Why the Edinburgh Fringe is like a game of golf
It’s a funny business having a début show at Edinburgh. Or at least you hope it’s a funny business, otherwise what is going on with your show? (Ha ha, let me just pick myself up off the floor.) No, it is a strange thing because hardly anyone really has a proper début show which can […]
Natter round The Pool
No, this isn’t a daft new name for Liverpool. It turns out that ‘The Pool’ is a new website for women, launched this week by Lauren Laverne. It’ll include video, interviews and sound clips, blogs and a whole bunch of lovely stuff. From the sounds of it, The Pool is going to be less edgy […]
Take a Pun-t on the Ladies
Next month (February 2015), comedy channel Dave is running a festival in Leicester. One of the events is a pun contest – the UK Pun Championship, no less. It’s attracting considerable attention already, but not for the groan-inducing puns favoured by the finalists. ‘Several dozen’ people entered, according to Viv Groskop in ‘the Guardian’, and […]
