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Kiran Saggu: 10 jobs men hate when women have
Kiran Saggu is making her Edinburgh Fringe debut with her show Slacks. As a woman, she has a job and while that is frankly un-chic in this day and age, it is sometimes unavoidable. She’s compiled a list of the jobs you — a woman — should avoid if you want a man.
Bella Humphries: The Ultimate Playlist for Hormonal Girlies!
Bella Humphries is bringing her debut show Square Peg to Edinburgh Fringe. She’s noticed the month-long festival shares some similarities with the menstrual cycle and has a foolproof plan for dealing with it!
Amy Annette: Which mid-00s shoe are YOU?
Amy Annette is bringing her debut show, Thick Skin, to Edinburgh Fringe. But before you even think about seeing her show, you need to take this essential quiz.
Breaking news: Jin Hao Li finds Nessie
Jin Hao Li is making his Edinburgh Fringe debut. But before that, he’s on the hunt for Nessie and takes us along on his journey.
Abby Wambaugh: How to hypnotise your friends
Abby Wambaugh is debuting at Edinburgh Fringe with The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows. She gives us the tricks of the trade for getting your friends under control finally!
Stevie Martin: What REALLY goes on behind the scenes of a preview
Stevie Martin is bringing her show, clout, to Edinburgh Fringe. Here, she reveals what’s actually happening at a comedy show preview
2 Muslim 2 Furious: Aisha Amanduri and Hasan Al-Habib spill their innermost thoughts
Aisha Amanduri and Hasan Al-Habib are bringing their split-bill 2 Muslim 2 Furious to Edinburgh Fringe. Here, they reveal their innermost thoughts as they vaguely try to date each other.
Zoë Coombs Marr’s Guide to Gossip
Zoë Coombs Marr is bringing her show Every Single Thing In My Whole Entire Life to the Edinburgh Fringe. Here, she tells us why gossip is so important and how to do it properly!
Beer mats: Stuart Laws’ ode to the silent protectors
Stuart Laws is attempting to break the world record for number of beer mats flipped and caught in a minute. The current record stands at 74. Laws is going to hit 75. He has three attempts. Can he deliver? We asked him to tell us about the phenomenon of beer mat flipping and exactly what it means to him.
Rhiannon Shaw interviews the small French child who’s moved into her house
Rhiannon Shaw sits down to chat with Caroline [Surname Unknown], the French exchange student who never went home and now has a starring role in Rhiannon’s show Wedding Night. The results are riveting.
Schalk Bezuidenhout: Where to sleep in Edinburgh (when you have no accommodation)
It is only a matter of time before accommodation at Edinburgh Fringe becomes so unaffordable that a flat or room will be out of the question. Here is Schalk Bezuidenhout’s top 10 places to sleep for the month
Benjamin Alborough’s Interactive game for you, the Edinburgh Fringe Tsar
Benjamin Alborough, connoisseur of interactive comedy, has created this interactive roll-a-dice game for you, the reigning monarch of the Fringe, to decide how you will spend your day (and money).
Matt Hutchinson’s Fantasy Fringe: At home, fun and not entirely uphill
Matt Hutchinson has some wild dreams about Edinburgh Fringe being fun, affordable AND not exhausting? This may actually be the most unreasonable scenario yet…
Kathy Maniura: The Fantasy Fringe of 3 staple Fringe objects
If anyone has the clearest vision of the future Fringe, it’s the veterans who’ve been there, year in, year out. Kathy Maniura presents the Fantasy Fringe of 3 staple Fringe objects
John Tothill: The Crete Festival Fringe
John Tothill has uncontroversially been given £300m by the Fringe Society. Unrelated, he’s booked a holiday to Greece in the middle of August and decided to channel £300m into moving the Fringe to Greece.
10 changes to make Edinburgh Fringe Troll-friendly
You might not always see them but you’re never more than two metres away from a Troll. In a bid to make it more Troll friendly, the Edinburgh Fringe has implemented these changes.
‘6:30pm, tell Russell Howard he’s smelly’: Alex Franklin’s super chill Fringe
Alex Franklin is chill. Because they’re so chill, they’re going to have a perfect Fringe. Follow this schedule to the minute every single day for your very own entirely chill Fringe.
Lachlan Werner: 7 Hot Ghoul Boss Hexes from Brew The Witch
Lachlan and Brew the witch are making their debut together. As a witch, Brew just knows things, so she’s got a list of tips for being the ultimate Fringe ghoul boss
Lorna Rose Treen: My Talentless Nephew's Fringe Festival
Lorna Rose Treen is an extremely talented character comedian. Unfortunately the talent doesn’t run in the family, because Lorna’s nephew has none of it. But for some reason, he’s decided to hold his own Fringe at his parents’ house.
Elf & Duffy: What if everyone at Edinburgh Fringe mimed and gestured?
Elf and Duffy are bringing their show Heist to the Fringe. Duffy signs, Elf doesn’t. Elf speaks, Duffy doesn’t. In this piece, Duffy imagines what the Fringe would be like if everyone mimed.