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Review: Taking hidden camera pranks to non-PC levels
The controversial comedy I'm Spazticus - featuring disabled performers playing hidden camera pranks - was unashamedly un-PC, but only sporadically funny.
Caroline Westbrook, Metro, 20th August 2012James Everett adds his voice to the Fringe ticket price
'What if Michael McIntyre was charging £50? Is it then OK to pay £25 for Stewart Lee?'
James Everett, The Scotsman, 20th August 2012Richard Herring developing satirical Ra-Ra Rasputin sitcom
Stand-up comedian Richard Herring is developing a new sitcom set in pre-revolutionary Russia, which aims to satirise modern Britain.
British Comedy Guide, 20th August 2012Reeves & Mortimer return to TV with Lucky Sexy Winners
Shooting Stars may have been axed, but Vic & Bob are back on Channel 4 with an even stranger quiz show. We need them more than ever, argues Harriet Gibsone.
Harriet Gibsone, The Guardian, 18th August 2012Rebecca Front reveals how she deals with being Tuckered
The BBC's political satire returns to our screens this autumn and gets its teeth into coalition government.
Nick Clark, The Independent, 16th August 2012Fringe diaries #5: Steve Shanyaski
When I loaded up my car to breaking point on the day of my arrival in Edinburgh - D-day - I had all my rules in place to survive a month in "The Burg": Don't drink. Simple.
Steve Shanyaski, Giggle Beats, 16th August 2012Russell Brand shouldn't speak for everyone on drugs
So because it worked for him, Russell Brand is persuaded that abstinence-based recovery, rather than reliance on methadone, is the best way to help those with the "greedy disease£ of opiate dependence. Funny, I didn't have the madcap comedian down as a conservative with a small c but if the acres of media coverage around his BBC3 programme From Addiction to Recovery are anything to go by, he's certainly a lot less progressive than he likes to make out.
Susie McLean, The Independent, 16th August 2012Tiffany Stevenson talks Lady GaGa and Justin Bieber
Ahead of her return to Edinburgh, the stand-up and star of STV's Show Me The Funny is looking to get people Googling...
STV, 12th August 2012Video - Russell Brand: 'I took drugs every day'
Russell Brand has told Newsnight's Stephanie Flanders he believes in "abstinence-based recovery" as a method to tackle drug and alcohol addiction.
The comedian has made a documentary for BBC Three charting his own recovery, which includes footage of his life as a drug addict.
"I took drugs every single day," he said.
Stephanie Flanders, BBC News, 10th August 2012Everything is funny in her Kristine Levine's hands
Kristine Levine has turned some serious hardships in her life into comedy gold, from childhood abuse to a suicide bid by a straying husband - but it's all genuinely funny in her hands, says fellow comic Doug Stanhope.
Doug Stanhope, The Scotsman, 5th August 2012