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Edinburgh Fringe podcasts

Edinburgh Festival Fringe podcasts

Shows at 2011 Edinburgh Festival available as podcasts

10 Aug 2011

Richard 'King of Edinburgh' Herring celebrates his 20th Edinburgh Fringe with RHEFP a daily podcast of comedy and chat. His guests include well-known names from Dan Antopolski to Andy Zaltzman as well as up-and-coming comedy…

Gutted. A Revenger’s Musical

Gutted. A Revenger’s Musical

Elaborate but strangely poorly thought-out revenge

(3 stars)15 Aug 2010

Orphaned Sorrow has finally married her parents’ murderer, step one in her elaborate but strangely poorly thought-out revenge. Early on her resolve fluctuates for the sake of making her redeemable, instead making her a ditherer: an even less sympathetic…

Danielle Ward - My Comedy Hero: Chris Morris

Danielle Ward - My Comedy Hero: Chris Morris

24 Jun 2010

My comedy hero is Chris Morris. Many people assume the only point of a comedian is to make people laugh, but an ambitious comic realises there is much more potential than that. Chris Morris is an artist rather than a tradesman, creating things rather…

Danielle Ward

Danielle Ward

Self-aware yet distinctive act

(3 stars)23 Aug 2009

Danielle Ward is not, it emerges quickly, your common or garden aide-mémoire comic, reheating pre-cooked observations and serving them on a Styrofoam plate of uninvested playing-at-caring. Her thematic inventiveness is evident from the first skit, a…

Five pound note

Edinburgh Festival comedy highlights for a fiver

15 Jul 2009

Ooh, a Fringe in a credit crunch. It’ll be interesting times for all this year, but if you get in quick you can catch some of the best acts in exchange for a mere fiver. We’ve selected fifty of the finest shows you can see for the price of a…

Danielle Ward

Danielle Ward

Pacy set that's both clever and funny

(4 stars)7 Aug 2008

'We haven't even flirted with the line yet' warns Danielle Ward as one joke gets a hesitant reaction. She isn't lying; the rest of Ward's material, all rapidly told, invokes death by decapitation, the sex drive of a Siamese twin and some depressing…

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