{"id":30651,"date":"2026-08-07T15:12:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/?p=30651"},"modified":"2026-08-11T13:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:13:16","slug":"eleven-must%e2%80%91see-comedy-shows-at-the-edinburgh-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/arts-social-sciences\/eleven-must%e2%80%91see-comedy-shows-at-the-edinburgh-fringe\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven must\u2011see comedy shows at the Edinburgh Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s febrile Fringe season again: a time of frantic lists and spreadsheets, and that panicked sense you might not be able to catch all the essential shows, says Emma Sullivan, Associate Lecturer, The Open University.<\/p>\n<p>To make life easier, I have compiled a list of the 11 shows that I \u2013 an academic specialising in humour and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/topics\/comedy-140\">comedy<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 am most excited about this year in Edinburgh. In the interests of transparency, I should state my tastes skew towards clown and performance art, but hopefully there\u2019s something here for everyone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/eleven-must-see-comedy-shows-at-the-edinburgh-fringe-289280\">Read the full article on The Conversation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picture credit: luxstorm on Pixabay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s febrile Fringe season again: a time of frantic lists and spreadsheets, and that panicked sense you might not be able to catch all the essential shows, says Emma Sullivan, Associate Lecturer, The Open University. To make life easier, I have compiled a list of the 11 shows that I \u2013 an academic specialising in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":30652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,3],"tags":[858,1525,1643,2200],"class_list":["post-30651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-literature-music","category-arts-social-sciences","tag-faculty-of-arts-and-social-sciences","tag-news-home","tag-ou-news","tag-the-conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30653,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30651\/revisions\/30653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}