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Top of the props: Best use of objects in Edinburgh 2011 Fringe comedy

24 Aug 2011

Including a levitating dog, a liver and a bag of urine

The best items on the comedy conveyor belt. A levitating dog. Brave old Mr Piffles might have his own polo neck jumper, but for the purposes of this column, he’s a prop, right? In Piff the Magic Dragon’s super show, he floats above the very ground (with…

Arthur Smith - 'No reviewers in unless they can juggle kippers'

22 Aug 2010

We send comic and expert juggler Stuart Goldsmith to take him up on the offer

Arthur Smith is the funniest and most honest comic of his generation, and has no need for reviews or critics. He nobly decided to ban them from his performances in the Pleasance Courtyard but, in the spirit of charity and goodwill, let there be a single…