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Volume 4 Number 1 Winter 1987

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I’ve been visiting the Edinburgh Fringe Festival since 1963. In the early days there were six comedy shows in the programme, which was printed on vellum and hand-delivered to critics who were ferried from show to show on sedan chairs carried by theology students from Edinburgh University. Hog roasts were served in journalists’ rooms at the end of the day – around 4.30pm.

OK, that’s not quite true. Occasionally we finished at 5.30. Seriously though folks, I’ve been going since the 1990s and it has changed. Comedy now dominates Edinburgh in August. Critics have to struggle to squeeze in as many shows as possible. At least we don’t have to worry about finding time to eat between shows. We can’t afford to eat these days.

Here’s a shocking stat. When Arnold “Why Not?” Brown won the Perrier Award in 1987 – the first bona fide “alternative comedian” winner (it was mostly clowns, wannabe thesps and Stephen Fry until then) – the judges only had about 40 shows to choose from. It was a joint act with musical duo Jungr and Parker. I’m not sure if a joint show would be eligible today, but there was less to choose from then so maybe the rules were baggier. (You don’t expect me to do proper research on Substack’s rates do you?)

There have been calls to limit the Fringe, but as one venue closes more spring up, whack-a-mole-stylee. There used to be a joke that any space in the city would be used as a venue. Even the toilets. This was officially no longer funny when in 2015 Paul Ricketts performed Now Wash Your Hands – Again! in the public loos of the Pleasance, Gilded Balloon, Assembly and Underbelly venues.

But I digress. This year’s Fringe has made me think back to some of the weirder acts I saw in my youth.

The trouble is, as they say, if you can remember the 1990s Edinburgh Fringe you probably weren’t drinking as much as you should have. I can remember more about events in the Assembly Rooms members’ bar – someone now famous in a scuffl