Meg Millane got married in her early 30s. Five of her friends did the same within roughly the same window. She was already doing wedding-adjacent characters and sketches on stage. Bride To Be is what happened when she noticed how much material there was. She workshopped it about a year ago, before the wedding. Then she let it rest, got married, and found the actual story.
Millane is New York-based…
Chloe Matonis plays a soldier who has travelled back from 2075. The character is called Lieutenant Love Doctor Hottie McTottie. Her mission is to end the loneliness epidemic before it takes hold. In her future, social contact has been criminalised for public safety. Boot…
Tom Johnson is an actor first, and a sketch comedian by accident. Armageddon Out Of Here is his second Fringe show. He performs it with Rob Glenister, who he has known for years. The two do improv together in Southend-on-Sea, in Essex. The show is set around the apocalypse.
American Assholes is three American comics on one Edinburgh bill. Danielle Slaughter, Lauren LoGiudice and Wayne Charles II share it. The show opens with a trio segment under that title. Then each of them performs an individual standup set. The through-line is identity politics, dissected from three directions. The working premise is that Americans might in fact be the worst.
They did not assemble…
Jackie Joy moved from Brazil to Vancouver with almost no English. Across from her office was a club called Comedy Dark. Bring three people and you got four minutes on stage. She told her friends she was going to do it. Nobody believed her, on the grounds that her English was…
Aarushi Agni was born in India and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. She moved to New York in 2016 for an MFA in writing. She has been doing standup for about eleven years. None of the jokes from her first open mic survived. She started in sketch, pulled onto an all-Asian team…
The Cat Was Raised in a Box: An Interview With Tom Nemec
August 7, 2026
Tom Nemec is sixty years old. He has been doing standup for about thirty-five years. He has been sober for thirty-six, since 1990. He was twenty-four when he stopped drinking, and started performing shortly after. By forty he had held a hundred and seventy-five different jobs.
A Cat in a Box is his first one-man play, directed by Jim Mendrinos. It is about his childhood, his family, and the…
Brendon Lemon has been telling jokes for twenty-five years. The last three and a half he has spent learning how to fail at them properly. Born in Detroit, now based in New York, he first took a microphone in 2002. The room was Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle, the oldest club…
Corinne Fisher Is Not Interested in Being Humbled
August 6, 2026
Twelve years into Guys We Fked and Corinne Fisher still insists she and Krystyna Hutchinson don’t write stand-up together, they just happen to have built an entire empire side by side. “That’s our baby,” she says of the show, before drawing a hard…
If you’ve ever wondered what performing on OnlyFans, voicing Judy Carter in Portuguese and defending Mercury in retrograde have in common, the answer is Manu Maciel.
The Brazilian comedian has built a career that happily ignores borders, bouncing between English and Portuguese, internet sketches and international stages, with the kind of brain that can find a joke almost anywhere.