Edinburgh festival 2024

Why the funniest jokes at the Edinburgh fringe just didn’t make me laugh | Zoe Williams

Delayed in transit with Mr Z, I was looking for a way to fill precisely one minute. I’d scoped out my responsibility in...

‘Peter Capaldi was punched off his chair’: Fifty years of explosive theatre company Paines Plough | Stage

It began over a pint in a Bedford pub. Fifty years later, Paines Plough is a theatrical trailblazer. Dedicated to new plays, the...

‘I feel a rising anxiety …’ My odyssey through Edinburgh’s intense, unsettling one-to-one shows | Edinburgh festival 2024

I’m standing on an Edinburgh street corner waiting for my next show but things feel a little different: I’m in a queue of...

‘I exist outside of gender’: drag colossus Wet Mess on being ‘horny for your confusion’ | Edinburgh festival 2024

There are drag queens, drag kings – and then there’s Wet Mess. In May on Instagram, they revealed what is for them a...

‘I can move my body how I want’: standup Stephanie Laing on conquering her fear of public dancing | Edinburgh festival 2024

Stephanie Laing admits she hasn’t been very kind to her body over the years. “I’ve been an alcoholic, I’ve self-harmed, and just been...

After Baby Reindeer: how comedians are telling true stories of trauma and toxic relationships | Edinburgh festival 2024

‘If you’re not in an OK place, you’re just re-traumatising yourself,” says Anna Akana, who is performing her show, It Gets Darker, at...

The truth about life as a privileged comedian: ‘I knew if it all went wrong I could call my parents’ | Edinburgh festival 2024

No Edinburgh fringe is complete without a strident conversation about how much it costs artists to perform: who is excluded and who is...

Gay sheep and gaslighting: 10 of the funniest jokes from the Edinburgh fringe 2024 | Edinburgh festival 2024

Olaf Falafel: My desire to spontaneously sing The Lion Sleeps Tonight is always just a whim away.Jack Skipper: I failed RE. Couldn’t believe...

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