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Check out our coverage of shows presented as part of the Free Festival…

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Three Shows About Life Experiences Three Shows About Neurodiversity Three Shows About Sons + Fathers

REVIEWS

An Irish Solution To An Irish Problem (Eddie Mullarkey) Elly Shaw And Elaine Fellows: This Girl Can't (Elly Shaw And Elaine Fellows / Free Festival) God Damn Fancy Man (James Nokise / Free Festival) Hummus: After Dark (George Belcher / Free Festival)

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Rachel E Thorn: Lovefool Three To See and Stream 17-23 Aug: Online Edfringe, Camden Fringe, More London Stuff, In Person Edinburgh stuff

REVIEWS

Leo Kearse: Cancel Culture (Leo Kearse) Tom Mayhew: From Rags to Slightly Newer Rags

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Robyn Perkins: Comedy For The Curious Three To See and Stream 11-17 Aug: Comedy, Theatre, Events, Non-Edfringe stuff, Support Festival People Three To See and Stream 25-31 Aug: Streaming Comedy Things, Other Streaming Things, Socially Distanced Live Things, On Demand Things Vladimir McTavish: Best In Fringe Comedy and Chat

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FEATURES

Daniel Muggleton: Pimpin' Ain't Easy (But I Reckon It's Easier For Straight, White Men?) Dave Chawner: Mental Eight Step Q&A: Robyn Perkins Eight Steps Q&A: Eric Lampaert Robin Morgan: What a Man, What a Man, What a Man, What a Mighty Good Man (Say It Again Now) Three To See 2019: Political Shows Three To See 2019: Storytellers

REVIEWS

99 (First World) Problems Feat Andy Quirk And Anna J (Free Festival) Amy Howerska: Serious Face (Amy Howerska) Chris McGlade: Forgiveness (McGlade) Matt McGuinness: We Are What We Overcome (Ingenious Fools / Furthest From The Sea) Nick Elleray: Big Nick Energy (Nick Elleray / Free Festival) Olaf Falafel: Knitting With Maracas (Olaf Falafel) Old Jewish Jokes (Ivor Dembina) Sketch Thieves (Purple Martian / Free Festival) Will Mars: Phoenix (Purple Martian / Free Festival)

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FEATURES

Egg: Richard Pictures Past ThreeWeeks Editors’ Award winners back at the Fringe Three To See 2018: Three 'dad stand-up' shows Three To See 2018: Three tenth celebrations Three To See on 9 Aug: John Robertson, Sofie Hagen, Wil Greenway

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FEATURES

Quick Quiz: Chris Martin Quick Quiz: Joey Page Sunil Patel: Titan Three To See 2017: Three bits of theatrical comedy Three To See 2017: Three helpings of musical comedy Three To See 2017: Three unusual musicals Three To See 2017: Three US imports Three To See on 7 Aug: Phil Wang, Rosie Wilby, John Robertson

REVIEWS

All My Friends Are Dead (Conor Drum) Amy Howerska: Goddess Unless Tired Or Hungry (Amy Howerska) Andy Stedman - Parental Guidance (Andy Stedman) Chris Martin: The One And Only Chris Martin (So Comedy) D'Arcehole (Jo D'Arcy) I Can Make You Tory (Leo Kearse) Paul McCaffrey: Suburban Legend (Paul McCaffrey / Off The Kerb Productions) We Are Still All C*nts (Ashley Haden)

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FEATURES

Jinx Yeo: Top five Asian comedians Martha McBrier: Back at the Fringe with stories to share Njambi McGrath: One-liners, big issues Photo Shoot: Njambi McGrath Stephen Greer: Your guide to Glasgow at the Fringe Three To See 2016: Top cabaret shows

REVIEWS

Aatif Nawaz: Aatificial Intelligence (Aatif Nawaz / Free Festival) Ahir Shah - Machines (Ahir Shah / Free Festival) Barbarians (Ben Van der Velde / Free Festival) Chris Davis: Chinchilla Coats (Chris Davis) Egg – Static (Egg) Eric Lampaert – Alien Of Extraordinary Ability Erich McElroy's (US) Electile Dysfunction (Erich McElroy) Jeu Jeu La Foille: Frontal Lobotomy (SJA) Jordan Brookes: The Making Of (Show And Tell) The Girl With The Hurricane Hands (And Other Short Tales of Woe), (Studiospace / Free Festival)

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FEATURES

Comedy awards flow at the Edinburgh Fringe Emma Hall: With 621 opinions, you have to choose Stand-up encourages performers to donate unused fringe food to charity Three To See 2015: Comedy Show Titles Worth Repeating Three To See on 26 Aug: Monkey Poet, Emma Hall, 1972

REVIEWS

Bortle 8 (Chris Davis) Chris Martin - This Show Has A Soundtrack (So Comedy by arrangement with Troika/Free Festival) Excuse Me, You're Sitting On My Penis Again (Lou Sanders) Hari Sriskantha - Like Breath On A Mirror (So Comedy) Joel Dommett - Conquer (Off The Kerb) Juliet Meyers - Through The Pigeonhole (Juliet Meyers) Leggoland (Colin Leggo / Free Festival) Liam Williams - Bonfire Night (The Invisible Dot) Papa CJ - Naked (Papa CJ/Laughing Horse Free Festival) Pussy (Tight Theatre / Free Festival) Sajeela Kershi - Shallow Halal (Invisible Women – Sajeela Kershi/Free Festival) Shut Your Cakehole (Quinn Patrick/Free Festival) The Double Life Of Malcolm Drinkwater (Patrick Monahan) Totes Inappropes! (Totes Inappropes Productions) We May Have To Choose (Emma Hall)

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Barry Ferns: Top ten Fringe publicity stunts Finalists announced for Amused Moose Laughter Awards Maddy Carrick: How to survive a day at the Fringe with the kids Nadia Brooks: Speaking about the words Reviews Feature: Reviewing the ****ing Fringe Three To See 2014: Referendum-themed comedy Three To See 2014: Sketch comedy Three To See 2014: ThreeWeeks approved comedy Tricity Vogue’s uke awards return on a bigger stage

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Ahir Shah - Texture (Ahir Shah) Anil Desai's Late Night At The Movies (Anil Desai / Free Festival) Banjo Man (Quina Chapman / Free Festival) Biff! Bash! Bosh! - Free (Topsy Turvy Productions) David Jesudason - Things My Dad Says (David Jesudason / Free Festival) Death Shall Have No Dominion (InterAct Wales) Drunk Lion (Chris Davis / Free Festival) Emily Snee Is Bifurious (Emily Snee / Free Festival) Feminism For Chaps (Andrew Watts) First Class (Aulos Productions and Relief Theatre / Free Festival) I'm Thinking Of Leaving Facebook (Lolly Jones) Japanese Samurai Don Quixote Challenging Giant English Windmills! (Hiroshi Shimizu / Free Festival) Jody Kamali - One Man Variety Show (Jody Kamali / Free Festival) Outrageous Courageous Highly Contagious - Israeli Style Improv (Lamabati) Pretending Things Are a C*ck (2hoots Productions / Free Festival) Spencer Brown (Spencer Brown) Strange Face – Adventures With A Lost Nick Drake Recording (Michael Burdett / Free Festival) Tea For Tabitha (Blanket Theatre / Free Festival) Testiculating (Waving Your Arms Talking B*ll*cks) (Eric Lampaert / Free Festival) The Comedian And His Future Wife (Ola / Free Festival) The Irrational Fears Of Rillettes (Harriet Kemsley / Free Festival) The Sons Of Pitches - Boiler Alert! (The Sons Pitches) Tom Goodliffe - Thug Liffe Free (Tom Goodliffe / Free Festival) Tricity Vogue - Songs For Swinging Ukuleles (Tricity Vogue / Free Festival) Werewolf Erotica She Wrote (Mathilda Gregory / Free Festival)

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FEATURES

Malcolm Hardee Award nominations announced More gongs: Malcolm Hardee, Herald and Stage awards presented Snap Of The Day 09: Everything That Happened In The 20th Century, Seen Through The Eyes Of A Liar Three To See 2013: Dark comedy Three To See 2013: Hairy comedy Three To See 2013: Marvellous men Three To See 2013: Musical comedy

REVIEWS

#LazyTitle (Chuckle Sandwich) 2 Irish Men Walk Into A Bar - In A Yurt (Robert Coyle and Gary Lynch) 53 Minutes About 52 Sheep (Pustelnik and Bispebjerg Comedy Corner) 6 Hats And An Irishman (Paddy McCullagh) 76 Million People And Me (Irresponsible Decorators Theatre Company / Free Festival) A A And A Free (Joe Bains / Russ Haynes / Mawaan Rizwan) A Brief History Of Beer (Wish Experience / Laughing Horse) A Cut In The Rates by Alan Ayckbourn and Grey Matter by JD Farr (HomewoodRose Theatre Company) A Danish Bagpipe Comedian (Claus Reiss) A-Z Of Backpacking – Free (Jody Kamali) Aaaaargh! It's The Monster Stand-Up Show (Masai Graham) Aaron Twitchen’s Princess Guide To Dating (Aaron Twitchen / Free Festival) Aberdeen Vs Glasgow Vs The World - Final Round - Free (Ginger Ale Comedy / Free Festival) Ahir Shah - Anatomy (Ahir Shah / Free Festival) Ain’t It Awkward (Harriet Dyer and Freddie Farrell) Alan Irwin - The Idiot Wind (Alan Irwin / Free Festival) Alistair Greaves and Si Beckwith - All Aboard for Funtime! (Alistair Greaves / Simon Beckwith) An Improvised Improv Show (Luc Valvona and guests) Anil Desai’s Another Night At The Movies (Anil Desai / Free Festival) Ant Dewson - Now That’s What I Call Musical Comedy (Antdewson.co.uk / Free Festival) Anti-Clever (Jake Bourke) Assemble - The Lovely Men: Free (Lovely Men / Free Festival) Atella The Pun (Leo Kearse and Darren Walsh / Free Festival) Austentatious (Milk Monitors / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Austerity Pleasures (Funny For No Money Presents…) Awkward Hawk (Paul Duncan McGarrity) BattleActs! Improvised Comedy (BattleActs!) Bench Bites (Jam Sponge Comedy / Free Festival) Bespoke Comedy For The Discerning Family (Foghorn Improv / Free Festival) Big Comedy Lunch (Barry Ferns) Big Spoon, Little Spoon (Jamie Oliphant and Cio Dav / Free Festival) Bizarre Guitar And Terse Verse (BIL & CYN) Blaggards (British Exist Theatre) Blues And Burlesque Speakeasy Show (Pete Saunders Blues and Burlesque Group) Bronston Jones - Life’s Short, I’m Not (Bronston Jones / Free Festival) Bruce Fummey – The Jacobites And Bonnie Prince Charlie (Bruce Fummey) Burton’s Last Call (Dotted Line Productions) Calm And Collected (Making Faces) Captain Gingerbeard (David Burke) Cecilia Delatori - Quick, Quick, Slough! (Cecilia Delatori) CeilidhKids At The Fringe (CeilidhKids) Chaos And Order – A True Story (Naomi Hefter) Charlie Smith - Too Tall For The Ride (Charlie Smith / Free Festival) Cheesed Off (Blanket Theatre / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Chris Henry Isn’t Musical! (Chris Henry) Collier And Cox - Single, No Return (Collier And Cox / Free Festival) Comedy & Cupcakes (Laura Hayden) Cookstown Sizzling Comedy Club Presents The Irishtocrats Of Comedy (Cookstown Sizzling Comedy Club) Daly’s Comedy Club (Daly’s Comedy Club / Free Festival) Damn Danes (Bispebjerg Comedy Corner) Dan Willis - The Walking Dead (Dan Willis) Danny Ward - Pressure Point (EdCom / Free Festival) Darius Davies’ HBÖ Special (Darius Davies) Darren Maskell - A Woodlouse Trapped Underneath A Glass (Darren Maskell) Death Ship 666 (Death Ship 666 / Free Festival) Demitris Deech Isn’t Sick (Demitris Deech) Desperately Seeking The Exit (Free Festival / Peter Michael Marino) DillyDolly (Cheekykita / Free Festival) Do A Show (Hayley Ellis and Brennan Reece) Dusty Limits - Psycho (Dusty Limits / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Ellievision (Ellie Taylor / Free Festival) Employees Of The Month - Glenn Moore And Friends (Glenn Moore) Everything That Happened In The 20th Century, Seen Through The Eyes Of A Liar (Laughing Horse Free Festival / Ten In A Bed / Mike Shephard) First World Problems (Elena Kombou and Simon Caine / Free Festival) Flamboyant - Like a Flame, But Buoyant (Claire Healy / Free Festival) Flipper Committed Suicide (Giada Garofalo / Free Festival) For The Love Of Folk! (Raymond Considine) Free - 99 Club Stand-Up Selection (99 Club / Free Festival) Free Money Magic Show (Ian Saville / Free Festival) Frimston And Rowett - A Sketch Show (Frimston and Rowett) Full Of It - True Or False Game Show - The Two Fat F*cks On Holiday Tour 2013 (Jamie McCarney & David Tulk / Free Festival) Funeral Addict (Christian Talbot / Free Festival) Funny Bones And Wisdom Teeth (Dr Ray Lowry / Free Festival) Gary Lynch – Dark Charisma (Gary Lynch) Gay Straight Alliance (Veronica Elizabeth) Griff Rees Jokes (Griffith and Rees / Free Festival) Gusset Grippers (Gusset Grippers / Free Festival) Heavy Petting (Free Festival) Hilarity Bites Comedy Club Showcase (Hilarity Bites / Free Festival) How To Be Awesome At Everything (WMD Comedy) In Bits (Steve Bennett / Free Festival) In Cahoots (Paul G Raymond And Luke Manning / Free Festival) JAM Comedy (Joe Foster / Adam Race / Mike Cox / Free Festival) Jem Brookes - Puntitled (Jem Brookes / Free Festival) Jen Carnovale - Not A Person Person (Jen’s Food Money) Joby Mageean - Condiment Soup (Chambers Presents) Jody Kamali - Livewire - Free (Jody Kamali) Joe Munrow - Jazz Monkey (Joe Munrow/Free Festival) Josh Ross And Sunil Patel (Josh Ross And Sunil Patel / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Joz Norris Has Gone Missing Katerina Vrana - Feta With The Queen (Katerina Vrana / Free Festival) Killing Miss D (Daphna "MissD" Baram) Knight Of The Box Near The Station (Dan Cardwell / Free Festival) Late Night Laughs At Lunch – Free (Lunch Late Laughing) Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection (Laughing Horse Free Festival) Laughing Horse Free Pick Of The Fringe (Laughing Horse Free Festival) Lenny Peters - Lost In Nonsense (Lenny Peters) Liberty Hodes – But It’s My Birthday! (Laughing Horse Free Festival) Life Winner (Danny Deegan / Free Festival) Live Bait (LetLuce) LOLympics Live (Bronston Jones And Int'l Guests / Free Festival) Lucy Frederick - In Pursuit Of Cool (Lucy Frederick / Free Festival) M.P.H. - A Comedy Compendium (Lindsay Gonzales / Free Festival) MI4 Espionage – Free (Joe Bains / Ola Aralepo / Diane Fitton / Obonjo) Michael Fabbri - Buffering (Michael Fabbri / Free Festival) Multi-Levelled Morons – Free (Tim Wilderspin And Ste Price / Free Festival) Nathan Cassidy - Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner (Rat Pack Productions Ltd / Free Festival) Neurovision (Eccentronic / Free Festival) Nick Bowling Laughs In The Face Of Death For 45 Minutes And Then Asks Him Politely To Leave (Nick Bowling / Free Festival) Old Jewish Jokes (Ivor Dembina / Free Festival) Our Father (Blod Jones and Kirsty Marsh / Free Festival) Over It – Death, Anorexia, And Other Funny Things (Dave Chawner and Robyn Perkins) Paco Erhard - Djerman Unchained (Free Festival) Pam Ford – Happy In Your Skin? (Pam Ford Comedian / Free Festival) PC, Mac And Me - The Funny Side Of Computers (Dan Willis) Pete Otway and Kiri Pritchard-Mclean (Pete Otway and Kiri Pritchard-McLean / Free Festival) Phillip And Marjorie's Marriage Preparation Course For Regular People And The Gays (Free Fringe) Phone Whore - A One Act Play With Frequent Interruptions (Cameryn Moore / Free Fringe) Planet Of The Japes (Christopher Hammond / Free Festival) PowerCouple - Stand-up Comedy From Stephen Bailey And Gary John Senior (Stephen Bailey and Gary John Senior / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Princess Savage (Sam Savage / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Puzzled (Free Festival) Rachel Parris - The Commission (Rachel Parris / Free Festival) Remember That I Love You (Gregory Akerman / Free Festival) Revill's Selection - Free (Paul Revill / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Rhys James Prepares (Rhys James / Free Festival) Rick Kiesewetter - Chink (Rick Kiesewetter / Free Festival) Rik N Mix (Free Festival) Rob Collins - Jesus Christ Flew Into The Cuckoo's Nest Sean McLoughlin - Backbone (Sean McLoughlin / Free Festival) Sion James And Friends – Free! (Sion James Comedy) Smells Like Shit … Tastes Like Chicken (Matthew Finlayson) Snooze (Chimaera Theatre / Free Festival) Songs For Cynics (Roulston & Young / Festival Highlights) Stand Up, Woman (Drunken Sailor / Free Festival) Stella Graham – A Pint Of Stella (Stella Graham / Free Festival) Steve Bugeja Tries Hard (Steve Bugeja / Free Festival) Subject To Requirement (Cornelius Theatre Company, Makeshift Wings) Sucker Punch (Paddy Lennox / Free Festival) Surname And Surname (Ditto Productions / Free Festival) Sword And I (Bruce Fauveau / Free Festival) Sy+ (Free Festival) Sympathy For Revill (Purchase And Revill / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Talking To Strangers On Buses (Christiane O'Mahony and Alison Spittle) The Bravery Test (Laughing Horse / Angus Dunican) The Edinburgh Revue - Stand-Up Show (The Edinburgh Revue) The Hawke Papers (Produced Moon) The Hill And Weedon Fan Club (Hill And Weedon) The Human Centrepiece (SweetAS) The Human Condition Free Show (Cameron Davis / Free Festival) The Jocks And Geordies (Dan Willis & Obie) The Lost Letters Of Cathy G (Paul Harry Allen / Free Festival) The Lunchtime Ferret (Lunchtime Ferret / Free Festival) The Very Scariesome Lollipop Lady (Martha McBrier / Free Festival) The Wireless Podcast – Free (Racing Minds) Three Men And A Saucepan - Free (Ian Miller, David Jesudason, Ben Shannon / Laughing Horse) Tony Dunn Against The Psychopaths (Tony Dunn and Patch Hyde) Tricity Vogue - Calamitous Liaisons - Free (Tricity Vogue / Free Festival) Tricity Vogue's Ukulele Cabaret (Tricity Vogue / Free Festival) Tristan Garrel Cambridge (Tristan Garrel Cambridge) Two Tickets To The Gum Show (Eric Lampaert / Free Festival) Twonkeys Blue Cadabra (Free Festival / Paul Vickers presents) Tyke Rider - A Yorkshire Lass's Driving Adventure From The City Of Angels To Graceland Via The Big Easy (Nadia Brooks / Free Festival) Unmanageable (Kim Hope and Larry Dean are:) Vampire Hospital Waiting Room (Beach Comet Theatricals) Wagapaga (Free Festival) Waves (Alice Mary Cooper) Wild About Wilde (Thrice Three Muses / Free Festival) Will Mars - Americana (Free Festival) Xaablargh The Conqueror's Guide To Humons (No Fixed Abode / Free Festival) Zigzag Zit-faced Zombies And The Giant Geriatric Generator (Stuart Reid – Award-Winning Author)

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FEATURES

Bob Slayer on what makes his Fringe alternative Fringe ticket sales down just 1% overall, according to Society estimates - theatre venues and free shows report good year Jane Bom-Bane: High hats and harmoniums Malcolm Hardee Awards presented Peter Michael Marino: Desperately seeking Peter Three To See 2012: Comedy Dans Three To See 2012: Really tall comic acts Three To See 2012: Shows for the whole family Todd En Bratt: Quick Quiz Tricity Vogue: Ukulele chat

REVIEWS

3 Days Off Jesus (Laughing Horse Free Festival) 5-Steps To Being German 2.0 - Free (Paco Erhard / Free Festival) A Brief History Of Timelessness (Matt Welcome / Free Festival) A Good Catholic Boy (Massimo) A Taste O’ Scotland (Tackety Boot) A Theory Of Everything (Danny McChrystal / Free Festival) AAA Batteries (Not Included) (Chris Turner / David Elms / Adam Hess) Aaaaaaaaargh! It’s The Monster Stand-Up Show- Free (Monster Comedy) Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised (Racing Minds) Aaaand Now For Something Completely Wireless - Free (Racing Minds / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Aberdeen vs Glasgow vs The World II - Free (FGC Comedy / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Abigoliah Schamaun - Girl Going To Hell Absolutely Agitated Acupuncturist Returns To Find It (Diamond Wave) Adam Larter - Happy New Year - A Free Comedy Show (Adam Larter / Laughing Horse Free Festival) All About The Craic (Close To The Bone Comedy Club) All Star Stand-Up Showcase - Free (Punch Comedy) All Turn! (Doorstep Theatre / Emily Summers / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Always Be Comedy (James Gill, Ben Morgan) An Austrian And Someone From Slough (Cecilia Delatori and Alice Frick) Andy And The Prostitutes - The Musical (Andy And The Prostitutes) Angela Barnes And Matt Richardson Angels In Heels (Last Night’s Eyeliner) Arguments And Nosebleeds - Free Attempts On Her Life - Free (UWE Drama Society / Free Festival) Austentatious - An Improvised Jane Austen Novel (Milk Monitors / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Austerity Pleasures (Alex Chapman, Ben Morgan) Bad Advice - Free (Lauren Shearing and Sarah Pearce) Beast Of The East - Free Comedy Showcase (UEA Headlights Comedy Society / Free Festival) Because I Felt Like It (Arnie Pie / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Best Of Waterloo Comedy Club (Waterloo Comedy Club) Billy Watson - Sex, Drugs And Marriage Black Country Cider Lions - Free (Leon Clifford, Rob Jackson And Rob Kemp / Free Festival) Bless You In Advance (Three Stand Ups And A Sit Down) Blues And Burlesque (B ‘n’ B Group / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Bogan Bingo (Bogan Bingo) Carnival Of Crows (Little Friday Theatre) Cheap Laughs (Are Better Than No Laughs) (Eric Gudmunsen) Cheese-Badger Presents... Midge (A Two-Man Musical) (Cheese-Badger / Free Festival) Chris Henry - We Need to Talk! Comedy Brass (Adams & Neagle / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Comedy Sandwich (McKee & Tuck) Constant Craving - Free (Sarah Archer / Free Festival) Control Alt Delete - The Funny Side Of Computers (Dan Willis) Cracking Yolks - Free Range Comedy (Jo Ogden / Nena Edwards / Ruth Bruce / Free Festival) Cucu-rucu-cu In The French Alps (Marie Connolly) Dating George Orwell - Free (Kelly Jones / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Derek Ryan - Time Lord - Free Desperately Seeking The Exit (Peter Michael Marino) Dirty Thirties (Lady Melville And Rosie Rebel) Dissecting Comedy (Mags Woodward and Adam Russell / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Do Not Trust The Animals (Paddy Magee / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Do You Still Throw Spears At Each Other? - Free (Dotted Line Productions) Eccentronic Presents - We Won’t Rock You - Free (Eccentronic) Eggball
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) Eric Hutton - Every Other Show In The Fringe Sucks Fark (Madeleine Culp / Free Festival) Ferris Bueller’s Way Of… (Dan Willis) Forget Therapy - Just Drink (Pauline Curtin) Frenemies (Daphna Baram and Peyvand Khorsandi) Funny's Funny - Fantastic Fringe Finale - Free (Funny's Funny) Giacinto Palmieri-Pagliaccio (Giacinto Palmieri / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Giant Talking Cat - Free Festival (Chris Johnstone) Girl Band - Improv Helsinki (Under Dogs) Him And Me - Sketch Circus - Free (Him And Me) Hurt And Anderson - Scenes Of A Vignette-ish Nature - Free (Hurt And Anderson / Laughing Horse Free Festival) I Am Google (Craig Ricci Shaynak / Kingswell Productions) Ian Fox - Shutter Monkey (Laughing Horse Free Fringe) In Vino Veritas (Robert Inston) Inspired - Life 101 (Dan Willis) Introducing Stu Introducing Will - Free (Stitches Comedy – Will Ainsworth and Stuart Hossack) It’s Not Us, It’s You - Free (Laughing Horse Free Festival) Ivo Graham And Liam Williams (Laughing Horse Free Festival) Jackson Voorhaar’s One True Love(s) (Jackson Voorhaar / Free Festival) James Redmond And Ellie Taylor – Free Festival (James Redmond And Ellie Taylor) Jane Bom-Bane (Jane Bom-Bane / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Jem Brookes - Thumbs Up - Free (Jem Brookes / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Jennifer Carnovale - Scraping The Barrel (Jen's Food Money) Jerry Bucham - Freelance Activist (Rob Gilroy) Jody Kamali - Dirty Filthy Rich (Jody Kamali / Free Festival) John McNamara Acoustic Soul / Blues Singer - Free (John McNamara / Free Festival) Karma Comedian (Stella Graham) Kemsley And Callaghan - Keeping Their Cool (Harriet Kemsley and Sarah Callaghan) Kevin Dewsbury - In...Sane (Kevin Dewsbury / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Kevin Shepherd - Thus Spoke Kev - Free (Kevin Shepherd / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Kunt’s On Daytime TV (Kunt And The Gang) Ladies And Gentlemen (Ladies And Gentlemen / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Ladystache Laughing Horse Free Pick Of The Fringe (Laughing Horse Free Festival) Lewis Schaffer - No YOU Shut Up! Life Or Something Like It - Free (Alex Keelan And Claire Mooney) LOLympics Live (Laughing Horse Free Festival) Lucy Cox - Attractive Audience Required (Lucy Cox / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Luke Milford - Things I Like (Laughing Horse Free Festival) Made For Each Other (Good Works Productions) Making Life Taste Funnier (Graham Oakes and Sean Turner / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Men Of Character (Confused Moose / Free Festival) Mike Sheer In Undergod - Free (Mike Sheer) Mr Susan's 'Cheeky Flippin' Nice' - Free (Mark Davison / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Nick Hayman - Middle Aged, Useless And Talented Now.Here (Drawn To Stars) Nutters Of The British Isles - The Complete Field Guide – Free (Royal Society For The Promotion Of Nutters / Free Festival) One In A Million (Morven Smith / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Pandora’s Box - Free (Joanne Jollie, Class Stage Productions, Free Festival) Panning For Gold - Free (Thrice Three Muses / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Parris And Dowler Know What They’re Doing (Parris And Dowler) Patterson And Ranganathan (Patternathan) Paul T Eyres - T Eyres Of A Clown (Paul T Eyres / Free Festival) Phil Buckley - Simple Things - Free (Grin & Bear/Free Festival) Phil Mann’s Full Mind (Phil Mann) Phil Walker - Is This It? (Phil Walker / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Poe's Last Night (David Crawford / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Povs And Hefter Uncensored (Catherine Povinelli And Naomi Hefter) Radiohead Redux 2012 (Dan Willis) Revill’s Selection (Paul Revill / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Rob Deb - The Dork Knight Triumphant (Robin Deb / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Roland Rides The Rail’s (Again) - Free (Gregarious Productions / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Ryan Withers - One Woman Showe (Mrs Funberries / Free Festival) Spook Circus (Peter Campbell-Wells) Spring Day - Learn How To Take A Punch (Spring Day / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Stand Up, Woman - Free (Julia Munrow - Drunken Sailor On A MastFreeht) Stand-Up At The Jekyll & Hyde - Free (Laughing Horse Free Festival) Stay At Home Dad (Eden Rivers) Stephen Bailey And Zoe Iqbal - Subject To Change (Laughing Horse Free Festival) Stories From The Middle (Luke Capasso) Survivor - A Broad Irish Idiot (Jon Brennan) Sweethearts Of The 40s (Blitz Sisters / Free Festival) Tales From The Unaccepted (Ed Caruana, Elaine Mason, Gary Tro, Richard Todd and Sunil Patel) The Adult History Of Great Britain Part 1 - Free (Market Theatre Company / Laughing Horse Free Festival) The Bob Blackman Appreciation Society Presents - Free (Bob Blackman Appreciation Society / Laughing Horse Free Festival) The Expeditionary Force In The First Supper (Laughing Horse Free Festival / Ten In A Bed) The Good, The Bad And The Extraterrestrials (Young Actors Company) The Good, The Bad And The Irish! (Michael Porter/Free Festival) The Great Big Comedy Picnic - Free (Ian Fox in association with The Laughing Horse Free Festival) The Human Condition - Free (Cameron The Comedian Davis) The McLough-Hess Monster (Adam Hess And Sean McLoughlin) The One-Eyed Men's Friendship Formula (The One-Eyed Men) The SomeNews Live Show - Free (SomeNews / Free Festival) The Template For Lack Of Conversations (Alison Trower) The Template For Lack Of Conversations (Alison Trower) The Three Half Pints The Tourists Theatre Tasters – Free (Fronterias Thaetre Lab / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Thinking Of You (Knot Theory) This Time It's Personal (Dave Baucutt) Tibetan Book Of The Dead - The Musical (Laughing Horse Free Festival) Tim Roast’s Animals - Free (Tim Roast / Free Festival) Totally Wired! Reunion Farewell (Welfare) Tour - A Sperm's Tail And Other Tales - Free (Totally Wired! Totally Free!) Tricity Vogue’s Ukulele Cabaret (Laughing Horse Free Festival) Upstaging - A Modern Guide To Acting For Gentlemen and Gentleladies - Free (Ged & Jamie/ Laughing Horse Free Festival) Well Done You - Free (Trodd En Bratt / Laughing Horse Free Festival) What Would Beyonce Do? (Luisa Omielan) When Alice (Cooper) Met (Prince) Harry (Alice Mary Cooper) Who’s Dorian Gray? (Empty Photo Theatre) Winfamy (Tressillian) Would Like To Meet (Laughing Horse Free Festival) Wrong Place, Right Time (Léonie Higgins, Lowri Evans and Sophie Willan)

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FEATURES

Cock-gate seemingly divides Fringe comedy communty Malcolm Hardee Award organisers announce week of stuff for Fringe 2011 Three To See 2011: Cabaret shows for your MIND Three To See 2011: Comedic shows for kids Three To See 2011: Fringe oddities

REVIEWS

5-Step Guide To Being German – Free (Paco Erhard / Free Festival) A Brief History Of Time (Michelangelo’s Heroes/Free Festival) A Girl, A Ghost And The Little Yellow Man (Douberful / Laughing Horse Free Festival) A Mixed Bag (Laughing Horse Free Festival) AAA Batteries (Not Included) (Liam Williams, Chris Turner, Adam Hess) Aaaaaaaaaaaaarghh! It's The Malcolm Hardee Comedy Punch-Up Debates – And They're Free! (John Fleming And The Laughing Horse Free Festival Present) Aaaaaaaaaaaaarghh! It's The Malcolm Hardee Spaghetti-Juggling Contest – Year One (John Fleming And The Laughing Horse Free Festival Presents) Aaaaaaaaargh! It’s The Monster Stand Up Show (Monster Comedy) Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised! Aberdeen Vs Glasgow Vs The World (FGC Comedy / Laughing Horse Free Festival) About Tam O'Shanter (Bruce Fummey) Absolutely Amazing Adventures Of The Singing Acupuncturist (Diamond Wave Productions/Laughing Horse Free Festival) ACME Stand-up (Alex Clissold-Jones, Chris Turner and Matt Richardson) Adam Larter - The Legend Of Bob Geldof (And Other Short Stories) - Free Comedy (Adam Larter) All Over Your Face (Rachel Anderson and Luisa Omielan) Amoeba To Zebra - Free (Being 747 / Laughing Horse Free Festival) An Austrian, An Italian And Someone From Slough (Cecilia Delatori, Giacinto Palmieri, Alice Frick) Anyone For A Witch Hunt? – Free (Stay Curious Productions / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Arguments And Nosebleeds - Free (Arguments And Nosebleeds) Around The World In 80 Men! - Free (Joanne Jollie) As Drawn On FaceTube - Free (Whyteleafe Comedy Club) Asian Provocateurs - Rule Britannia! – Free (Sajeela Kershi and Yasmeen Khan / Free Festival) Attention Deficit Let’s Go Ride Bikes! – Free (Ben Van Der Velde / Matt Richardson/Free Festival) Baker And Thompson - Never Made It To The RSC Barely Legal Corn - Free (Big Spoon Little Spoon / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Barry Fox - Poems, Pamphlets, Props And Pissing About (Barry Fox) Big Dave’s Gay-B-C Of Life – Free (Dave Wickenden / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Billy Kirkwood - Show Me Your Tattoo - Free (Billy Kirkwood) Black Shorts - Free (Mary's Sofa) Bloke (FE Productions / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Bob Slayer's Marmite Gameshow – Free (Dress Code Drunk And Naked / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Brave New Irish Showcase - Free (BraveNewIrish.com / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Brotherly Love (Real London Ensemble) Bruce Fummey - My Afro Celtic Angst (Bruce Fummey Free / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Car Crash Comedy (Sarah May Philo / Multiple Acts) Caroline Gilmour: Take A Look – Free (Caroline Gilmour / Free Festival) Cheese-Badger Presents...The Epic Of Hairy Dave - Free (Cheese-Badger / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Chronic (Luke Escombe Musician / MC / Pimp) Come Hell Or High Water This Sick World Will Know I Was Here (Gregory Akerman / Free Festival) ComedySportz At Laughing Horse Free Festival (ComedySportz UK) Counting Syllables (Ionian Productions) Cowboys And Indians: Black Man In The Whitehouse (Kingswell Productions / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Dan Willis: Inspired - Free! (Dan Willis) Dave Nelder And Vague Acquaintances - Free (Dave Nelder / Laughing Horse Free Festival) David Kelly Is Shameless – Free (David Kelly / Laughing Horse Free Festival) David Lee Nelson... Status Update (David Lee Nelson) Down And Out Comedy With Mike Belgrave Down To The Bone (Liam Mullone) Dr Ettrick-Hogg Presents Manly Stand-Ups (Dr Ettrick-Hogg and Wudwud / Laughing Horse Free Festival) EastEnd Cabaret - The Revolution Will Be Sexual (EastEnd Cabaret / Laughing Horse Comedy) Enjoy Yourself – It's Later Than You Think (Lenny Peters) Eric Gudmunsen Ryanair Lost My Baby (God Bless Them) (Eric Gudmunsen/ Laughing Horse Free Festival) Eric Hutton And Ben Ellwood - The Best Of The Sh*ttest – Free Eric Mutch: Schizophrene (Eric Mutch / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Fabulous Abs (Abigoliah Schamaun) Fire And The Rose (George Innes) Found Objects Present Live Low Budget Comedy Adventures – Free (Found Objects / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Fran Moulds – Curtains (Fran Moulds / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Frank Sanazi’s Comedy Blitzkrieg – Free (Frank Sanazi’s Comedy Blitzkrieg / Free Festival) Free Festival Presents – Casper (Casper) Free Jewish Comedy (Ivor Dembina / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Gags, Songs And Bombs – Free! (Chuckle Sandwich: Gary Tro, Kate Lucas And Tez Ilyas) Gangsters Of Laugh - Free (Rik Carranza, Gareth Waugh, Paul Cronin) Girl With The Guitar – Free (Alison Chabloz / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Give Me The Funnies! Golden Showers Of Love (Nick Sun And Dick Moon Deep Star Space Mining And Exploration Corps Ltd) Grim(m) Tales Of The Woods - Free (Louna Productions / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Hatty Ashdown: Nan-Child (Hatty Ashdown / Free Festival) Hiroshi Shimizu: From Japan With 'Rub' - Free (Hiroshi Shimizu / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Holden And Revill - The North South Divide - Free (Holden And Revill) Horse And Louis - Tom Trumpin'! - Free (Horse And Louis / Laughing Horse Free Festival) How Did I Get Here? (Laura Levites) How To Make Love For 72 Hours At A Time (Sex Guru Rico Suave) How To Make Love For 72 Hours At A Time – Free (Sex Guru Rico Suave / Free Festival) I Am The Dead (Animal Link Productions) Ian Fox Exposes Himself (Ian Fox) It's The End Of The World As We Know It - Free (Kooky Babooshka / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Ivor's Other Show (Ivor Dembina / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Jackson Voorhaar Can't Play Guitar - Free (Jackson Voorhaar / Laughing Horse Free Festival) James Loveridge... And Other Losers! (James Loveridge / Sam Hastings / Darius Davies / Luke Capasso) Jem Brookes - Pintification Free (Jem Brookes / Laughing Horse Free Festival) John Robertson: Dragon Punch! – Free (John Robertson) John Scott - Totally Made Up – Totally Free (Lee Martin for Gag Reflex Management) Just Havin' A Fiddle Shetland Fiddlers Killing Bill Gates - Free (Mechanical Tiger Productions) Künt And The Gang – Free (Künt And The Gang / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Laughing Horse Free Pick Of The Fringe (Laughing Horse Free Festival) Laughing Horse's Funny Fillies – Free (Laughing Horse Comedy and Sajeela Kershi In Association With www.funnyfemales.org.uk) Lewis Schaffer Is Free Until Famous In A Smaller Room At An Earlier Time (Lewis Schaffer) Lewis Schaffer Is Free Until Famous – 18th Year Lewis Schaffer Lorcan McGrath Is... Not In Love – Free (Lorcan McGrath / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Mad Science Free Dangerous Family Show (Out Of Kontrol Productions / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Making Faces: Introspectacles (Dan Curtis, Lizzie Kevan and Ed Mayhew) Making Life Taste Funny (Sean Turner And Graham Oakes / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Manos The Greek - The Tale Of An Immigrant – Free Martin Semple 'I Don't Do Jokes' (Martin Semple) Michael J Dolan – Dress To Depress (Lee Martin for Gag Reflex Management) MissImp In Action (MissImp) Movin’ On Up! With Politically Erect - Free (Politically Erect) Mugging Chickens Office Girls Go Crazy Lazy Lunch – Free (Office Girls Go Crazy / Free Festival) Oliver Meech Live Brain Surgery – Free (Oliver Meech / Laughing Horse Festival) One Threw Up In The Cuckoo's Nest – Free (One Of Theirs / Free Festival) Pearse James Presents Freesome Phil Mann's Full Mind And Michael Keane: Intelligent Shuffle - Free (Phil Mann and Michael Keane) Playtime – Free (Laughing Horse Free Festival / Awsum Brown O'Meara) Please Hold, You’re Being Transferred To A UK Based Asian Representative (Sadia Azmat / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Pockets Of Suspense (Relax, Eat And Breathe / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Punching Mice (Sameena Zehra) Rachael’s Cafe (Little Fly Theatre) Radiohead Redux (Dan Willis) Repent / Words (Goldsmiths Drama Society) Rik 'N Mix (Rik Carranza) Rita Trump And Julie Jones: Screw Loose Women – Free (Rita Trump And Julie Jones / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Roman Around - Free (Ryan Millar) Rrrantin’ Free At The Pear Tree (RRRANTS Collective / Free Festival) Schoolbooks In Wallpaper – Ian Perth (Irish Comedy Events And Laughing Horse Free Festival) Shakespeare's Monkeys (The Underdogs / Laughing Horse Free Festival) She's The Cultured One! (Rose Drew and Tanya Nightingale) Sheep Ahoy! (On Grassier Tides) (Phil The Shepherd / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Shmozle (Workshed Productions / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Sitting On A Cornflake - Free (Tobias Persson / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Smut – Free (Desiree Burch and Greg Walloch) SomeNews - The Free Topical News Show (Steve N Allen) Spaghetti Lolognaise - Free (Adam Tempest / Free Festival) Spring Day: Sushi Souffle – Free (Spring Day / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Stuff And Nonsense (Paul Harry Allen) Super Crazy Fun Fun (Laughing Horse Free Festival) Taking The Piff (Stream Of Piffle) The 'Agent, Stylist And PA Wanted' Show (Amrik Virk) The 90's In Half An Hour - Free (Marc Burrows / Laughing Horse Free Festival) The About Comedy Stand Up Comedy Course (Laughing Horse Comedy) The Dead! (The Young Actors Company) The Dipper - Free (Homewood Rose Theatre Company / Laughing Horse Free Festival) The Good, The Bad And The Cuddlier 'Ride Again' VI (Sion James And Jonny Williams/ Laughing Horse Free Festival) The Great Big Comedy Picnic (Ian Fox in association with The Free Festival) The Hamwehads (Kat's Whiskers) The Infinite Delusions Of Victor Pope - Free (Victor Pope) The Kingsley And I (Various Special Guests And MCs Daily) The Life And Times Of Albert Lymes – Free (Tin Shed Theatre Co / Laughing Horse Free Festival) The Magic Drawabout - Free (Lancelot Adam's Walkabout Troubadour Squad) The Malcolm Muggeridge Memorial Hour (Thomas Ogg and Bradley Cloche) The Man Who Was Nearly There – Free (Dan Cardwell / Free Festival) The Michael Farcical Show (Laughing Horse Free Festival / The Farcical Show) The Naked Busker: Seeing More Of Me (Spooky Kid Productions) The Quest For Human Happiness (Tim Hadfield / Laughing Horse Free Festival) The Return Of O'Farahan And Keith – Free (Jon Reed And Kevin Dawson/ Free Festival) The Seven Deadly Sings (Remastered) - Free (Ashley Frieze)d The Silky Pair - Jealous People – Free (Silky Pair / Laughing Horse Free Festival) The Social Anxiety Network (Dan Wright And Tony Jameson / Laughing Horse Free Festival) The Songs I’ll Never Sing – Free (Richard Rycroft / Laughing Horse Free Festival) The Tourists - A Free Festival Sketch Show (Tourists) They Came With Outer Script – Free (Asterisk Theatre) Those Bloody Teenagers – Free (Heatham House) Three Man Roast (Holland, Howells And McKee / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Tom Toal And Joe Wells: Rom-Coms And Revolutions (Tom Toal And Joe Wells) Tomorrow’s Stand-Up Today – Free (Wudwud And Luke Kondor/Laughing Horse Free Festival) Tony Bournemouth: Bournemouth's All Time Second Greatest Comedian Tricity Vogue's Ukulele Cabaret - Free (Tricity Vogue / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Up To The Eyeballs (Beyond Compare / Free Festival) Waiting For Bono (Miss Hypnotique and John Callaghan / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Writer’s Block - Free (Act One / Laughing Horse Free Festival) You Shoulda Been Here Last Week (Paul Dennis And Jo Ogden / Laughing Horse Free Festival) Ze Hoff Und Friends – Free (Lancelot Adams)

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FEATURES

Robert Inston: Two queens for the price of one

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