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With a decade’s worth of circuit experience, Thanyia Moore thought she was going to storm the Edinburgh Fringe with her 2022 debut like Usain Bolt stormed the 2012 Olympics. But her best-laid plans ...
Yep, Eric Rushton has incorporated a new lothario swagger into his comic persona. All of which works comedically because, I’m sorry to report, it’s coming from someone with an otherwise pretty dweeby ...
At a fresh-faced and motor-mouthed 46, Desiree Burch leverages both the fire of youth and the wisdom of age in her new show The Golden Wrath, looking at the physiological and psychological processes ...
Mark Steel is fronting a new BBC Sounds podcast about the ‘McLibel’ trial, the longest-running case in English legal history. It came about when McDonald’s sued members of environmental group London ...
The profundity of anything more than silliness itself is left to more cerebral or earthy modern clowns like Dr. Brown or Trygve Wakenshaw; Tape Face is committed to pointless playfulness for better or ...
James Bond is to be played by a woman for the first time – and here’s the theme tune. At least, this is what musical comedian Katie Pritchard thinks the Girl Bond titles might sound like, if an ...
Hardeep Singh Kohli has appeared in court charged with sex-related offences. The 56-year-old comedian denied six charges relating to three women, said to have occurred between 2007 and 2016. Glasgow ...
Ed Night is back to a decent work rate again, having taken a five-year gap before his 2024 Fringe show, The Plunge. Having amassed a following of 58k on Instagram – largely for his sketches with Paddy ...
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing producer Lisa Clark has written a second book in the guise of the show’s third star, Ted The Dog. Pup Fiction will be out next month and follows the success of his ...
Will & Noah have put a lot of effort into their Fringe debut as a double act, with neat graphics (with a little help from AI) and music and sound cues to help elevate the sketches.
Holly Spillar contrasts her life with that of a baby born into privilege – with the aid of a loop pedal. The track comes from the comedian’s Edinburgh Fringe show Tall Child, which is on at Underbelly ...
The Electric Head have won the Galton & Simpson award for their scripted comedy, so of course they are at the Edinburgh Fringe without a script. Instead, Al Ronald and Cy Henty serve up a long-form ...