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Edinburgh Fringe venue announced with shows
Beyond The Joke can exclusively reveal that Live Nation is set to stage Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 shows at Edinburgh Corn Exchange from Thursday 5 to Sunday 8 August. The shows will be Craig Hill - Pumped!, Daniel Sloss: HUBRiS and Henning Wehn: It'll All Come Out In The Wash.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 17th May 202120 names we'd like to see on Taskmaster
Which comics would you like to see on the show? Here are some name we think would make excellent competitors.
Chortle, 3rd March 2021Line up for Bristol Comedy Garden revealed
This year's Bristol Comedy Garden returns to Queen Square (June 3rd-7th) for a ninth edition of the South West's biggest comedy festival.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 12th March 2020Details of Alternative Election Night line-up revealed
Joining the political bigwigs will be a host comedians including: Jimmy Carr, Nish Kumar, Henning Wehn, Geoff Norcott, Sophie Willan and Tez Ilyas.
Channel 4, 11th December 2019How the Germans sold English comedy back to the English
The success of stand-up Henning Wehn, the self-styled "German Comedy Ambassador in London", who is now a UK TV panel show regular, has already softened up the UK for a Teutonic comedy invasion.
Adam Sherwin, i Newspaper, 4th November 2019Review: Henning Wehn, York
Brexit is hardly a barrel of laughs - unless you are in the company of Henning Wehn, the self-proclaimed German comedy ambassador.
Maxine Gordon, The York Press, 29th July 2019Review: Henning Wehn at Oxford Playhouse
'German Comedy Ambassador says DO mention the war'
Tim Hughes, Oxford Mail, 7th May 2019Series we've lost count (it's 57, if you must ask) of the panel show begins with David Dimbleby in the host's chair. Joining Merton and Hislop, meanwhile, are the doc-maker, Stacey Dooley and the German comic Henning Wehn, who is sure to land some digs at his adopted country's omni-Brexit-shambles.
Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian, 5th April 2019One Brexit positive? It may make HIGNFY watchable again
The panel show hasn't been funny since at least 2012. But the sheer stupidity and self-destructiveness of our politics may just help it rediscover its bite.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 5th April 2019New boutique comedy festival For Brighton
The first ever Brighton Comedy Garden will take place this summer with five nights of stand-up comedy presented in a boutique festival in the glorious surroundings of Preston Park from 19 - 23 June.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 8th March 2019