Press clippings
Edinburgh Fringe 2024: 13 Scottish Comics to Catch
We pick out a baker's dozen of Scottish comedians to add to your Edinburgh Fringe 2024 hitlist.
Laurie Presswood, The Skinny, 9th July 2024Twonkey: Custard Chaos
"It's a collection of my best bits pooled from ten solo shows plus material from my cancelled show Twonkey's Custard Club, which did not happen because of Covid."
Entertainment Now, 1st August 2023Paul Vickers interview
A Twonkey show is just I, it's not a play.
On The Mic, 12th July 2022Edinburgh festival 2022: 50 shows to see
Phil Wang makes a heroic return, Ian McKellen stars in a balletic Hamlet and Sophie Duker is gleefully carefree. Here are our picks of the festival's comedy, theatre and dance.
Brian Logan, Mark Fisher and Lyndsey Winship, The Guardian, 6th July 2022An interview with the Vickers Brothers
Two of Edinburgh's most talented siblings are combining for the Fringe 2022...
The Mumble, 20th June 2022Mr Twonkey interview
Twonkey's greatest Twitch, Princess Margaret and the pub quiz mafia...
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 15th October 2021Comedians on why they need an alter ego
For character comics such as Zach Zucker, Bilal Zafar, Paul Vickers, Sooz Kempner and Jay Bennett, performing as other people is a way to both escape from - and confront - their personal lives
Si Hawkins, The Guardian, 28th September 2021Paul Vickers (Mr Twonkey): making an album in lockdown
I was talking to musical one-off Paul Vickers (aka comedy one-off Mr Twonkey) a few weeks ago and we thought it might be interesting to do a blog about how, during the COVID lockdown, he had managed to write an entire album for his band Paul Vickers and The Leg.
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 23rd February 2021Fringe: 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 2020Twonkey fails to explain next week's comedy show...
Paul Vickers aka Twonkey performs his latest show Twonkey's Ten Year Twitch at the Soho Theatre in London next Monday night. He lives in Edinburgh. I live in London (ish). We talked via Apple FaceTime... We both got sidetracked in cyberspace...
John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 10th March 2020