BCG Daily Monday 1st July 2024
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Funny At The Fringe - Alex Kitson: Must I Paint You a Picture?
"This is my debut hour of stand-up, but I have been at the fringe before as a student doing sketch comedy and split bill shows and here are my main tips."
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 1st July 2024
Edinburgh festival 2024: find the funny with these 20 comedy shows
A one-woman 90s romcom, boundary-testing standups and a new Taskmaster contestant make our comedy critic's list of the fringe's most promising tickets.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 1st July 2024
On the Mic Picks: Sam Lake
Check out Sam Lake's Edinburgh debut on YouTube, recorded in 2022 at the Monkey Barrell. He's great. It will set you up nicely for seeing him in person in the very same venue.
On The Mic, 1st July 2024
Want to get ahead in comedy? Don't be in London
Aaron Twitchen says moving out of the the capital made him a better comic.
Aaron Twitchen, Chortle, 1st July 2024
In Conversation with Alex Nissen from Dizney in Drag: Once Upon A Parody
A gender-bending pantomime romp through beloved fairytales told with drag performers giving (and receiving) positive lessons on respect, healthy masculinity, periods, and sex positivity.
Tabitha James, A Young(ish) Perspective, 1st July 2024
Harriet Dyer: Skin interview
I arranged a quick chat with Harriet ahead of next month's run.
Caro Moses, ThreeWeeks, 1st July 2024
American viewer discovers classic British comedy which has left him in hysterics
An American man has left Brits in hysterics after he posted his reaction to watching The Inbetweeners for the first time.
Eleanor Dye, Daily Mail, 1st July 2024
Theatre At The Fringe - interview - For the Love of Spam
For the Love of Spam is a story of canned meat and colonialism - and how those two intersect.
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 1st July 2024
Funny At The Fringe - Bella Hull: Piggie
My show is about lots of things. Expect Chihuahuas, Anne Robinson, and Party Rings. All in the flesh.
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 1st July 2024
New Edinburgh Festival Fringe HQ will be "base for next 100 years" as plans lodged
The new complex on Infirmary Street, near the Pleasance Courtyard, the Festival Theatre and Dovecot Studios, is aimed at creating a visible "legacy" of the 77-year-old festival within the city's cultural landscape.
Brian Ferguson, The Scotsman, 1st July 2024
Funny At The Fringe - 5 Mistakes That Changed History
It's History but not as you learnt it at school. It's about the stuff-ups that have made our world what it is today.
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 1st July 2024
Funny At The Fringe - Luke Chilton: Netflix and Chilton
I've made a show called Netflix and Chilton, it's a hilarious romp through this time I went abroad and lost my mind. I don't mean metaphorically I mean I literally thought I was being chased by the President of the United States. It's a barrel of laughs and it will be better if you are there so come.
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 1st July 2024
The Process of Analysis: Interview with Alex Kealy
Alex Kealy chats to Katerina Partolina Schwartz about his latest show, The Fear, and dissects this particular hour as well as his own writing process and how it relates to comedy.
Katerina Partolina Schwartz, Broadway Baby, 1st July 2024
Down The Foxhole: Interview with Amy Matthews
Back at the Edinburgh Fringe for her second year, Amy Matthews chats to Katerina Partolina Schwartz about her new hour, Commute With The Foxes in all of its lightness and sparkeliness.
Katerina Partolina Schwartz, Broadway Baby, 1st July 2024
Fleabag execs "demanded Andrew Scott was recast" days before filming
Andrew Scott almost lost his legendary Fleabag role as the so-called 'Hot Priest' as executives demanded that somebody else be cast in the role, the show's commissioner has revealed.
David Craig, Radio Times, 1st July 2024
Edinburgh Interview: Sam Cochrane on A Jaffa Cake Musical
"It's a perfect blend of catchy tunes and outrageous legal arguments - we think it'll be an utter joy for the whole family."
Greg Stewart, Theatre Weekly, 1st July 2024
Edinburgh Interview: Sierra Sevilla on For the Love of Spam
"What I cover in the show is quite vast - I'm having to teach people about Guam & Spam, our island's past and our present, and then the current political climate under US rule".
Greg Stewart, Theatre Weekly, 1st July 2024
Dad's Army was best use ever of licence fee, says ex-BBC comedy chief
The wartime sitcom is still drawing audiences half a century after it was first broadcast - making it excellent value for money.
Alex Farber, The Times, 1st July 2024
Filming underway on new Netflix series from writer of Derry Girls
A landmark hotel on the famous Antrim coast road has been undergoing a transformation over the last few days as filming get ready to roll for a brand new Netflix series from the talented creator of critically-acclaimed and multi-award-winning Derry Girls, Lisa McGee. How To Get To Heaven From Belfast will star Roísín Gallagher, Sinéad Keenan and Caoilfhionn Dunne as three childhood friends, now in their late 30s, who come together over news of a fourth friend's death.
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