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Edgar Wright contemplates The World's End
As Wright explains, the pub crawl wasn't the only event from his youth that he put on screen.
Tim Masters, BBC News, 18th July 2013Edinburgh 10x10: YouTube heroes
Ten Edinburgh performers with a strong online following.
Chortle, 18th July 2013Writer Sarah Page: What I've learned
Happily my sketch has elbowed its way into the final episode of The Show What You Wrote and I can reflect on what I've learned from the process.
Sarah Page, BBC Blogs, 18th July 2013Edinburgh Fringe interview: Carly Smallman
Carly Smallman has made a name for herself in recent years as a musical comedy act with a penchant for sweetly sung funny songs with the occasional disturbing twist.
Laugh Out London, 18th July 2013Latitude 2013: our comedy picks
Latitude say they're "more than just a music festival." It's a claim trotted out by just about every festival in the country, to be fair, but Latitude deliver on their promise. In theory, you could leave Henham Park on Monday having seen no music whatsoever - and you'll still be satisfied with the end product.
Giggle Beats, 18th July 2013Film review: The World's End (15)
It's fine in its way, a fond and silly salute to pub crawls, old friends, crap cars, roundabouts, British eccentricity and keeping your head in a crisis - it's just terribly hit-and-miss.
Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 18th July 2013The show what we wrote
Four aspiring writers talk about getting their work broadcast on Radio 4's The Show What You Wrote.
David Crawford, Radio Times, 18th July 2013Pegg & Frost's new film is a very fun night out
For all its flaws, The World's End is fun. It's not as appealing as Shaun Of The Dead, but I preferred it to Hot Fuzz.
Brian Viner, Daily Mail, 18th July 2013The World's End - review
Edgar Wright's new movie lands a double-whammy of funny and clever: a good-natured sci-fi comedy of male mid-life discontent that disproves the famous LP Hartley quotation. It is the present that is the foreign country, or rather the alien planet, and as we get older we feel increasingly exiled from that homeland of the past where everything felt more vivid and real.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 18th July 2013Daniel Simonsen interview
Daniel Simonsen knows first hand that a good joke is funny in any language and that humour transcends national boundaries.
Chris McCall, Falkirk Herald, 18th July 2013Rob Delaney's 10 Edinburgh questions
In which US comedy heartthrob Rob Delaney offers to perform a sex act on/with Edinburgh is Funny. Swoon!
London Is Funny, 18th July 2013Nadia Kamil's 10 Edinburgh questions
Welsh-Iraqi comic Nadia Kamil hits Scotland hard with show about structural inequality and unicorns.
London Is Funny, 18th July 2013Come on Edinburgh 2013, let's be having you!
Bang. Up. For. This. One. There's never a shortage of shows to get excited about at the Edinburgh Fringe but this year's lot is looking particularly foxy, mainly because of this - it's a newcomer's year.
London Is Funny, 18th July 2013A Midsummer Night's Dream review
The star of the show is Puck, played by Owen Pullar. This vengeful imp seems to have made the most of the numerous coffee shops in the area as his energy and exuberance are never ending and highly engaging.
Rhiannon Lawson, What's On Stage, 18th July 2013Videos
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10:45am15 min
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Series 1, Episode 4 - Like Moths Unto A FlameBella is making the most of her new-found libido, while Bill is convinced he is being sabotaged at work.
5pm25 min
DNN
Series 1, Episode 8Bob has enraged Stacey-May Anaïs, who meets boy band Lawson, by using her One Direction towel; Jahmene investigates photo-bombing; and Gary Odgen attempts to swim with Steve Parry.
10pm30 min
Mock The Week
Series 12, Episode 6Dara O Briain and the team find the comedy in the week's news with the help of guests Rob Beckett, Ed Byrne and Chris Ramsey.
10pm30 min
Live At The Electric
Series 2, Episode 3The prospect of parents evening causes panic in WitTank presents The School; Marcel Lucont advises how to make international travel more entertaining; and master of seduction Antonio teaches us how to deal with rejection.
11pm30 min
The Show What You Wrote
Series 1, Episode 4 - Kitchen SinkSome gritty, social realism comedy what you wrote.