2015 Edinburgh Fringe

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Don't learn from your mistakes, enjoy the mistakes of others. Steve N Allen's Edinburgh show for 2015 is all about the mistakes that have been covered in the news. From companies miss-selling ("I tried sexting the other day. It's a great way to get the PPI people to leave me alone." ), accountants who can't add up ("I've been tweeting Tesco with all my receipts saying I know this won't fix all your accountancy issues, but every little helps." ) and politicians who sext the wrong people ("Poor Brooks Newmark. Sending nude pics doesn't affect how good you are at your job. I sent three before I started this show." ). No body is perfect but this show should leave people feeling slightly more perfect in comparison.

Each year the news addict Steve N Allen brings a different SomeNews live show to the Fringe. This year's offering is based on the Alexander Pope quote: "To err is human, to laugh at other people erring is even more so." That might not be the exact quote, but just chalk it up as another "misstake".

Stand-up comedian Steve N Allen started as a commercial radio DJ and it was there he became addicted to news. He turned that addiction into a website, podcast, mobile app and now a live comedy festival show. The SomeNews Live Show has been performed at the Manchester Comedy Festival, the Leicester Comedy Festival and the Brighton Fringe.

Steve N Allen

Mr Steve N Allen is a stand-up comedian and radio presenter who comes from Nottinghamshire, and actually started out as a chemist. It was through writing jokes for other radio presenters (and getting paid 50p per joke) that Steve got a chance to host his own shows.

Steve now performs as a stand-up in clubs across the UK. In 2010 Steve developed the SomeNews project that includes a website, a mobile phone app, and a podcast that has also been distributed on several internet radio stations. SomeNews is now a weekly show on Fubar Radio. The SomeNews project turned into a live show seen at comedy festivals across the UK and forms part of a weekly comedy night in London.