Jul 21, 2019I TALK TO Steve Bugeja"I don't know what I'd do in August if I didn't go to the Fringe." Steve Bugeja has been taking a new hour of material to the Edinburgh...
Jul 21, 2019I TALK TO Rosa Hesmondhalgh"I want the audience to understand a version of a cancer narrative that they might not see a lot." In 2018, at just 23, recent LAMDA...
Jul 21, 2019I TALK TO Rob Auton"I don't want to write about temporary things. I want to write about things that are going to be around in ten years time." His 2018...
Jul 21, 2019I TALK TO Kieran Boyd"I'm looking forward to having a show that hopefully I can stand behind." He was one third of popular sketch trio WitTank together with...
Jul 21, 2019I TALK TO Eleanor Tiernan"The relationship that survived was the one of me and comedy and not the one of me and the guy." Comedian and writer Eleanor Tiernan is...
Jul 21, 2019I TALK TO Diane Chorley"We've got booths dedicated to all the classics like George Michael and Pauline Quirke." Cult icon Diane Chorley, returns to the...
Jul 20, 2019I TALK TO Stewart Francis"People are saying it's the best show they've ever seen, not just mine. And who am I to deny them of that belief?" Comedian/master of...
Jul 20, 2019I TALK TO Stephen Buchanan"There's a bit of jealousy in Glasgow about the fact that Edinburgh has the biggest arts festival in the world." In 2018, Glaswegian...
Jul 20, 2019I TALK TO Rich Wilson"Unless you've got any sort of heat behind you, you tend to get ignored by the industry in a free venue." Rich Wilson went from pulling...
Jul 20, 2019I TALK TO Lou Sanders"I wasn't allowed the title I really wanted which was The Face That Launched a Thousand Dicks." Comedian Lou Sanders sold out her run at...
Jul 20, 2019I TALK TO Jayde Adams"There's pressure as a woman in comedy to take yourself seriously and use your time on stage to make change in the world." Each year at...
Jul 20, 2019I TALK TO Dan Soder"Poor people tend to be the funniest people in the world which is for a reason, it's a self defence mechanism. New York-based comedian...
Jul 19, 2019I TALK TO Nick Helm"I'm looking forward to getting back into gigging every day." Last time we spoke, Nick Helm was about to celebrate 20 years at the...
Jul 19, 2019I TALK TO Naz Osmanoglu"You can actually be very serious in a Scandinavian accent and get a lot of humour out of it!" After a year away from the Edinburgh...
Jul 19, 2019I TALK TO Nathan Bryon"Benidorm has allowed me to have lots of great conversations about the sort of things I want to create." Best-known for playing Joey in...
Jul 19, 2019I TALK TO Janine Harouni"Stand-up is just a curation of all your funniest stories condensed into one hour." London-based, New York-born comedian and one third of...
Jul 19, 2019I TALK TO Christopher MacArthur-Boyd" I was obsessed with comedy when I was younger but I didn't know the Fringe was there." Described by many as "the future of Scottish...
Jul 19, 2019I TALK TO Anna Drezen"Edinburgh has been a dream of mine for ten years." Making her UK debut at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe is Anna Drezen, US comic...