an unknown playing a pub back room with a show she had to put together at the last minute because…