Paul Currie

Fringe 2017 - Bob Slayer's Heroes of Fringe

Known for its creative programming, guerrilla tactics and innovative Pay What You Want model, Bob Slayer's Heroes - returning to Edinburgh for its sixth year - is guided by the passionate belief that performers should come first. Its artists always take the lion's share of ticket sales and enjoy total creative freedom.

Leicester Comedy Festival award nominees

The nominations have been announced for Leicester Comedy Festival 2017's awards.

Laugh Out London's Edinburgh Fringe comedy awards 2016

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is almost over and it's award season already, so to misqoute the Sex Pistols nevermind the if.comeddies it's the Laugh Out London Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Awards 2016 (or LOLlies as they are affectionately known)!

Voice's pick of the Edinburgh Fringe 2016

We announce, in no particular order, the best shows from our time at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016. The cream of the crop, only the best.

Alexis Dubus & Brendon Burns boycotting Adelaide Fringe

International comedians say they are to boycott the world's second largest fringe festival in the face of poor ticket sales, badly behaved audiences and a lack of appreciation of shows with artistic merit.

Paul Currie: Edinburgh Fringe 2015 interview

A chat with Paul Currie.

Fringe comedy debut: Paul Currie

The comedian appears for the first time at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2013.

The BBC must've been delighted with the first series of Russell Kane's Live at the Apollo-for-yoofs - a third season is already in production, before the second batch has even aired. The format remains largely unchanged for Live at the Electric 2.0: Kane introduces a mix of character comics and sketch acts with a younger, trendier edge than McIntyre's relatively geriatric affairs.

But, wisely, most of the pre-edited VTs that lead the first series have gone, replaced by greater focus on the 'live' part of the title. Welcome new additions to the line-up include suave French misanthrope Marcel Lucont (the character creation of Alexis Dubus), who dishes out some inventive sex advice, and weirdo Northern Irishman Paul Currie, who silently, and absurdly, recreates the iconic Russian roulette scene from The Deer Hunter with the help of a monkey puppet and some theatrical gestures.

Not all the skits hit the mark, though. YouTube star Chris Kendall (know as 'Crabstickz' on the interwebs) spoofs Robert Pattinson's Twilight turn about five years too late, and Kane's own The Only Way is Shakespeare sketch has one joke: saying rude words in a thespian tongue. But the rotating cast make this well worth sticking with, and there are some cracking acts to come later in the series.

Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival 2013 - Nominees

Barbara Steele, Francesca Martinez, Nish Kumar, Paul Currie and Romesh Ranganathan are in the running in the Best Show category.