Fringepig

Saturday, May 4th, 2019Welcome to Fringepig

Hello dear people,

Well, we were halfway off the ground when we had to cancel.

Liam the editor has won an election in Devon, and now wants to spend more time with his parishioners, his kids, his stuffed toys and his catalogue of regrets.

We all had a hoot doing Fringepig – from its early days as a website to its three years as a fully-fledged magazine.

If anyone has bought an advert, a refund has been issued and should show up soon. We apologise for the change of plan.

Thanks to EVERYONE who made this fun.

The website will stay up for a bit but won’t update. It’ll just hang here like a frozen moment in time. And not the best moment, either. August 2018. Which was okay, but it was no July 1996 was it?

Meh.

A K Kipper, Publisher and stuffed elephant

The latestFRINGEPIG ARTICLES

GAGGING ACTS: Fringepig speaks to four comedians who speak up for free speech
REP-RESENTIN': For women comedians, the Fringe affords a refreshing break from having to represent 49.6 per cent of the population
IT'S GRIM UP NORTH: How vested interests and Council perfidy chased the fun out of New Town
If there’s a funnier boy-girl ex-crusty libertarian hedonist insurrectionist at this year’s Fringe, then… we haven’t heard
THE EDINBURGH COUNCIL JOKE PAGE: is as much fun as it sounds!
THE LEFT NEEDS TO REDISCOVER REASON... and here's why
OZ-FAILURE: Why has Australia's Fringe and Festival scene gone catastrophically wrong?
LUISA OMIELAN: She's back, she's pissed off and she's finding the funny despite a profound sense of loss

The latestCOMEDY REVIEWER REVIEWS

Paul Mitchell

Friday, August 24th, 2018 0 responses

Jane Beeston

Monday, August 20th, 2018 0 responses

Yasmin Hackett

Monday, August 20th, 2018 1 response

Ariane Branigan

Saturday, August 18th, 2018 0 responses

Click here for ALL COMEDY REVIEWER REVIEWS

Want some Fringe background? Here are some archive articles!

August 19th, 2014

So, Week Three. In Week Three, in a small room, you realise – or is it remember? – that people are horrible. Goethe once said: “Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.” But the truth is that any other involuntary reaction will show a man’s character just as well: You may […]

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Week 3: It’s Like Porn Burnout

August 25th, 2015

Psychologists tell us that having a meaningful job you enjoy is the best way to stave off dark thoughts, and seasoned Fringe reviewer Lewis Porteous has that in spades. Why, only this Fringe he referred to comedians en masse as “an oppressive, self-centred, sporadically amusing establishment”. So far this Fringe he has used the words […]

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Lewis Porteous: The Poem

August 7th, 2015

As you’ll know by now, this year Fringepig is presenting the Ham Fist Award for the review that gets the wrong end of the Fringe’s shittiest stick. We can’t WAIT to see who, this year, completely misunderstands what’s in front of them. But what about the reviewer bons mots that just make us roll our […]

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