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Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s uncouth one-woman show is seen as the epitome of festival success. But 10 years on, we speak to three fringe performers battling to escape its long shadow

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After the pain of the Covid years, the festival has returned with a roar. It can make a new standup’s career – if they are willing to sleep in a nuclear bunker and expose their own trauma

The Chewing Gum star on returning to the stage, discovering a different side of herself on Taskmaster and why she likes to be called handsome

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The Beeb won’t make a penny from their highest-paid star’s football podcast with Alan Shearer and Micah Richards

An Edinburgh Fringe performer was shocked when only two people turned up to watch her show - and one of them was Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge is developing a Tomb Raider TV show for Amazon Prime Video, and there are plenty of reasons to be excited.

When the Edinburgh International Festival launched in 1947, it was inevitable that a fringe event would follow. Beginning with just eight companies of performers in five venues, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (known as “the Fringe”) is now the biggest arts festival in the world, and welcomes tens of thousands of…