Joke's over: why standups should refresh the tired 'Edinburgh show'

10:00pm PDT - August 27th, 2018    hannah gadsby - The Guardian (AU)

The classic Edinburgh comedy show lasts an hour, with a strong narrative component and an inevitable ‘sad bit’. But this rigid template is stifling creativity The late Sean Hughes had a reasonable claim to inventing what we now know as the “Edinburgh show”. B…