Candid Stand-Up Comedian Interviews & Reviews

Hop For Pop talks to comedians about what really happens behind the mic: how a joke gets written, why a set bombs, and what it takes to keep going. Learn how stand-up comedy works from the people who do it, and read our honest comedy reviews and Edinburgh Fringe 2026 coverage, from the team behind The Comics Unseen.

Comedy Interviews

Krystyna Hutchinson and Corinne Fisher Have Never Missed a Friday in 13 Years

October 5, 2026

Comedy Interviews

The $10 Joke That Started Larry Charles's Improbable Career

October 1, 2026

Comedy Interviews

From a Boy Scout Campfire to the Olympia Paris: John Achkar's Unlikely Rise

September 13, 2026

Comedy Interviews

Armageddon Out Of Here: Tom Johnson's Celebration of Humanity at Its Absolute Worst

September 1, 2026

Comedy Ed Fringe 2026

Tori Morancay: The French Girl Who Turned a Unicycle Disaster Into Stand-Up

September 1, 2026

Comedy Via Experience

Comedy Comedy Lessons

What Clown School Teaches Comedians: Six Lessons From Gaulier and Beyond

October 9, 2026

Sevrin Willinder spent about ten weeks failing at clown school. The method at Philippe Gaulier’s school in France involves a teacher with a drum and a supply of insults. Willinder was not even being insulted, which was worse. The drum would sound and the next student…

Comedy Comedy Lessons Ed Fringe 2026

What the Edinburgh Fringe Really Costs, and Whether It Is Worth It

October 9, 2026

Liz Coin raised fourteen thousand dollars to bring her show from New York to the 2026 Edinburgh Fringe. In the show she plays a woman who believes she is on Broadway with an enormous budget. What the audience actually sees looks more like a teenager in a church basement, and…

Comedy Comedy Lessons

British vs American Audiences: What Comedians Who Play Both Have Learned

October 8, 2026

Brendon Lemon is from Detroit. His grandmother is from Edinburgh, and he has now been to the Fringe there five times. After the first one, in 2017, he came home with a theory about the two countries.“The British don’t laugh at everything. Americans laugh at…