Press clippings
Malcolm Hardee Awards 2023 winners
Phil Ellis, John Fleming and Julia Masli have won the 2023 Malcolm Hardee Award trophies.
British Comedy Guide, 27th August 2023'I'll never be rich': Edinburgh fringe stand-ups consider the cost of living - and comedy
As the expense of performing and watching shows at the fringe is ever rising, three comedians ask their audiences to reassess what they place value on.
Rachael Healy, The Guardian, 21st August 2023Tom Mayhew creates fake Telegraph website to promote his show
To help promote his Edinburgh Fringe show, Tom Mayhew has made a fake Telegraph website that promises readers a list of the best jokes of all-time.
British Comedy Guide, 10th August 2023Tom Mayhew picks his comedy favourites
"Suzi Ruffell's show made me unashamed of growing up poor."
Chortle, 4th August 2023Tom Mayhew. GM Fringe 2023
There's something a little special about an Edinburgh preview. Sure elements might not make it through to the final product. Things will change, become more refined. But a preview - there's something sort of intimate about it - you see the comedian at work, where things have come from, and there are often those off the cuff moments and comments that won't make it through to the final show. You see something a little more of the performer.
Charlie Hoosen-Sykes, Canal St Online, 24th July 2023Edinburgh 2023: pick of the programme - Pay What You Can
Free Fringe/pay-what-you-can shows typically mean that the acts don't have to pay a huge venue registration fee which makes it a lot more achievable to fund an Edinburgh run.
Natalie O'Donoghue, Broadway World, 21st June 202350 £2k awards announced from the £100k 'Keep It Fringe Fund'
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced the recipients of the 'Keep it Fringe' fund, a new initiative to support Fringe artists, led by Fringe Society President Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd April 2023LGBTQ+ comedians on how transphobia poisoned comedy - and how they're moving on from the bigots
In recent years comedians like Ricky Gervais and Dave Chappelle have become the spearheads of the "anti-woke" comedy movement, particularly targeting trans and non-binary comedians.
Asyia Iftikhar, Pink News, 19th August 2022Emergency Question: Which is the sexiest TV puppet?
Edinburgh Fringe comedians share their kinks...
Chortle, 18th August 2022Emergency question: What's the worst thing you've eaten for a bet?
Edinburgh Fringe comedians answer.
Chortle, 14th August 2022