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Geraldine Hickey is having a strange gig.
The one time Melbourne Comedy Award winner has lost her voice and is reduced to talking in a whisper.
The Assembly venue known as the Box is so hot a woman almost faints in the second row.
And there’s an oddly timed walk out during Hickey’s whispered recap of the reality television show Say Yes to the Dress.
It’s one of those days.
Hickey’s show is the story of her wedding – which w
New York based comedian and actor, currently guest starring in Amazon Prime’s hit new series Daisy Jones & and The Six, makes his Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut. His show ‘Addicted’ will premiere at Just The Tonic Bottle Room.
You know the saying “curiosity killed the cat’? Well, what if instead of curiosity killing the cat, it got the cat addicted to heroin? And it lived! That’s Nick Pupo - a cat that was addicted to heroin.
Can you ever be as cool as your older brother? Not when he has a purple sparkly wheelchair and everyone’s attention. Set during the early 2000s in the crunchy-granola-meets-redneck-woods of western Massachusetts, Maggie Crane’s darkly funny show is an autobiographical account of growing up amidst disability, death, and Dunkin Donuts.
Introducing Taiwanese comedian Kuan-wen Huang who brings his debut hour ‘Ilha Formosa’ to the Gilded Balloon.
In his first ever stand-up hour, already nominated as one of the best shows at the Leicester Comedy Festival, Kuan-wen recounts how he traded in his beloved island of Taiwan for rainy Britain and what it means to be Taiwanese after generations of migration and shifting identities.
Ange Lavoipierre (pictured) brings her brand new show ‘Your Mother Chucks Rocks And Shells’ to the Edinburgh Fringe Underbelly - George Square Gardens. Already a critical success at the Adelaide Fringe, this marks the first time she has moved away from straight stand-up and, no longer concerned with or constricted by genre, presents THE show she has really always wanted to do.
The Edinburgh Comedy Awards’ long-standing Director Nica Burns is delighted to announce today that three amazing comedy partners -
Amused Moose Comedy Awards 2023 entries have opened for comedy shows at the Edinburgh Fringe.
The Awards focus on discovering 'unknown' comedy talent performing their shows on at least ten dates as listed in the comedy section of edfringe.com.
The Awards ethos is to ensure that every Fringe performer (who meets entry criteria including being based in UK/RoI) who wishes their comedy show to be included, can be sure that it will be seen by talent scouts.
The official 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme has been launched. The programme celebrates the diverse selection of work at the Fringe, spanning the genres of theatre, dance, circus, physical theatre, comedy, music, musicals, opera, cabaret, variety, children’s shows, spoken word, exhibitions and events. the Fringe runs from August 2 - 28. Buy tickets here.
Comedians and comedy fans alike have expressed their shock and outrage at the news that there will be no official Fringe app this year.
The app has been an increasingly popular way that visitors to Edinburgh have planned their Festival Fringe Festival. One of the most useful features is the comedy "nearby now" function enabling fans to choose shows at the last minute that are close to them.
After two years away, Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Awards are returning to the Fringe – and you can be on the panel and help to judge Edinburgh's most prestigious comedy competition and find the most outstanding original comedy act and the best newcomer comedy act.
Do you want to go to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for free?
Think you could handle more than 100 hours of comedy in two weeks?
Then you may have what it takes to be an Edinburgh Comedy Award Panellist.
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