Fringe
The 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe draws to a close today, Monday 28 August 2023, having brought together artists, arts industry, media and audiences from nearly 170 countries, with 2,445,609 tickets issued across the festival. The Fringe Society has issued the following statement.
I was so shocked by Martin Urbano's material that it took me a few minutes to get my head around it. Was this an American version of Jerry Sadowitz, pushing the offensiveness envelope as far as it would go?
In the 41st year of the most prestigious prize in live comedy Ahir Shah has been announced as the winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Sky Best Comedy Show, and Urooj Ashfaq as the winner of DLT Entertainment Best Newcomer, whilst ‘Show for Gareth Richards’ - organised by his best friends, comedians Danny Ward and Mark Simmons - has been awarded the Victoria Wood Award.
Edinburgh Comedy Awards Director Nica Burns has announced the nominees for the biggest prizes in live comedy, Sky Best Comedy Show and DLT Entertainment Best Newcomer celebrating the best up-and-coming comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with the Victoria Wood Award to be announced on Saturday 26th August.
As a popular podcaster, Liam Withnail has a film of the moment his life changed forever.
One minute he is chatting with his co-host Christopher Macarthur-Boyd, the next he is staggering around the room, after being told he has to go immediately to hospital.
The video of his reaction is the way he begins his show.
After that we go through the ten days he stayed in hospital, one by one.
Withnail introduces us to a world of graphs, of measurements,
The Dead Dad Show has become an Edinburgh trope – the show a comic makes when he loses his father is rumoured to be a sure-fire way to garner awards.
In his show Simon David simultaneously sends up this Fringe tradition while also giving us a truly original take on a Dead Dad Show.
He begins with a musical number.
In light of the devastating floods in Slovenia, Philipp Kostelecky who is of Austrian, Slovenian and American heritage, is going to donate proceeds from his gigs on Thursday and Friday to relief efforts.
Kostelecky says:"I grew up in Slovenia. It is a beautiful country and unique in so many ways. Although Slovenia is part of Central Europe it is often perceived to be part of Eastern Europe, and so news stories from this region are often overlooked.
Lindsey Santoro is one of those storytellers who becomes almost possessed when getting to the most exciting part of the story.
So she takes us on a girls’ hen trip to Blackpool – introduces us to some cut price male strippers – then recreates a dangerous riot among the crowd.
A trip to a climbing wall ends up in a ludicrous accident – which Santoro re-enacts, playing all the parts – from the climbing attendant Kevin to her thinner fitter friend.
We don’t discover San
Australia’s Tania Lacy makes a welcome return to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival after a 29-year absence with her new show ‘Everything’s Coming Up Roses’. The show is fresh from critically-acclaimed runs at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Adelaide Fringe.
In celebration of the launch of this year's Edinburgh Fringe, the annual Artist Address has taken place for the first time since 2019. The Fringe Society was delighted to welcome Le Gateau Chocolat as keynote for this important event.
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