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As the posters are ripped down and the bills are paid up comedians everywhere will be asking themselves whether it was worth going to the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Some have won awards, some have had good reviews, but for many the experience has been a steep learning curve. Even many of the performers who had decent attendances will have been shocked to discover that they attracted minimal attention from major press outlets.
Just before the Edinburgh Fringe started I interviewed Seann Walsh for The Independent on Sunday on the ups and downs of drinking. Walsh has something of a reputation as an imbiber.
5pm Update – Following publication of this piece Jason Byrne tweeted to explain that "Lee Evans begged me to close, he said he couldn't follow the byrne magic"...
This is a week bookended by Michael McIntyre, so if you are like the wag who just posted "thanks for the warning" on my Facebook page and maybe don't appreciate rapidfire, smiley observational humour, take a holiday now. For the remaining millions of you still out there and still reading, I was writing recently about comedians doing low-key try-out gigs in clubs and Michael McIntyre is so used to playing megavenues his gig tonight at the Bloomsbury Theatre is a handy warm-up for his appearance at C4's Comedy Gala next Saturday.
"The apotheosis of comic dislocation". It's a description I once read about the Chuckle Brothers, but I think it could just as easily describe Terry Alderton. What on earth is going on in the Essex comic's bonce when he is performing onstage? Weird characters emerge, bizarre conversations erupt, the universe is turned on its head, as Alderton is himself at the end of the gig. Is he talking out of his arse?
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