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Three debut comedy acts
Three debut stand-up shows being staged at Edinburgh Festival 2023...
Caro Moses, ThreeWeeks, 31st July 2023Edinburgh Fringe: The Rise of the Comedy Director
What is a Fringe Director? What do they even do? John Tothill, Mary O'Connell and Tamsyn Kelly explain how directors have helped shape their Edinburgh Fringe shows.
Laurie Presswood, The Skinny, 27th July 2023John Tothill: The Crete Festival Fringe
John Tothill has completely uncontroversially been given £300m by the Fringe Society. Unrelated, he's booked a holiday to Greece in the middle of August and decided to channel £300m into moving the Fringe to Greece.
LMAOnaise, 25th July 2023John Tothill interview
'I'd love to see Florence Nightingale let her hair down for once'. We talk the pursuit of pleasure with The Last Living Libertine John Tothill.
Kevin Ibbotson-Wight, The Wee Review, 20th July 2023Review: Fast Fringe at Leicester Square Theatre
This bumper London edition of Edinburgh treat Fast Fringe is a wham-bam parade of quick-as-lightning stand up, sketches and musical comedy. The night is the perfect fringe megamix of three-minute wonders, perfect for those with goldfish-like attention spans.
Rupert Dannreuther, To Do List, 17th July 2023Funny At The Fringe - interview - John Tothill: The Last Living Libertine
"My show is a manifesto (Yes! Manifesto! No! I don't know what that word means!) in favour of pleasure, which I think is in major crisis in this country."
Holly, Phoenix Remix, 17th July 2023Pleasance puts lots more Edinburgh shows on sale
The second Edinburgh Fringe announcement for the Pleasance Theatre Trust is a whopper with returning award-winning acts, amazing newcomers, European sensations, shows with fun for all the family and political chatterings.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th March 20232Northdown New Comedian Of The Year 2022 review
The same faces often pop up across multiple new act finals, but the competition run by London venue 2Northdown finds a fresher batch of funny than most. And the 12 who made it to the final - whittled down from around 400 entries - ensured a very entertaining evening.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 30th November 2022John Tothill wins 2Northdown New Act Competition 2022
John Tothill has been named the winner of the 2Northdown New Act Competition 2022.
British Comedy Guide, 29th November 2022