Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009: Comedy
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival began in 1947 with just eight theatre companies taking part. It has expanded considerably since then to include comedy, music, dance, opera and musicals and is worth around 75 million quid each year to the Scottish economy. The Fringe is divided into a number of smaller festivals and each of these make up the Fringe Festival. Over one third of all shows in 2009 were comedy performances, slightly ahead of theatre, while music accounted for one sixth of the shows. In just over three weeks, Fringe 2009 sold (wait for it) 1.86 million tickets [...]
- Bill Hicks - Easter
- Bob Newhart - Bus Drivers School
- Bob Newhart - Daddy of All Hangovers
- Bob Newhart - Ledge Psychology
- Christian Rodska - Survivor
- Eddie Izzard - Cats And Dogs
- Fawlty Towers - The Germans: Next Please Polly!
- Goodness Gracious Me - Let's Go For An English
- Greg Proops - English Pubs
- Griff Rhys Jones - I Had A Duck-Billed Platypus
- Ivor Cutler - Loneliness
- Monty Python - The Parrot Sketch
- Monty Python & Rowan Atkinson - The Four Yorkshiremen
- Murray Lachlan Young - I'm Being Followed by the Rolling Stones
- Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - The Psychiatrist
- Peter Sellers - A Hard Day's Night
- Peter Sellers - Peter Sellers Sings George Gershwin
- Shel Silverstein - Boy Named Sue
- Smith And Jones - Bob Geldof
- Spike Milligan - Purple Aeroplane
- Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
- Woody Allen - The Moose
- Woody Allen - The Science Fiction Film




















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