Comedy Club 4 Kids wins an Edinburgh Comedy Award
August 2025
Filed Under: Awards, Comedy Club 4 Kids, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, News
Yes! Here’s a tip for any budding new comedians out there. The key way to win an Edinburgh Comedy Award is to run a company for 20 years until they’re forced to give in and accept you do nice things. I had a lovely surprise on Friday when I heard the Victoria Wood Edinburgh Comedy […]
FFS Lockdown
August 2020
Filed Under: Comedy, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, FFS Support, Mental Health
I had a lovely chat with Jamie at Fringe Festival Support, all about my general levels of despairing during lockdown and after. FFS do lots of work looking into the mental health of performers, so warning: Some stuff I talk about is a tad bleak.
Fringeless
August 2020
Filed Under: Comedy, edfringe, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, stand up comedy
I did a little blog about going up to Edinburgh when the Fringe isn’t on, how comedy is still a mess and the general state of things. It does also have some stuff about telling jokes to seagulls though, so not all bad. Do have a read: https://medium.com/@TiernanDouieb/fringeless-70bfa5449fcd
Mind Fringes
August 2017
Filed Under: Adrenaline, Blog, cabin fever, Comedy, diabetes, diabetic, edfringe, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe, News
I’ve now been home from the Edinburgh Fringe for 3 days, and I’m still in the usual need for recovery. Yesterday I accidentally napped for 3 hours without meaning to. Does that still fit into nap criteria? 3 hours doesn’t feel long enough for a sleep but it’s definitely way more than a nap. Is […]
EdFringe 2015: Epilogue
August 2015
Filed Under: baked potato, Blog, Chris Hadfield, Comedy, edfringe, Edinburgh Fringe, ESA, Festival, Free Fringe, George Monbiot, News
I’m at home, in my PJs, after having slept in a bed that wasn’t just a thinly designed cover for a bag of springs, and having eaten food with vitamins in it. I am the sort of tired you can only have after performing nearly every day for 3 and a bit weeks straight. I […]
The Folly Of Human Conceits
A seagull shat on me today. I stood outside a Fringe venue, waiting to go in and perform and the offending article rained down on me from high, it’s viscous black liquid rebounding off my head and onto my hoodie. I had been mid-conversation with two people who were explaining to me why they won’t […]
A Pint Of Human Kindness
I like finding new things. In these days of mass internet usage there seems to be a new thing every two minutes to share, or tell everyone it’s the funniest or saddest or most emotive in some way thing you’ve ever seen. Even if you’ve said that just the day before about something equally as […]
Dear Audience…
Dear audience that were present at tonight’s gig, It’s now after the show. It’s (still) a Saturday night. My girlfriend is away on a hen weekend and I’ve been invited to a party that I was quite tempted to go to. But instead I’m already sitting at home in my pyjamas with the aim of spending […]
Showvelution
July 2014
Filed Under: Blog, Comedy, Darlington, Easglescliffe, edfringe, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fringe, Exeter, News
I was worried that this blog may not apply or be of interest to you all. Then I realised, you’ve all written an hour show right? Of course you have. Everyone, at one point or another, has sat down, churned out an hour of stand-up in order to perform it to people all round the […]
Funny Thoughts
January 2014
Filed Under: Blog, Comedy, Edinburgh Fringe, EU, Euro Elections, football hooligan, News
There are many problems with comedy, and one of the main ones is constantly being obsessed with overthinking about it and working out exactly what it is we are all meant to be doing. This is pretty much what leads to all the other problems of comedy and were any of us that are involved […]