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Comedians on meeting their hecklers
Sarah Kendall, Mark Watson, Alexei Sayle and other standups recall what happened when they came face to face with their toughest critics after a show.
The Guardian, 16th August 2016Standard Issue at the Fringe: part one
As the curtain comes up on thousands of shows in Edinburgh, we thought we'd put a spotlight on our lovely contributors who will be taking a lot of bows over the next month. There'll be more on Monday.
Standard Issue, 5th August 2016Onion at the Fringe: Cariad Lloyd and Austentatious
Next up is Cariad Lloyd, star of Murder in Successville, Crims and Crackanory who is embarking on her fifth year at the Fringe as part of improvised show Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austin Novel.
The Velvet Onion, 27th July 2016Austentatious: Edinburgh Fringe 2016 interview
I remember seeing Austentatious for the first time a few years as part of the free festival at the Counting House. The buzz was already strong for this marvellous improvised Jane Austen novel, with the queue trailing round the corner and both audience and cast seemingly loving every second of this one-off adventure. Since then the gang - which includes celebrated solo acts like Joseph Morpurgo, Rachel Parris and Cariad Lloyd - has gone from strength to strength, and has now set up home in the main Underbelly venue on George Square, serving as one of the Fringe's true success stories.
Laugh Out London, 26th July 2016I talk to: Cariad Lloyd
Hoping to make it five sellout years in a row, award-winning improvised comedy show Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel is returning to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Elliot Gonzalez, The Reviews Hub, 22nd July 2016A Quick Chat With... Cariad Lloyd
It looked like Cariad Lloyd wouldn't have room left on her CV for anything else.
Gavin Collinson, BBC Writersroom, 15th July 2016Meet the new inhabitants of Successville
To celebrate, the good folk at Tiger Aspect have let us in on a little more about this year's murder victims and the suspects, who is playing who, and exactly when you'll be able to see them... plus a set of exclusive images across this post of most of our regulars in action. You'll probably notice there's a distinct lack of Paul Kaye in this images, but more on that one soon... until then, here's a run-down of each episode!
The Velvet Onion, 4th June 2016The World Of Simon Rich review
It's in the longer fictions in which the show finds its own place and pace, with an unhurried storytelling that sets up delightful images. The absurdity starts with a whimsical Alice In Wonderland-style tale about a nine-year-old girl and her adventures with a waistcoated goat.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 2nd June 2016I Want My Wife Back will need to do better
In the end, though, this was a comedy that was mainly stuck in neutral. It would really need to shift up a gear or three to make me want to watch a second series.
Gerard O'Donovan, The Telegraph, 23rd May 2016Sheridan Smith's Funny Girl is a masterclass
I've never seen a musical performance so committed to comedy. Sheridan Smith is determined to get a laugh out of every line, and she does.
Cariad Lloyd, The Guardian, 29th April 2016