Who was it that originally came up with 'bridezilla' - the catchy term for a fiancé who becomes a total diva before the wedding day? Was it someone behind that popular reality TV show of the same name, or did they borrow it? It just seems a bit unfair on the brides that it hasn't spun off into more categories: surely there are groomzillas too. And definitely mother-of-the-bridezillas. And if they don't become the full bridezilla, just a bit annoying, are they then a bridezooky?

Anyway, seeing that show in the TV listings - it seems to be on one of the lifestyle channels almost constantly - got us thinking about how that concept applies to live comedy; or, rather, how it usually doesn't. 99% of working comics just can't afford to be a pain about their shows. Which is a shame, as we're enjoying coming up with these. Santas who get too precious about their workplaces, for example, are grottozillas - not to be confused with the website slotozillas, which rounds up the biggest online casino bonuses, or blottozillas: drunks who suddenly gets all belligerent about a particular pub.

If you think about how the Edinburgh Fringe works, there just isn't time for tantrums. Even TV names in a decent-sized venue still only get a few minutes to set their show up each night, such is the turnaround between them.

Imagine if an Edinburgh show was a wedding: there are certainly similarities, aside from the thousands of pounds they invariably cost. You spend all year planning the event, working out exactly what you're going to say, and how everything looks. Then it finally arrives, but in this case you only get about 15 minutes to set the whole thing up. Indeed, you might also have been standing outside right up until the event begins, handing out invites to random passers-by.

Comedy types just have to get on with it. Recently we interviewed the director of an improv troupe who put on a pretty sizeable daily show every year at the Fringe, with an elaborate stage set: she explained how their post-show set-undressing has been honed to almost military-style precision. It's like watching a Formula 1 pit crew in action.

Now comedians are widely assumed to not be the best-adjusted people in the world, so you will get stroppiness, on occasion, but there just isn't the opportunity to go full diva. If the show before you overruns, it's all hands to the pumps. And complaining about that late-running show may be pointless anyway.

A couple of years ago we went to see two consecutive shows at the same venue, so got chatting to the first act while waiting for the second show to start. Apparently the chap doing Show 2 had been kicking up a stink about the previous one overrunning (which is a funny image in itself, if you know who that second comic is).

Actually it turned out that a show much earlier in the day was the consistent culprit, and was making all of the subsequent acts run late. So, no, there's no point rocking the boat when you're all in it together.

As for whoever was behind that earlier show, they presumably gave up comedy to run one of the UK's less-loved railway companies. And their many, many disgruntled passengerzillas.

Speaking of reality shows, comedians have infiltrated actual weddings - or the traditional stuff that happens pre-weddings - for material. In 2014 the ITV2 series Bad Bridesmaid created a sort of comedy/reality hybrid, by inserting a comedian (the impressive cast featured Anna Morris, Holly Burn, London Hughes, Sarah Campbell, Anneka Harry and Jane Horrocks) into a real hen party.

That fake bridesmaid would then cause chaos, but the bride would be in on the joke and have to keep her real bridesmaids in the dark throughout. If they didn't catch on, the newlyweds would win a posh honeymoon.

More recently, a real comedy couple - Harriet Kemsley and Bobby Mair - helped pay for their nuptials by turning the whole build-up into a TV series: Bobby And Harriet Get Married.

Kemsley - whose recent Edinburgh show Slutty Joan won much praise for its revealing look at female sexuality, and her own relationship history - told us about Bobby And Harriet Get Married a few weeks before it aired last year. "The series follows us as we plan our wedding," she explained. "I play Harriet who is a petty idiotic control freak comedian and Bobby plays an angry narcissist comedian. It's been a real stretch."

This was an intriguing mix of comedy and reality too, so they referred to the show as a 'reality sitcom,' because "it's our real names, our real friends and our real wedding," said Kemsley, "but every episode is heavily plotted and filled with jokes. We shot a four-minute taster around Crystal Palace and six weeks before our wedding the wonderful people at Viceland commissioned it. It's been the most insane few months of my life."

Weddings tend to be pretty insane anyway: imagine trying to work a TV crew into that, too. Still, you'd end up with a pretty impressive wedding video.