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Axis Of Awesome: The axis most awesome returns
Axis Of Awesome are Fringe legends, though only one third of the Fringe's own rock band was at the Edinburgh Festival last year, with Jordan and Lee sitting it out. But they're back with a brand new show called Viva La Vida Loca Las Vegas.
Chris Cooke, ThreeWeeks, 6th August 2014Edinburgh Fringe 2014 interview: Birthday Girls
Birthday Girlsare a brill comedy sketch trio formed following the demise of Lady Garden. They promise parcel, dancing and a buffet during this year's show at the Edinburgh Festival.
Laugh Out London, 6th August 2014The Inbetweeners end their journey Down Under
Here we try and pin the team behind the film down on the experience of working in the extreme heat of Oz, and ask the directors how they manage to get anything shot with four actors who try and make each other laugh all the time.
Keily Smith, BBC News, 6th August 2014The Inbetweeners 2, review: 'hysterically funny'
This film does The Inbetweeners justice.
Robbie Colin, The Telegraph, 6th August 2014Moscow's ninth-best comic battles for laughs
It has not been an easy time for Igor Meerson, the first Russian stand-up comic to put on a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He has had to abandon ten years of material because the humour is often lost in translation, his audiences never laugh consistently at the same jokes from one night to the next, and everyone wants to take him to task for his country's aggression towards Ukraine.
Jack Malvern, The Times, 6th August 2014Explain yourself: Jim Davidson
A profile of the controversal comedian.
Alex O'Connell, The Times, 6th August 2014The Inbetweeners 2, review
When one gag fails, another immediately follows it until, eventually, the film hits the funny bone.
Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 6th August 2014Just some of the many oddities I tripped over yesterday
Publicity is difficult at the Edinburgh Fringe. Acts hand out flyers to people in the street. And try to get articles and photos in the press. Two days ago, I went to a photoshoot for clowns performing at the Fringe. Apart from the clowns, I was the only person there.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 6th August 2014Why comedy and politics need a bulletproof persona
The biggest asset in politics, and comedy, is finding a personality, and sticking to it. Which is what Frankie Boyle and Nigel Farage have in common.
Matt Forde, The Guardian, 6th August 2014How a homophobic rant led me to come out in my standup
I'd never really talked about being gay in my comedy show - until I was bombarded with abuse for kissing my date in Soho.
Tom Allen, The Guardian, 6th August 2014A question of three: BEASTS
"What one things is guaranteed to split up a sketch group?"
ThreeWeeks, 6th August 2014A poem for Justice Radiator
Some comic poems from Robin and Partridge.
ThreeWeeks, 6th August 2014Thanks for the (Fringe) memories: The Nualas
The Nualas look back at past Fringe festivals.
ThreeWeeks, 6th August 2014Can Cuckoo survive with the replacement of star actor
Series two of the madcap Midlands comedy has had to replace the lead, bringing in the abs-laden Twilight star as Cuckoo Jr. Can he play comedy? Or should BBC Three have ended the show?
Hannah J. Davies, The Guardian, 6th August 2014Izzard's showcase: global gags are a funny business
International standups performed at an Edinburgh fringe gig compered by Izzard but the language barrier and cultural differences compromised their sets.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 6th August 2014Why are so few comics talking Scottish Independence?
Political stand-up in the UK doesn't measure up to the US success of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
Luke Toulson, The List, 6th August 2014The Grandees on the rise of clowning
Performers like Doctor Brown and The Boy with Tape on his Face have raised the artform's profile.
The Grandees, The List, 6th August 2014Why the Edinburgh Festival is like life
I reckon people deal with this overloading of events in different ways - it's a bit like life. Everyone is engaged in a mad scramble for satisfaction that the field of choice ought to facilitate but the truth is there's too much on and for many that becomes a burden.
Sara Sheridan, The Huffington Post, 6th August 2014Fringe Q&As: Ivo Graham
Ivo Graham speaks to HeraldScotland about Frosties, grandmothers, and being up past his bedtime.
The Herald, 6th August 2014Francesca Martinez on accepting disability
After years of being defined by her cerebral palsy, the comedian, author and actor had an epiphany. She decided to stop trying to fit in and just accept herself - 'wobbliness' and all.
Francesca Martinez, The Independent, 6th August 2014Who said it - Edinburgh Fringe or 'The Inbetweeners 2'?
Can you tell which jokes have been told at this year's Edinburgh comedy festival - and which feature in the new Inbetweeners 2 movie?
Alice Audley, The Telegraph, 6th August 2014Who said it - Edinburgh Fringe or 'The Inbetweeners 2'?
Can you tell which jokes have been told at this year's Edinburgh comedy festival - and which feature in the new Inbetweeners 2 movie?
Alice Audley, The Telegraph, 6th August 2014James Corden: why's everyone in USA talking about him?
The comedian and actor is well known in the UK, but now he is set to take over as host of The Late Late Show on CBS - and to star in a Disney movie with Meryl Streep.
The Guardian, 6th August 2014Warm-up comedians Joe Bor and Jo Caulfield now shine
Warm-up acts are the unsung stars of TV comedy shows whom the viewers at home never see, but Bor and Caulfield are taking their own material to this year's Festival.
Gerard Gilbert, The Independent, 6th August 2014Tim Renkow wins Amused Moose Laugh Off 2014
Tim Renkow has been named the winner of the Amused Moose talent search.
Andrew Dipper, Giggle Beats, 6th August 2014BWW reviews: Frank
A quirky film of a young man's quest to fulfill his musician dreams.
Shari Barrett, Broadway World, 6th August 2014Inbetweeners 2 review
It's a much funnier and more imaginative movie than the last instalment.
David Edwards, The Mirror, 6th August 2014The Inbetweeners 2 review
The follow-up to the record-breaking comedy spinoff sees our hapless, ordinary-boy heroes dispatched to Australia - but rest assured, they remain entertainingly incorrigible.
Mike McCahill, The Guardian, 6th August 2014A Touch Of Cloth III preview
If you watched the first and second instalments of Charlie Brooker's A Touch of Cloth then you'll know just how brilliant it is, and the third instalment, A Touch Of Cloth III: Too Cloth For Comfort is just as brilliant, and just as funny, if not funnier.
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 6th August 2014Why I'm a convert to free Fringe shows
Luke Toulson on the positives of going gratis.
Luke Toulson, Chortle, 6th August 2014Can James Corden cut it as a US chat show host?
Will James Corden take America by storm on The Late Late Show?
Benji Wilson, The Telegraph, 6th August 2014The Inbetweeners 2 review: It's knee-deep in hilarity
A script full of smutty one-liners and imaginatively filthy scenarios ensures that the antics of Will, Jay, Simon and Neil are as hilarious as ever.
Ben Rawson-Jones, Metro, 6th August 2014Will Adamsdale: a joyous return
Where the hell is Will Adamsdale? This is a question that Fringe stalwarts have been asking since the comedian-cum-raconteur's last show in 2007 - and if they haven't, they bloody well should have been.
Tom Slater, Spiked, 6th August 2014Bitesize Chekhov: D'Animate strikes again
A young and exciting new troupe, D'Animate Theatre has quickly made a name for itself at the Fringe for taking lesser-known works of old masters and reinterpreting them with farce, physical theatre and a little po-mo verve.
Tom Slater, Spiked, 6th August 2014Sam Simmons: 'Stand-up is a pretty amazing artform' (Link expired)
The mid-life crisis of an objectionable former muesli bar manufacturer drifting to his death at sea is the starting point for Sam Simmons' playful new show. Interview by Claire Smith.
Claire Smith, WOW247, 6th August 2014Making a Case for Dark Comedy #2: Rev
The show has always had a dark side, but what remains unwavering throughout each episode is Adam's faith and devotion to God.
Chris Marchand, Post Consumer Reports, 6th August 2014Videos
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