August 2013

Opinion: Edinburgh Comedy Awards: The Aftermath

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. 

News: Edinburgh Comedy Awards – Exclusive Pictures

So that's Edinburgh done for another year. Here are some pictures from Saturday's Foster's Comedy Awards ceremony. I don't even remember taking most of them so I must have been having a good time. All pics © copyright Bruce Dessau/Beyondthejoke.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Opinion: Bridget Christie's Tabloid Past

I've just been listening to yet another "making feminism funny" interview with Bridget Christie, this time on Radio 4's Women's Hour. Christie seems to have been everywhere since she won the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award on Saturday. One place I haven't seen her richly-deserved success get much coverage, however, is in the Daily Mail, which in the past has indulged in a spot of Stewart Lee-bashing. In fact I've just searched online and I can't see anything there on Christie, apart from a tiny diary story, since her victory. 

Review: Edinburgh Golf Day

If there is one thing I like almost as much as comedy it is golf. Yes, that's right, golf. And I'm clearly not alone. I always tried to keep my obsession a secret because it felt more like the kind of thing associated with old squares such as Bruce Forsyth and Jimmy Tarbuck. But at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this month I discovered that golf is not just cool, but that it is played by some of the best young comedians on the Fringe.

TV Review: Bad Education, Series 2, BBC3

Well, let's get the gag in before everybody else. Typical. You wait ages for a sitcom set in a school and then three come along in quick succession. We've just had David Walliams camping it up big style in Big School, we are about to get Greg Davies getting us to call him Sir in C4's Man Down.

Preview: The Week Ahead Aug 26 - Sept 1

As the Edinburgh Fringe Festival finally finishes the sensible comics will be taking a well-earned break, but for some international acts there is no rest for the wickedly funny. Janeane Garofalo comes directly from Edinburgh to the Soho Theatre with her, well, judging from what I saw at the Assembly Rooms last Wednesday, to call it a show, would be stretching definitions a little.

Opinion: Edinburgh Comedy Awards Results – Right or Wrong?

So after all the huffing and puffing and heated discussion Bridget Christie won the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award this afternoon. There had been rumours that she might not accept the award but, apart from calling special guest Steve Coogan a "prick" for dumping his girlfriend, she was on her best behaviour.

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