With a cut-glass accent that reflects her precision-tooled comedy, Tania Edwards inflicts maximum damage with faint praise. We talk about her process, her practice and her peeves - and learn why you can’t have your cake and eat it too…

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Filed Under: 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Alcohol, Andrew Maxwell, Dr Brown, Edinburgh, Feminism, Festival Comedian, Holly Walsh, Interview, Jerry Sadowitz, Joan Rivers, Joe Wilkinson, Julian Deane, Katherine Ryan, Lenny Bruce, London, Louis CK, Luke Toulson, Mock The Week, Nathan Caton, Political Humour, Quality Control, Radio 4, Reviews, Rich Hall, Risk, Stage Persona, Stand Up For The Week, Stewart Lee, Storytelling, Structure, Success

Bird-flipping, bumhole-shouting Gein’s Family Giftshop are horror-obsessed, wildly inventive and deeply funny. We dig into the internal dynamics of the group, find out why they don’t wear wigs, and examine the crucial role played by their unseen fourth member.

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Filed Under: Chortle, Controversial, Dark Humour, David Lynch, Edinburgh, Fear, Feminism, Festival, Footlights, Fringe, Funz and Gamez, Horror, Improv, Inspiration, Interview, Isolation, League of Gentlemen, Physical Comedy, Podcasting, Provocateur, Puffin Island, Quality Control, Radio, Radio 4, Reviews, Risk, Simon Pegg, Sketch, Stage Persona, Steve Coogan, Structure, Success, The Mighty Boosh, Writing On Stage

With his own Radio Four series and a raft of Mock The Week appearances under his belt, Nathan Caton remains astonishingly down to earth and level-headed. We explore panel-show tactics, discuss using comedy to heal people close to you, and learn how he was dropped by a leading agent out of the blue.  He’s happy, well-balanced and kind - will Stu manage to crack the bastard?

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Filed Under: Andy Parsons, Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing, Carl Donnelly, Chris Addison, Criticism, Dara O'Briain, Ed Byrne, Ed Gamble, Eddie Murphy, Edinburgh, Festival Comedian, First Open Spot, Fringe, Hugh Dennis, Ian Stone, Inspiration, Interview, Joe Wilkinson, John Maloney, Lenny Henry, Live At The Apollo, London, Micky Flanagan, Mock The Week, Observational Comedy, Radio, Radio 4, Reviews, Sara Pascoe, Sarah Millican, So You Think You’re Funny, Stage Persona, Stewart Francis, Storytelling, Success, The Comedy Store, Writing On Stage

In at the beginning of alternative comedy, and now a “venerated lefty” and Columnist Of The Year 2015, punchy pundit Mark Steel has lost none of his passion. We discuss his BBC Radio 4 series which pokes fun at the British on a town-by-town basis, learn about the startling revelations of his personal history, and hear how he rubs shoulders with the enemy, backstage at “Question Time”… 

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Filed Under: Charlie Chaplin, Edinburgh, Festival, Frank Skinner, Frankie Boyle, Fringe, Greg Davies, Interview, Jimmy Carr, Live, London, Louis CK, Mark Thomas, Michael McIntyre, Political Comedy, Political Humour, Question Time, Radio, Radio 4, Reviews, Richard Pryor, Risk, Shappi Khorsandi, Stage Persona, Stewart Lee, Storytelling, Structure, Success, Touring Comedian, Twitter

Stand-up; songwriter; Peep Show’s “Dobby”; and under it all still “The girl who jumped off Matlock Bridge for a quid”, Isy Suttie applies a psychedelic imagination to her forensic grasp of life’s minutiae.  We explore the stubbornness that underpins her eccentricity, dissect the word “whimsical”, and accidentally vomit into a spiderweb.

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Filed Under: Amused Moose, Channel 4, Dan Atkinson, David Mitchell, Edinburgh, Fear, Festival, First Open Spot, Fringe, Glenn Wool, Guide to the Family, Interview, Isy Suttie's Love Letters, Joe Wilkinson, Laughing Horse, Live, London, Matt King, Musical Comedy, Pearl and Dave, Peep Show, Poetry, Radio, Radio 4, Robert Webb, So You Think You’re Funny, Stage Persona, Storytelling, Success, The Actual One, Tim Key, Toast of London

Sage-like producer of QI, Blackadder, Not The Nine O’Clock News and forty years’ worth of some of Britain’s finest comedy TV and radio, John Lloyd could be forgiven for resting on his considerable laurels. Instead he’s brought his third standup show to the fringe, and talks here about process, legacy and how he philosophised himself out of a deep depression…

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Filed Under: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Bill Bailey, Edinburgh, Family Guy, Fear, Festival, Interview, Jimmy Carr, Live, Mental Health, Not the Nine O'Clock News, Peter Cook, Political Humour, QI, Radio 4, Reviews, Spitting Image, Stephen Fry, Structure, Success, TV Comedy, Writing Jokes

One of those acts floating around at the very top of the circuit, completely ready to outgrow it, Zoe Lyons is an expert at wringing every drop of funny out of a subject. We talk about the tough school environment that forged her, as well as the legacy of resilience it invoked, and ask why she still feels like an impostor.

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Filed Under: Ben Elton, Bent Double, Edinburgh, Festival, Fringe, Interview, James Acaster, Jo Brand, Jo Caulfield, John Bishop, Katherine Ryan, Kerry Godliman, Radio 4, Robin Williams, Russ Peers, Russell Kane, Tallinn Comedy Festival, The John Bishop Show, The Stand, Touring Comedian

With a staggering sixteen year back-catalogue of weekly topical songs under his belt, musical comedian Mitch Benn is a firm fixture of “The Now Show” on Radio 4. We talk about circuit snobbery regarding “the cheating stick”, the joy of creating music as well as comedy, and the perils of being so good at what you do that people have a hard time imagining you as anything else…

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Filed Under: Bill Hicks, Charlie Brooker, Daniel Kitson, Eddie Izzard, Edinburgh, Festival, Fringe, Harry Hill, Harry Shearer, Hugh Dennis, Imran Yusuf, Interview, Jay Foreman, Jenny Eclair, Jess Robinson, John Maloney, Jon Holmes, Live, Marcus Brigstocke, Mark Thomas, Mock The Week, Musical Comedy, Nick Wilty, Parody, Radio 4, Ross Noble, Shlomo, Spinal Tap, Steve Punt, Tallinn Comedy Festival, The Alternative Comedy Experience, The Beatles, The Now Show