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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.
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.
Beginning in 2011 in London, [1] the original cast members took the show to the Edinburgh Festival Free Fringe in the summer of 2012. Following their initial success, they began performing a monthly show in London, transferring to the West End in 2017, and have since performed on BBC Radio 4 , on tour, and at the Edinburgh Fringe.
It sums up Evans’s Fringe debut: self-assured, potent, shocking. Strategic Love Play – Roundabout @ Summerhall â â â â â A man walks into a bar.
He was among the first wave of comedians that arrived at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from TikTok. [1] Christie started performing comedy at age 6. [2] As a member of Generation Z, his humour often plays on generational resentment, [3] [4] and his first show "OK Zoomer" was a YouTube special. [5] He also plays off his privileged background. [1]
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.
The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards are presented to the comedy shows deemed to have been the best at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Established in 2023, awards are given to Best Show, Best Newcomer and a Panel Prize and are judged by a panel of judges [ 1 ] on a voluntary basis who see all eligible comedy shows. [ 2 ]
The festival began in 2000, with fifteen concerts in its first year. It was founded by Dave Corbett, after realising the lack of contemporary music taking place at the Edinburgh Festival. [5] Since 2000, T on the Fringe has played host to some of the most commercially successful artists as well as the best in alternative and emerging talent.