The Fringe starts today and Edinburgh begins to burst at the seams with comedy and other entertainment, six of our eight shows have their very first previews today and we’ve already had some very lovely press!
The Skinny has interviewed Fiona O’Loughlin and her daughter Biddy, a lovely snippet is, “I really wish you wouldn’t say the word penis to your mother,”
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The Pleasance Courtyard has been home to EdCom’s ‘The Showcase Show’ for an incredible Eight Sell Out Years making it one of the staples on the Festival.
Offering a incredibly range of comedy, the Showcase Show doesn’t just bring you the hottest names in stand-up, we also hand-pick musical, sketch and new acts to really show off what The Fringe has to offer.
We try to mix it up with an eclectic and original line up everyday that not only is fantastically funny but maybe offers something you wouldn’t normally pick to see.
Our line-up already includes such fantastic familiar comedy faces as,
Already picked by The Times and The Guardian as shows to see in 2011, Ian D. Montfort’s second Edinburgh Fringe Festival offering, ‘Spirit Comedium‘ is looking to be a huge hit.
Last year Tom did a lunchtime experiment in cold reading and mind magic, developing a character that became a critically acclaimed, sell-out smash. It came as a total surprise for Tom Binns and was one of the few things he wasn’t able to predict with his newly learned Spirit Medium skills.
Tom has already proven himself to be a masterful character comic as the man behind every one’s favourite hospital radio DJ Ivan Brackenbury.
“I was blown away. It wasn’t really a complete or finished show it was a dry run for this year. I was too wrapped up in learning and performing the skills of a mind magician to give the comedy the attention I would have liked. I’ve been performing Ian D for a year now and talking to the dead has become second nature to me so that frees me up nicely to think more about the character and jokes – I prefer it when I’m focused on the comedy rather than the magic”
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The Fringe starts today and Edinburgh begins to burst at the seams with comedy and other entertainment, six of our eight shows have their very first previews today and we’ve already had some very lovely press!
EdCom Productions 