Catherine Cohen
- American
- Writer and musical comedian
Press clippings
Catherine Cohen: I had a stroke at 31
As she returns to Edinburgh after heart surgery, the comic talks about recovery - and taking on the big screen.
Anya Ryan, The Sunday Times, 11th August 2024Edinburgh Fringe: 10 award-winners
A mammoth 121 comedy shows at this year's Edinburgh Fringe programme boast that their performers have won awards, from Derek Awards (given by a bloke with 600 followers on Twitter) to Emmys. Here are just ten of them.
Chortle, 22nd July 2024Catherine Cohen: "I had a stroke at 31 - my brain felt like it'd short-circuited"
A year after the American cabaret star had to skip Edinburgh for emergency heart surgery, she's turned her medical crisis into comedy.
Helen Brown, The Telegraph, 21st July 2024Best Edinburgh Fringe Comedy 2024: Here are all 15 Edinburgh Comedy Award winners returning this August
With thousands of shows to choose from it can be hard to decide what to book at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - all these comedians are tried-and-tested comedy champions.
David Hepburn, The Scotsman, 18th July 2024Berk's Nest production company announces more Edinburgh Shows
Newly announced shows include the return of Sophie Duker, Celya AB, and Paul Williams - the "little Alex Horne" of Taskmaster New Zealand.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd April 2024Pleasance announces first Edinburgh Fringe shows
The Pleasance Theatre Trust is back for another summer with a fantastic programme of theatre, comedy, cabaret and family productions.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 20th February 2024The best theatre, comedy and dance of 2023
Julia Masli comes top in the Guardian's favourite live comedies this year, although she insists her show is not a comedy.
Arifa Akbar, Brian Logan and Lyndsey Winship, The Guardian, 21st December 2023Catherine Cohen on friend and fellow comic Megan Stalter: 'I'd never seen anyone like her'
The Fringe, friendship and fangirling over Taylor Swift: all this and more gets an airing as comic buddies Megan Stalter and Catherine Cohen set the world to rights.
Megan Merino, The List, 14th August 2023Catherine Cohen cancels Fringe run after stroke
Acclaimed US comic Catherine Cohen has had to cancel her entire Edinburgh Fringe run after suffering a "mini-stroke".
British Comedy Guide, 10th August 2023Catherine Cohen interview
Expect savage and sexualised skewering of millennial mores and a cabaret voice for the ages. All while dressed to (literally?) kill. I spoke to Cohen about blow dries, body image and being delusional.
Michael Whitham, Edinburgh Festivals, 4th August 2023