You reap what you sow? Perrier Judges are breaking ranks to let the world know that this years eligible candidates are all, well, crap. There’s a surprise. How do you expect to find innovate talent and new blood when this new blood would need to be prepared to loose close to £4,000 to put on [...]

Bruce Dessau goes from Demetri Martin, to Natalie Haynes, to Tim Vine, then Joanna Neary, finishing at a forthcoming documentary on Taxidermy called Stuff The World, which goes out on BBC2 this Wednesday. Bruce is probably doing a bit too much I think…

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The Cafe Royal has had the best idea of the Fringe Comedy Circuit so far - drunk stand ups. The premise is simple, it’s another “X Comedians onm the bill for a tenner” style show, but they only get to go on stage if they have had a few too many to drink. Absolute brilliance. [...]

12,000 tickets sold and counting makes Omid Djalili the top ticket seller so far at this years Fringe(reports The Scotsman). Given that he’s also got the biggest poster budget, and the largest poster in Edinburgh, perhpas that’s not surprising. What I’d be more interested in seeing is how much net profit he makes, as opposed [...]

Says it all really… the Edinburgh Fringe Podcast is the 28th most popular podcast in Apple’s flagship iTunes Top 100 UK Podcasts list. So thank you to all of you who are listening to the podcast, the performers who are getting involved, and everyone giving me feedback. There’s still a week of the Fringe to [...]

More from londonder in Edinburgh Bruce Dessau, with his look both at Mark Watson’s endurance gig of 2005 minutes, and the judging of “So You Think You’re Funny’s” semi-final that he took part in. Read his blog post here.

Ten years ago, when I was a mere slip of a lad at Edinburgh University, I could slip ten pounds into my pocket, go out and see three or four fringe shows, buy a beer, and be back home before midnight. Those nights I would see one “banker” show and experiment with the other three.
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More from Bruce “Evening Standard Journalist in Edinburgh” Dessau. He’s talkign about hype today, about the promoters who are pushing the next big thing to get thos ever so vital column inches in the press that could make the difference between an act breaking even at the Fringe or loosing a truckload of money.

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Director of The Stand Tommy Sheppard is never one to pull his words. The Sunday Times just last weekend saw him take on another part of the Fringe where money and greed have devalued the experience:
Hey, what about this for a scam? Take an innocent young comedian who wants to put on a show at [...]

That’s right, over on the Official Fringe Site there’s a nice guide to where to find out about the best shows around the Fringe. They mention the usual susepcts, print media newspapers, local radio, the national media, but failt to remember about the Fringe Podcast. Yes I know that’s us, and if you’re reading [...]