The Edinburgh Fringe?

Question

Is anyone going to any acts during the Edinburgh Fringe if so which one's and which comedy one's do you suggest i go to

Answer 1

I've been several times. The popular regular acts who I have found funny include Danny Bhoy, Stephen K Amos, Jo Caulfield, Lucy Porter. I saw Frankie Boyle and Dara O'Brien for the first time last year and they were funny - don't know how regularly they appear.

The paper version of the Edinburgh Fringe Programme Guide is available now. The online version is available from 9th June.

Answer 2

There is a new breakaway festival separate from the Fringe. The Edinburgh Comedy Festival.

The new festival has been created by the promoters of the “big four” Fringe venues; Assembly, Gilded Balloon, Pleasance and Underbelly. Between them they already account for about 50 per cent of ticket sales on the Fringe, and are well established as the best-known comedy theatres in Edinburgh during August.

The Edinburgh Comedy Festival as a new brand will present more than 250 comedy shows at this year’s festival, playing to an estimated audience of around 550,000 people. The event, which organisers claim will be the largest comedy festival in the world, will have its own brochure, with a print run of 400,000 copies, although shows will still be listed as part of the wider Fringe programme.

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Answer 3

Just go with the flow.  Half the fun is to go to a small venue and watch a series of comedians go through their routine.

Answer 4

Dylan Moran is a regular performer. Highly recommended.

Answer 5

Its tough - there are an awful lot of acts at an awful lot of venues, covering all tastes and on all scales. It can be bewildering.

The breakaway group from the source on someone else's answer is very controversial - being the largest venues they account for the majority of seats, but a small minority of acts, so don't think it is an easy solution. In effect you now need two programmes, the official festival fringe and the self-styled 'festival comedy'.

Traditionally, though 'mainstream comedy' does tend to be found at these venues and I have been to them much more than others.

It all depends on your taste. Most people would not view these four as having any out and out 'rubbish', and in that sense they are a 'safe bet', but the other venues have a full spectrum of hilarious and  clever, to dull and very poor.

Read the fringe programme, search for the reviews online and listen for word of mouth. And ask again on Yahoo when they have already been running for a while!!

Enjoy your trip.