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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!

August 7th, 2017

The Edinburgh Fringe is 70 years old this year. Veteran comedy critic BRUCE DESSAU remembers 3/7ths of it. At least, he remembers the really odd stuff. I’ve been visiting the Edinburgh Fringe Festival since 1963. In the early days there were six comedy shows in the programme, which was printed on vellum and hand-delivered to […]

Articles

What the Bruce?

July 20th, 2014

Fringepig caught up with Louis the Self-Destructive Bear, star of about a trillion free Fringe shows, at a café in Southeast London. We asked him how he feels about his many reviews. “EVERYTHING I’ve ever learned is from a reviewer. I don’t trust anyone’s opinion unless they put it in print for other people to […]

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Solitude is not an option

August 5th, 2016

It began with Russell Harty. He was probably introducing the acapella outfit Instant Sunshine. This was the first I saw of the Edinburgh Fringe. Just as BBC2 introduced me to The Young Ones, so it went on to introduce me to dreams of a fringe existence. In those times, comedy wasn’t just an entertainment, it […]

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