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Free on the Fringe

Get away from the big venues and take a plunge into the free fringe.

Review: Glasgow Comedy Festival Burns Night Gala

For strictly one night only the Whyte and Mackay Glasgow Comedy Festival came to London.

#LetsSellThisGigOut 4-15

Michael Legge will be bloody cross if you don't go to THESE shows at THESE times. Follow #LetsSellThisGigOut. Listen if you want to live.

17 free comedy recommendations for the Edinburgh Fringe

We've compiled some of the best free comedy shows at the Edinburgh Festival 2017 in this handy list below. Although they may be free to get in, there is always the option to donate at the end.

Behind the Scenes, The Alternative Comedy Experience

Four comedians talk about their experiences in The Alternative Comedy Experience, a recording of alternative Fringe Festival acts, put together by Stewart Lee.

Comedian of the month #19: Eleanor Tiernan

This month's Comedian Of The Month is the ever articulate and artistically mature Eleanor Tiernan, a comic who is particularly recognisable on the stand up circuit as a result of her time spent supporting acts such as Tommy Tiernan, Stewart Lee, Reginald D Hunter, Ardal O'Hanlon and Jason Byrne.

We have always known we are an island of hilarious people. And yet another bunch of comedians from these shores are about to make it big abroad, thanks to this new Comedy Lab programme tonight.

Headwreckers is the brainchild of the weird and wonderful David McSavage and it was conceived at the International Bar comedy club.

David and fellow Irish stand-ups James Goldsbury, John Colleary, Eleanor Tiernan and Declan Rooney came up with the idea of making a sketch show about a group of comedians who are making a sketch show.

It's all about the biggest losers, the worst ideas and the most embarrassing programme within a programme you will ever have seen.

McSavage is a national treasure at this stage of his comedy career here. So it's about time other people were allowed to witness the bizarre musings of McSavage for themselves.

Hopefully we'll see more of Headwreckers later in the year.

This Comedy Lab pilot brings together a motley crew of Irish stand-ups for a meta-take on the sketch show. While you've got to credit them with a new angle (we've already had YouTube-style, CGI-style and TV EPG-style this year) some of the sketches don't quite live up to the original premise.

Featuring David McSavage, James Goldsbury, John Colleary, Eleanor Tiernan and Declan Rooney, who sit around debating ideas and influencing each others' sketches mid-show. Definitely enough ideas for a series.