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Get ready for Edinburgh Fringe 2026!πŸ₯³πŸŽ‰If you're new here, Fringe, the biggest arts festival in the world, is legendary for launching comedy stars…but it’s also legendary for completely draining your bank account. But the good news is we're doing the heavy lifting (and the walking) for you. 🀫 We’ve scouted the absolute best rising comics and we're streaming the festival's hottest shows straight to your screen. This August, get ready for pure, unfiltered, front-row Fringe brilliance from the comfort of your couch. Oh, and obviously you guys will be the first to know about the lineup...coming soon! Any predictions/wishes/desires/dreams? πŸ€— Welcome to Ask a Comedian - our little corner of the NextUp community for getting closer to the people who do the mindblowing, and surprisingly full-on job of making people laugh. 🎭This channel is a place to drop questions for comedians about anything comedy. From writing and finding ideas, prep and pre-show routines, nerves and confidence, gigs that went great (and gigs that didn’t) to touring, crowd work, heckles, bombing, you name it! Ask what you’re curious about, whether you’re a comedy nerd, a casual watcher, or someone who performs. Keep it respectful (obvs!)How it works: We’ll post when we're meeting up with a comedian to film their special or chatting with them, you leave your questions in the comments and we’ll pick 3–5 to put to them, and share the answers back here. 🎀
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August 28, 2023

Thankyou very much.
I always used to go to the Fringe.
I no longer can.
I have profound physical disabilities.
But you allow me to feel like I'm there.
Really. It's a unique joy to me.
Very, very special.
Thankyou.
Please feel free to increase your price if it subsides comedy like this.
Thankyou.
You've made a difference

  in  πŸ“Ί whats-on
August 27, 2023

Hi guys
Is there any way you could set up a tip jar for yourself as I'm sure a lot of us would love to give you guys a little something for a drink (or meal) to say thanks for all your hard work over the last month bringing us all these shows.
Your hard work is much appreciated by all of us especially the ones like me who can't get out to live events easily.
As a event Tec myself I know how much goes in to one event but 50+ how the hell did you do it Carlos will be untangling cables till Christmas.
So BIG BIG thanks to all
Martin & Carolyn

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  in  πŸ“Ί whats-on
August 25, 2023

Just quickly between shows popped in here to say thank you for an excellent fringe lineup. On Sunday I’ll be running between shows for real and am sad to be missing the Sunday streaming lineup even to be in Edinburgh in person.

  in  πŸ“Ί whats-on
August 25, 2023
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Was anyone else aware NextUp have a live stream channel on Virgin 242? It appears to be streaming Jazz Emu live now (even though the planner said Shaparak Koursandi was live between 9-10pm. The odd thing is, the show is being interrupted by adverts. Guessing this is actually live as we're missing bits of the show.

Does anyone have a list of shows that will be streamed there for the final weekend? Only just found it and there's nothing I can find about it on the app.

Edit - I've got notification of 3 replies to this post, bit for some reason I can't now see any of them. Not sure if they've been deleted for some reason or if there's a fault with the app?

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  in  πŸ“Ί whats-on
August 25, 2023

Or is it just me?

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  in  πŸ“Ί whats-on
August 24, 2023

Anyone else not able to stream the all killa no filla show? It's not loading on mine

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  in  πŸ“Ί whats-on
August 24, 2023

I see the graphic has changed to say Saturday, but with today's date... And it appears not to be streamable right now.

Has the stream been rescheduled?

  in  πŸ“Ί whats-on
August 24, 2023

Hey team, saw on the Ed Fringe site that the 'so you think you're funny' show is 2.5hrs, which means it will clash with Showstoppers (nooooo). Any chance of a change in timings or will Showstoppers be live tonight too and will there be two streams. Thanks

  in  πŸ“Ί whats-on
August 22, 2023

Is there any way to watch the Fringe shows on catchup?

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  in  πŸ“£ club-updates
August 22, 2023

Hello, about a week ago I posted a query asking why the Samsung tv next up app had been retired, especially since Samsung is the largest selling tv brand by some margin. A couple of people responded to it but there was no official response. I went to look today and see that the post has been deleted. There was nothing rude offensive or even contentious within it. There are other posts about different tv apps in this same community that haven’t been deleted. I’d be grateful for an explanation why it was deleted, especially if it was due to breaking some policy or guidelines.