2018 Edinburgh Fringe

What are you going to do once the Fringe is over?

Now it's time to curl up and cry.

Who would be your perfect double act partner?

Whats's the most drunk or wasted you have been?

'I threw my phone into the woods on mushrooms'

Interview: Jim Tavaré

Jim Tavaré staging Fringe return with darker routine.

What is the best joke in your show?

Some comedians don't mind sharing..

What's the worst place you've ever stayed?

'We had to use a tortilla for toilet paper'

Who is the best person you've met at the Fringe?

"Benedict Cumberbatch stole fmy act... literally!"

Jim Tavare on surviving a near-fatal car crash

It was while he was still lying on the road on a stretcher high above Los Angeles, having just been cut from his car after a head-on collision, that the thought first occurred to Jim Tavare.

Jim Tavaré: 'Just going on stage can help depression'

Returning 90s Fringe star no longer worries about dying in front of an audience after nearly perishing for real last year.

What's the oddest prop you've used at the Fringe?

'We ended up sleeping in our 6ft vagina'

Jim Tavaré on returning to comedy

'I almost died three times'

The comics turning tragedy into laughs

A former alcoholic, a cancer survivor and a man who lost all his money in a Bitcoin crash are among the comics coming back from the brink at the Edinburgh fringe.

What is you abiding memory of your first Fringe?

'Seeing Simon Munnery with a glove made of dildos'

Jim Tavaré: 10 things that make me laugh

Jim Tavaré writes a piece for us ahead of his new show from Deadpan to Bedpan at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

You have to be joking? Jim Tavare

Jim Tavare interview.

Ten comics at the Fringe for the first time in a while

Ten veteran comedians who are making their first festival appearances in a long time... or even ever.

Ten comics returning to the Fringe after a long absence

We kick off our annual series previewing just a tiny proportion of the comedy offerings at the Edinburgh Fringe with ten of the veteran comedians who are making their first festival appearances in a long time... or even ever.

Jim Tavaré: the Edinburgh interviews 2018

Jim Tavaré interview.

Interview: rarely asked questions - Jim Tavare

If you are returning to Edinburgh after a break it helps if you have a story to tell. Jim Tavare has had a break in every sense and a story to tell.

Interview with Jim Tavare

Jim Tavare, best known for playing Tom the Innkeeper from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, talks to Voice about his accident, his career in comedy, and why he doesn't feel the need to be a social commentator

Fifty-word Fringe pitch: Jim Tavare

This time it's the turn of Jim Tavare.

A piggy interview with Jim Tavare

Jim Tavare interview.

Ten things we know about the 2018 Fringe

Hundreds of Edinburgh Fringe shows went on sale yesterday, bringing the total to 582 in the comedy section alone. Here are ten things we've learned from this batch, the last before the official programme is released online on May 17.

Jim Tavare to tell story of car accident at Fringe

Comedian and Harry Potter star Jim Tavare is returning to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August to tell the story of the car accident in California last year which nearly killed him.