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

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Want some Fringe background? Here are some archive articles!

July 23rd, 2014

Bob Slayer’s Rather Smelly Badger recalls the night a naive young reviewer became a little wiser “Last year at the Fringe – I believe it was the opening week – I had dropped in on my owner’s Midnight Mayhem show because I was living in a cupboard upstairs and I didn’t like the look of […]

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Reviewing 101, with Professors Bob and Jägermeister

August 19th, 2016

You might think it’s a difficult life being a press critic. You have to wear a lanyard. You have to spend literally minutes typing up your reports every evening. You have to look at yourself in the mirror. But you may not know that the job also involves flying over Edinburgh on a magical toilet, […]

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Me and My Flying Toilet

August 24th, 2017

Where is that awful stench of not-proper comedy coming from? From a theatre near you, says NATHAN CASSIDY What links Daniel Kitson, Mark Thomas and Nathan Cassidy? That’s right, they’re all awful. They all used to be very good of course, but now they’re indisputably rubbish. It’s a well known fact that it takes about […]

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