It’s the final episode of Live at the Pleasance for 2017. What a month it’s been! It’s all gone so fast! Can you believe it?! Etc. etc. This year we celebrated 70 years of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and 33 years of the Pleasance in real style. We’ve talked to everyone from the freshest newly-hatched comedy chicks and the most seasoned Fringe leg(hen)ds (…ok we’re all tired right?) This episode features some of the best bits of Live at the Pleasance - are you ready for an onslaught of names? You’re going to hear chat from Rhys James, Kae Kurd, Pierre Novellie, Rose Matafeo, Terry Alderton, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Ross & Josh, Alisdair Beckett-King and Catriona Knox and live comedy from Dane Baptiste, John Robins, Kwame Asante, Andy Field and Pippa Evans. Grab yourself a cup of sweet tea and a packet of Tunnock’s teacakes, sit back and marvel at all these funny genius minds at play. Oh and Al and Maddie are there too. See you in 2018! 

In this penultimate episode of Live at the Pleasance for 2017, we’re going to treat you to the stars of the Fringe, the telly, the radio and the future! Maddie chats to Ed Gamble about his new tattoo addiction, Al and debutant Josh Pugh say terribly rude things about Coventry and award-nominated Sophie Willan refuses to be a working class hero.  We get a one-off listen to Thom Tuck singing the Mountain Goats at Mark Watson’s festival of bad ideas, Angela Barnes performs at the gala for Mental Health and Gary Delaney is very rude indeed. 

In this episode we’ve got clips from three brilliant live shows courtesy of Phoebe Walsh, Simon Day and John Hastings as well as interviews with one third of Massive Dad, Tessa Coates, the comedian and poker player Ken Cheng, who has just won the Dave award for best joke and the 2011 Edinburgh Comedy award winner Adam Riches.  This episode also includes a special sneak preview of Amusical, the one-off musical and comedy extravaganza happening at the Pleasance Grand on the 23rd of August. We’ve got a chat with host Jayde Adams and musician Dave Cribb as well as some beautiful singing from Richard Gadd and a secret special guest…

Day three, week three of the Edinburgh Fringe festival and we’ve still got even more bloomin’ brilliant new comedy from the Pleasance! In this podcast Lucy Porter has a run-in with the local council, Ivo Graham defrosts his freezer and Alisdair Beckett-King generates tweets with a steam-powered accordion. Live stand-up comes courtesy of Rhys James, Jenny Bede and Kae Kurd.

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It’s time to meet the stars of tomorrow! The Pleasance Comedy Reserve is back for its 13th year at the Edinburgh Fringe with another four brilliant new acts, handpicked by the Pleasance and supported by the Charlie Hartill Special Reserve Fund. Previous Comedy Reserve members include Jack Whitehall, Roisin Conaty, Joe Lycett, Simon Brodkin, Holly Walsh and Daniel Rigby. This years comedy reserve stars Catherine Bohart, Sophie Duker, Danny Clives and Nigel Ung. You’re going to meet them all in this episode as well as one of last years Comedy Reserve kids, Darren Harriot. 

In this episode, Tez Ilyas takes issue with artisan cheeseboards, Andy Field laughs at his own jokes, Angela Barnes is having a disgracefully healthy and happy Fringe, Rose Matafeo gives us real-talk about the pill, Chris Turner tells us how he jumped out of the Brexit frying-pan and into the Trump fire and Eric Davis AKA The Red Bastard promises to expose your lies… 

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Big names and fresh faces for you today. BBC Three's Dane Baptiste is a man with a lot to say about the world, whilst BBC Two's Rachel Parris lays down the rules for feminism. 

There's some challenging stand up from Sophie Willan and we get a chat and a sketch from Leed "Vic and Bobesque" Ross and Josh. 

Al's in charge today, so he gets to break the rules and be a bit self indulgent, including a banging interview with lady of the moment Kiri Pritchard-Mclean.

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Oh hello there! It’s week two of the Fringe and Maddie and Al are back with another joy-packed podcast. In this episode Al talks to Rhys James about his worst Kate Nash based experience (we’ve all got one!) and asks Jayde Adams about turning down Britain’s Got Talent (we’ve all done it!) whilst Maddie gets Max & Ivan to expose the illegal Segway trade in Melbourne. We’ve also got brilliant sneak-peaks of comedy from Tessa Coates, Nigel Ng and Michael Stranney. What a start to the week! 

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