Karen Koren
- Executive producer
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'So You Think You're Funny?' 2022 open for entries
The So You Think You're Funny? new act stand-up competition is now open for 2022 entries.
British Comedy Guide, 7th January 2022Omar Badawy wins 'So You Think You're Funny?' 2021
Stand-up Omar Badawy has won the So You Think You're Funny? new act competition. Rae Brogan and Andy Watts were the runners up.
British Comedy Guide, 27th August 2021Show may be reduced but it still goes on - Karen Koren
It's the second week of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It may not be the same as the last Fringe in 2019, but there are live shows on and there are audiences coming to see them.
Karen Koren, Edinburgh Evening News, 19th August 2021Looking beyond Fringe for signs of a brighter future
It remains to be seen what share of arts funding will find its way to comedy clubs.
Karen Koren, Edinburgh Evening News, 3rd September 2020Fringe: is stand-up comedy doomed to fail online?
Can stand-up ever work as well on a laptop screen as it does in front of a live audience in a hot, sweaty Edinburgh basement? Kate Copstick asks some Fringe veterans.
Kate Copstick, The Scotsman, 29th July 2020Gilded Balloon takes stand against toxic culture
In recent weeks, the Gilded Balloon, one of our oldest Scottish comedy production companies, has taken the highly unusual step to publicly announce a life ban for the comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli after comedian Lulu Popplewell complained he tried to use his status to proposition her with sex at the Edinburgh Fringe last year.
Tom Wood, The Scotsman, 21st July 2020Gilded Balloon announces online Fringe line-up
Along with all the wonderful reminders of Fringes past, there will be new work from some of the performers who were due to be appearing at the venue this year.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 1st July 2020Gilded Balloon founder's dismay at 'greed' from rivals
Karen Koren, one of the leading figures in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the last 35 years, says the event has become tarnished by over-commercialism and "greed" from other venue operators.
Edinburgh Evening News, 18th April 2020Gilded Balloon's Karen Koren on Craig Ferguson
"I paid Craig Ferguson £30 and he was heckled off stage."
Karen Koren, Edinburgh Evening News, 2nd May 2019Karen Koren reveals she has been battling cancer
One of the best-known figures on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the last 30 years has revealed that she has been secretly battling cancer while programming one of its biggest venues.
Brian Ferguson, The Scotsman, 18th August 2018