Matt Forde
- 42 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
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Considering the tumultuous political landscape, now seems like a good time to launch a weekly satirical chatshow taking the mickey out of the mighty, and Unspun will be recorded a day before broadcast to ensure maximum topicality. Host Forde also feels like a good fit: with his dark suits, open-necked shirts and sensible haircut, the thoughtful, politics-obsessed standup could easily be mistaken for a roving BBC correspondent.
Graeme Virtue, The Guardian, 14th September 2016Can satire show Unspun humanise our MPs?
Trust in our leaders has never been lower. But now, Matt Forde's comic current affairs show is here to humanise the people behind the politics.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 12th September 2016Preview: Matt Forde gets political with Unspun on Dave
The show is recorded the day before transmission to give it that all-important topical edge.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 12th September 2016Edinburgh Diary: festivals, satire and Brexity Britain
The FT Weekend editor takes his first trip to the Fringe and visits the grand old man of Scottish politics.
Alec Russell, The Financial Times, 2nd September 2016How Brexit gave comedy the shot in the arm it needed
"I woke up on June 24, and thought 'Cor blimey, I didn't see that one coming!' " exclaims Henning Wehn, self-styled "German Comedy Ambassador in London", near the start of his Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Westphalia is Not an Option.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 15th August 2016Edinburgh Fringe: Why comedians need to get serious
found myself sitting at a comedy gig at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe the other day and having a Richard Pryor moment. It was a decent show, by an established comic, musing on the vagaries of life. It was funny and well observed but all I could think was, what am I doing here? I wanted something different. A comic who would use his or her wit to interrogate some of the big issues we're facing.
Will Gompertz, BBC News, 12th August 2016Political comedy isn't dead
Serious issues are back on the stand-up agenda. Here are the Fringe's hottest topics.
Stephen Armstrong, The Sunday Times, 7th August 2016Brexit and the Edinburgh fringe
Comedians from Al Murray to Bridget Christie explain why they tore up their planned sets and started from scratch after Brexit vote.
Hannah Ellis-Petersen, The Guardian, 4th August 201650 must-see comedy shows at the Edinburgh Fringe (Link expired)
Here at WOW 247 we've pooled together our comedy brains to pick out a whopping 50 shows we think make a good starting point for any Fringe adventurer.
Matthew Dunne-Miles, Finlay Greig and Craig Leiper, WOW247, 2nd August 2016Ten politicial Fringe shows
As politics gets more manic, and possibly depressing, than ever, here are ten shows that try to find the funny in the tumultuous times.
Chortle, 25th July 2016