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The best joke award has gone. Is the Edinburgh fringe taking all the pun out of comedy?

I will miss the lighthearted award, but often it overlooked the art of standup in favour of celebrating groan-inducing one-liners, says journalist Anya Ryan

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From Nosferatu to Patience: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment in the UK

The classic 1922 exsanguination enthusiast gets a creepy 2024 makeover, and there’s a new supercop in town in Channel 4’s crime drama

The Guardian - UK

No sets, less fuss, a cast of one: can standups save the UK’s cash-strapped theatres?

For the Royal Court and Park theatres, putting on comedy acts is a moneyspinning way to find new audiences. But are playhouses set to stage fewer plays?

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‘I wanted to be serious – but people would laugh so hard’: Julia Masli on her accidental comedy masterpiece

Her midnight agony aunt clown show became the hot ticket of the fringe – despite the fact that the Estonian never regarded herself as a comic. In fact, she says, she much prefers making audiences cry

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The best theatre, dance and comedy tickets to book in 2024

The new year’s hottest shows include stage versions of Minority Report, Spirited Away and La Strada, performances by Keeley Hawes and Ian McKellen – plus laughs from Julia Masli, Rhod Gilbert and Ania Magliano

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre, comedy and dance of 2023

Our critics’ highlights of the year include a 24-hour marathon, a standup welcoming hecklers, a reboot of The Matrix and a bus ride filled with emotion

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Ahir Shah arrived at Edinburgh with a work-in-progress but leaves as comedy champ

The Edinburgh comedy award-winning show Ends is a superb set about Shah’s grandfather, the standup’s imminent wedding and multicultural Britain

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Late-night clown-therapy act among nominees for Edinburgh comedy awards

Julia Masli, Ahir Shah and Janine Harouni are on the eight-strong shortlist for the coveted £10,000 prize at the festival

The Guardian - UK

Our latest Edinburgh Fringe reviews, from Julia Masli to Strategic Love Play

Isobel Lewis with a round-up of comedy and theatre as the Fringe enters its final stretch

The Independent UK

Edinburgh Comedy Awards: Kieran Hodgson, Ania Magliano and Emmanuel Sonubi among this year’s Fringe nominees

Nominations have been announced for Best Show and Best Newcomer

The Independent UK

Julia Masli: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha review – healing hilarity

A clown by trade, Masli here sets about tackling the audience’s problems. Her leftfield efforts to ease them are one of this fringe’s true tonics

The Guardian - UK

The Edinburgh fringe is back! But is it still the heart of the comedy scene?

After the pain of the Covid years, the festival has returned with a roar. It can make a new standup’s career – if they are willing to sleep in a nuclear bunker and expose their own trauma

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Full line-up for Physical Festival set to take over Liverpool

The international celebration takes place across a variety of venues

Liverpool Echo

Who wants a lockdown one-liner? How comics are covering Covid at Edinburgh fringe

The festival is in full swing with audiences crammed into comedy clubs. But is our global pandemic the elephant in the room?

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Clownts review – three maestros compete in a celebration of anarchic hilarity

Armed with cherry tomatoes, paper boats and a leaf-blower, Julia Masli, Viggo Venn and Sami Abu Wardeh brought the London clown festival to an uproarious close

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Edinburgh festival 2022: 50 shows to see

Phil Wang makes a heroic return, Ian McKellen stars in a balletic Hamlet and Sophie Duker is gleefully carefree. Here are our picks of the festival’s comedy, theatre and dance

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