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 18th, 2014

AN OCCASIONAL COLUMN IN WHICH WE RENDER A CHORTLE REVIEW READABLE, OUT OF KINDNESS AND CHRISTIAN CHARITY At the beginning of the Fringe, Chortle editor Steve Bennett was kind enough to draw our attention to one of our reviewer-reviews. It had been written without due care and attention, such that the reviewer under review appeared […]

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Chortle Choonup

August 16th, 2014

INSISTING THAT A SHOW ‘MUST MEAN SOMETHING’ In 1991, when Frank Skinner won the Perrier Award, it was with a show that had no overarching point. It didn’t have a theme, it didn’t have a purpose and it didn’t attempt to address inequalities or shift the basis of society. He beat Eddie Izzard, whose show […]

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Crap Things Reviewers Do… #2

August 14th, 2018

Just two years ago, New Town was a brilliant, bustling Fringe hub. But thanks to vested interests and Council lunacy it’s becoming the town that fun forgot.

Derwent Cyzinski