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The Big Pitch: Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais: Fame!: Edinburgh Castle

Hi, I'm Robin Ince. You may remember me from such DVD extra bits as that one after Ricky Gervais' Politics (2004). Six years after we did a sh...

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Fringe Therapy: Andrew Lawrence

Andrew Lawrence - Social Leprosy for Beginners & Improvers: Pleasance Courtyard

Would you describe yourself as a happy person?AL: I think I would describe myself as having interludes of happiness wh...

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Interpol - Turn Out The Bright Lights

Interpol: Edinburgh Corn Exchange

Lesson number one: Never ask a member of Interpol if he thinks his band sounds like Joy Division. Finbar Bermingham learned that the hard way...

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The Big Pitch: The Bacchae

Bob and Bob are sitting in a darkened room.  For the last five years, Black and White Rainbow haven't been doing so well.  With attendances at a st...

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Fringe Therapy: Luke Wright

Luke Wright, Poet & Man: Pleasance Courtyard

Dr Fest Psychoanalyzes funny man and poet, Luke Wright

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Tony Lee

Tony Lee - XXX, Aggressive Comedy Hypnosis: E4 UdderBELLY's Pasture

The king of aggressive hypnosis places Miles Johnson under his spell

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Bardy on down!

Luke Wright's Poetry Party: Dr Roberts' Magic Bus

It seems clear that some of the most memorable comedy moments at this year's Fringe, and future festivals, will come from performance poets and not their traditional stand-up counterparts

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Fringe Therapy: Josie Long

Trying is Good: Pleasance Courtyard

Josie Long tells Dr Fest about her dreams...

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The Big Pitch: Tom Tom Club

Tom Tom Club: E4 UdderBELLY's Pasture

G'day mates, we're the crazy gang from Tom Tom Club, the urban beatboxing extravaganza straight outta the suburbs of Melbourne. Now you Pommie...

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Rick Shapiro – Of Xbox and Ass

Rick Shapiro: The Green Room

A frail figure who is, by his own admission, fighting an addiction to prescription downers so powerful they have him walking into walls

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Jimmy Carr

Jimmy Carr - Repeat Offender: Venue 150 @ EICC

Fest pitches Jimmy Carr some of the best TV ideas he's ever heard

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The Big Pitch: Asbo! The Musical

ASBO! The Musical: Venue 45

Fifty years ago it was blacks. Five years ago it was asylum seekers. Today, it’s the working-class youth who feels the heat of the Mi...

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Fighting Talk

The Tommy Sheridan Chat Show: Gilded Balloon Teviot

Miles Johnson goes four rounds with former Socialist leader turned chatshow champ, Tommy Sheridan

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Fringe Therapy: Little Howard

Little Howard And The Magic Pencil Of Life And Death: Assembly @ George Street

Little Howard, "the world's first and only six-year-old, animated standing-up comedian," talks to Dr Fest.

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How comedy can change your life

Francesca Martinez: In Deep: The Stand Comedy Club II

Francesca Martinez is a stand-up with cerebral palsy. She speaks to Tom Hackett about labels and the catharsis of comedy.

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Frankie Goes to Holyrood

Frankie Boyle - Morons, I Can Heal You: Assembly @ George Street

Frankie Boyle, star of BBC 2's Mock The Week, talks to Ben Judge about finding fame the hard way

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The Big Pitch: The Tail of Rampant Rabbit

The Tail of Rampant Rabbit: C soco

The formula is flawless, adhering as it does to the the following proof: wordplay is inherently sexy. Subsuming the disciplines of innuendo and double...

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Playing God - Alan Cumming

It may have taken nearly twenty years but Alan Cumming is back with a vengeance. He talks to Miles Johnson about sex, lies and The Bacchae, the most anticipated show of the festival so far

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Fringe Therapy: Tony Law

Tony Law 'Revenge of the Dog of Time': Gilded Balloon Teviot

So, tell me about your Fringe show.Tony Law: It is called Revenge of the Dog of Time. It's a bit o...

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Tim Crouch - Art Transplant

England: Traverse at The Fruitmarket Gallery

Bored of theatre? Had enough psychological realism to drown an episode of EastEnders? Dylan Reed speaks to Tim Crouch about his new play, 'England' – set to change the standard (again) and win you back for drama

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The Big Pitch: Jihad: The Musical

Jihad: The Musical: C

"Oh my gawd, isn't Jihad just sooo hot right now!?". Some folks, they say, have more money than sense. In the case of Jihad the Musical, a tuneful ex...

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Fringe Therapy: Stewart Lee

Stewart Lee - 41st Best Stand-Up Ever!: E4 UdderBELLY's Pasture

Stewart Lee spends some time on Dr Fest's Fringe Therapy couch

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Auto Auto

Auto Auto: Pleasance Courtyard

He's had death threats, multiple injuries and even trouble finding cars to smash, but, he tells Hannah Thomas, nothing can stand between Christian Von Richthofen and his music.

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Best of 2006: A.L. Kennedy - Q & A

"A five-hour orgasm is not nearly as good as you'd think" A.L. Kennedy speaks!

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Best of 2006: Mel Smith

"Oh how very smart, how very moral high ground, how very pleased with themselves they are"

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Best of 2006: Byrne-ing Issues

"I have to keep topping my finale each year. Last year we had planted dancers with a big hoo-ha of smoke and glitter"

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Best of 2006: Chanbara - A Lesson from the Masters

Yamato Chanbara - The Legend of the Sword: Pleasance Courtyard

According to Shimaguchi a fighter must train eight hours a day for at least six years to gain master samurai status...

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Best of 2006: Levelland

Rich Hall: Assembly @ George Street

"Maybe my funny days are over..." - Rich Hall

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Best of 2006: Bussman's Holiday

"Blunkett claimed to be offended by it and he definitely didn't see it. Whoops."

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Limmy - Game On

Limmy's Show: The Stand Comedy Club II

Flash freelancer and Glasgow comedy terrorist Limmy is storming it online, and he's back this year...

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Best of 2006: Bowling With The Hamiltons

Lunch with the Hamiltons: Second Helping!: Pleasance Dome

Where else would you take two people that have forced themselves to endure the company of Ant and Dec?

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