BCG Daily Saturday 27th July 2024
Press clippings
"Redefine conversation": how Just A Minute can help people living with dementia
An academic paper co-written with Paul Merton says the show creates ideal conditions for "cognitive overload" and demonstrates how to avoid it.
Steven Morris, The Guardian, 27th July 2024EdFringe Talk: The Nadia Quinn Show!
"I've been restructuring my relationship with myself and my art and it feels like it's coming to the end of a chapter there, which is really wonderful and exhilarating."
Dan Lentell, Get Your Coats On, 27th July 2024EdFringe Talk: Help! My Vagina Is Trying to Kill Me!
"I want to share my experiences to inspire further conversation. It's honestly the most authentic and vulnerable thing I've ever written, and I'm kinda really proud of it."
Dan Lentell, Get Your Coats On, 27th July 2024EdFringe Talk: Situations and Confr/plications
"For me the Fringe really lies in the atmosphere on the streets, and I've been in and amongst that every August since I can remember."
Dan Lentell, Get Your Coats On, 27th July 2024On the Mic Picks: Rachel Kaly
Comedy that means something. Rachel writes and performs with the depth and integrity of a comedian way beyond her years.
On The Mic, 27th July 2024A Festival-goers' guide to the Fringe comedy show scene by Vladimir McTavish
Edinburgh residents cannot have failed to notice that the Fringe is about to hit town. As I predicted in these pages a couple of weeks back, the giant billboards are already popping up in every available square-inch of railing or lamp post.
Vladimir McTavish, Edinburgh Evening News, 27th July 2024EdFringe Talk: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
"Every Fringe is a learning experience that brings its own challenges and lessons - I cannot wait to see what Fringe 2024 will teach me."
Dan Lentell, Get Your Coats On, 27th July 2024Interview with writer, director and improviser Jamie Sykes
"The show has a few dance numbers to allow the incels to fully express their inner emotional turmoil. There is one in particular that focuses on their sexual frustration that I love."
Tom Inniss, Voice Magazine, 27th July 2024Interview with Jae West, actress and co-producer with The Hairy Godmothers
"The resolution that we get to at the end of both shows is heart-warming and nostalgic. Although we have a lot of laughs and can be very silly and mischievous throughout the show, both of the shows come to a strong message that we believe in."
Tom Inniss, Voice Magazine, 27th July 2024Fix the Fringe? What if it just isn't worth fixing?
With all the people saying the Fringe is dying, perhaps it is time to actually put it out of its misery. Nothing lasts forever, and perhaps we should move on to something new.
Ian Wolf, Chortle, 27th July 2024Michelle Brasier picks her comedy favourites
'The most important thing I have ever seen as an actor'
Chortle, 27th July 2024
Loud and queer: comics and out celebs on the culture that helped them find their true selves
Rosie Jones, Stephen K Amos and more on what influenced them.
Michael Cragg, Amelia Abraham and Michael Segalov, The Guardian, 27th July 2024Improv At The Fringe - Holy Sh*t Improv
"Technically, it's a longform improv show with two halves."
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 27th July 2024Fringe Quickies: 181 - Fan/Girl
"I spray a lot of Charlie Red."
WJ Quinn, The Quintessential Review, 27th July 2024Funny At The Fringe - Catherine McCafferty: (Not) That Bad
"(Not) That Bad is a show about death, dating, and diarrhea."
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 27th July 2024Aaron Nemo: Help! Do I need to translate my American jokes for the UK?
Greetings, esteemed British readers. Or should I say, 'ello guv'nors? I'm fairly certain I shouldn't.
Aaron Nemo, Chortle, 27th July 2024Have a Gander at The Edinburgh Fringe 2024 - Olivia Levine: Unstuck
Ahead of their debut stand-up tour, Olivia Levine gave Corr Blimey an insight into their show, Unstuck, coming to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Corr Blimey, 27th July 2024Interview: A Digital Pint with... Kelly Bachman
Kelly Bachman is looking to reclaim the stage and discuss what defines her comedy career after gaining notoriety following an encounter with convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein.
Jake Mace, Binge Fringe, 27th July 2024An interview with Natasha Pearl Hansen
The Mumble are excited for the Fringe debut of a superb American stand-up.
The Mumble, 27th July 2024
Katherine Ryan: "My love language is intimacy. That's what my comedy is about"
The comedian, 41, talks about parents, children, her hot blonde cheerleader days and not lying about her love of money.
Vicki Power, The Guardian, 27th July 2024Comedians mine Ozempic trend for laughs at Edinburgh Fringe
Female comics will confront body dysmorphia by turning the mirror on themselves and then back on society.
Vanessa Thorpe, The Guardian, 27th July 2024Funny At The Fringe - Louise Atkinson: She's Got the Look
"So it's looking at how we falsely make presumptions about people based on how they look."
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 27th July 2024Fringe Quickies: 184 - Four More Short Plays Loosely Linked by the Theme of Crime
"Our previous show went so well, we decided to make a follow-up!"
WJ Quinn, The Quintessential Review, 27th July 2024Sophie Duker on the best and worst of the Fringe
Everyone's horny as hell and hardly anyone does anything about it!
Chortle, 27th July 2024
Fringe preview review: Michael Kunze: Infinity Mirror
This is one of those shows that will really lift your afternoon at the Fringe and will start your day with a full beam of sunshine.
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 27th July 2024Funny At The Fringe - Catherine McCafferty: (Not) That Bad
"It's mostly just a show about all the most toxic things I think day to day."
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 27th July 2024Unfiltered #37 - The reality of getting Fringe ready with The Sex Lives of Puppets
Today we're doing a photoshoot. This is my first ever naked photo, and I have to say, as an older puppet, I'm excited.
The Quintessential Review, 27th July 2024Fringe Quickies: 186 - Robin Grainger: Refurb
"My past two Edinburgh fringe runs ended up selling out."
WJ Quinn, The Quintessential Review, 27th July 2024Miriam Margolyes on her new Fringe show, Nicola Sturgeon and Gaza
I speak to Miriam Margolyes over Zoom the morning after England's defeat to Spain in the final of the Euros.
Ross Hunter, The National (Scotland), 27th July 2024
Susie McCabe forced to axe gigs after emergency heart procedure
Glasgow comic Susie McCabe has been forced to axe a run of gigs after being rushed to hospital.
The 44-year-old said she called an ambulance on Friday before undergoing an emergency heart procedure.
Sian Maher, The Sun, 27th July 2024Funny At The Fringe - Paulina Lenoir: Puella Eterna
"Puella Eterna is a 'self-renowned' grandiose poet on a mission to answer life's most existential questions."
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 27th July 2024Almost Legal Alien Q&A
BWW caught up with Mustafa Algiyadi on bringing Almost Legal Alien to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Kat Mokrynski, Broadway World, 27th July 2024Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: Yozi
The Australian performer on their absurd-sketch-clown-comedy-theatre.
Fest Mag, 27th July 2024Rob Auton's Festival Mixtape
Featuring Elbow, Chic, Gruff Rhys and more.
Rob Auton, Fest Mag, 27th July 2024Interviews: Salty Brine & Skank Sinatra
Cabaret stars Salty Brine and Skank Sinatra on how the music of Annie Lennox and Frank Sinatra soundtracks their exploration of self.
Kirstyn Smith, Fest Mag, 27th July 2024Interview: Benny Shakes and Tom Whiston
The comics behind kids game shows The Kids Always Win and Blue Badge Bunch discuss the benefits of healthy (and rigged) competition.
Claire Sawers, Fest Mag, 27th July 2024Videos
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