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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe, the Fringe or the Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest performance arts festival, which in 2024 spanned 25 days, sold more than 2.6 million tickets and featured more than 51,446 scheduled performances of 3,746 different shows across 262 venues from 60 different countries.
Turner is an established presence at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, [9] [10] has performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, [11] and worked with Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas. [5] While a student, he made it to the finals of the BBC Radio New Comedy Awards in 2011. [7]
In 2009, she was an intern at Fest Magazine, a free magazine covering the Edinburgh Festival. One of her assignments there was to write an article about a comedy critic trying stand-up. [5] [6] Brady describes the experience as "the push I needed to realise it was what I wanted to do". [4] Her first professional gig was in May 2010. [4]
The Funniest Joke of the Fringe is an award presented each year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by the British television channel U&Dave. The award highlights the best single joke (typically a one-liner ) by a standup comedian and is voted on by members of the public from a shortlist selected by a panel of comedy critics.
The Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival is a programme of free entry events that takes place at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest arts festival, each August. It is organised by the comedy promoter Laughing Horse , although it includes shows of different genres.
In the 2010s, Campbell was part of the YouTube collective Skills in Time, with Australian comedians Greg Larsen and Henry Stone. [10] In 2017, he had a regular weekly segment on Triple J radio, featured in the web-series Dayne's World , and performed stand-up at Sydney comedy clubs. [ 11 ]
He presented his first hour-long comedy show at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe entitled How to Butcher your Loved Ones. It was nominated for the if.comeddie award (as it was known for that year only) for Best Newcomer. [citation needed] His 2007 Fringe show, Social Leprosy For Beginners & Improvers, was nominated for the main if.comedy ...
Underbelly is a live events producer and venue operator, known as one of the "Big Four" venue operators at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. [1] From its roots as a Fringe venue, the company has expanded to include a festival on London 's South Bank and seasonal events in Edinburgh and elsewhere.