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Edinburgh is the most pressurised environment to do comedy. You get an hour. There's no compere. You'd better be on the money straight away;…

— Dominic Holland

I did a lot of theatre when I started out. It was the Lyceum, the Citz, the Tron and the Traverse. I came to…

— Ashley Jensen

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

— Eric Idle

Years ago, there was a variety theatre in every British town, and people paid to go down and see it. Comedy was the main…

— Norman Wisdom

I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I…

— T. J. Miller

In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.

— Charlie Brooker

For comics, Edinburgh makes no financial or medical sense. Get an audience; that's the first task. Once the punters are in, simply make them…

— Dominic Holland

Once I found out there were places that people went to congregate and that there were schools to practice the craft of comedy, that's…

— Quinta Brunson

I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.

— Tom Green

The Edinburgh Fringe is a tough beast and you do whatever you can to get through it. But it's really the worst place to…

— Russell Howard

I started in comedy when I was a kid, doing impressions for family members. Comedy was the way to engage people.

— Harris Dickinson

I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London…

— Alice Lowe