Letter to Edinburgh: Nat Luurtsema

Nat Luurtsema is taking a year off the Edinburgh Fringe. So she sent everyone else this letter.

Why free is the new funny

Bafta-nominated stand-up Nat Luurtsema on why Edinburgh has stopped charging for laughs...

Nat Luurtsema on her Bafta-nominated comedy film

A dark comedy about a sperm-bank hiccup - made for just £1,000 - has been nominated in next month's Bafta film awards. Writer Nat Luurtsema is in a tizz.

My Edinburgh: Nat Luurtsema

The comic and writer may have ended up in A&E four years running, but she'd never go anywhere but Edinburgh in August.

Jigsaw: A comedy show that has got the ex-factor

When it comes to heartache they say time is a great healer. They don't say much about performing a comedy show about your ex, and another one with your ex. But that is what stand-ups Tom Craine and Nat Luurtsema are doing at the Fringe.

Fringe diary: Nat Luurtsema & Red Bastard

At the Edinburgh festival, Nat Luurtsema battles bad acoustics and a broken heart, David Quirk ponders cheating and Eric Davis's alter ego sets about demolishing some inhibitions.

Top 5 free comedies at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Featuring Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans, Sean McLoughlin, Nat Luurtsema and John-Luke Roberts.

On late-night Radio 4 is a new sketch show from comedians Dan Antopolski, Tom Craine and Nat Luurtsema.

Jigsaw's most notable characteristic - if indeed it is such a thing - is their brevity. Most of the sketches are very short, which given the fact the show is only 15 minutes long is a sensible move. The average length of the sketches appeared to be around a minute.

With such a format, it's key to try and makes the sketches hit the mark as often as possible; in this first episode most of the sketches didn't quite hit the mark, but when they did they really flied. My personal favourites was just one sketch in, when a couple are having sex; the women then gives her partner some strawberries, unaware of his allergy to them. I also quite liked the technology sketch with music about the "Bandwidth Bandito".

It's hard to sum up such a short show, but there are some gems hidden within this shower of sketches. I';l certainly be tuning in next week.

Nat Luurtsema interview

Comedian Nat Luurtsema, 30, had to move back in with her parents at the age of 28 when she found herself temporarily homeless. She's written a book called Cuckoo In The Nest about her experience.