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Article: The Comedy Festival? It's no laughing matter Top promoter calls for rethink: 'This is the festival that dare not speak its name'
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- August 16, 2009
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FIVE star reviews were few and far between when the four biggest
venues of the Edinburgh Fringe announced last year they would pool
their comedy programmes and call it the Edinburgh Comedy Festival.
Now in the middle of its second year the Edinburgh Comedy Festival
has been called a failure and should be axed, according to one of
the Fringe's top comedy promoters and board member of the Fringe
Society.
The Sunday Herald has seen a letter sent from the head of The
Stand Comedy Club, Tommy Sheppard, to the chiefs of the Assembly
Rooms, Underbelly, Pleasance, and the Gilded Balloon.
In it he called the event "the festival that dare not speak its
name" due to its lack of visibility. He proposed ...