The following article by Vincent Dowd was posted on the BBC.com website August 26, 2017:
In Edinburgh, this is the final hectic weekend of the annual Festival Fringe.
There have been 3,400 shows – some of which have delighted critics and some which definitely did not.
In comedy, a rich theme has been the state of America and of the US presidency.
But is satirising President Trump the definition of pointlessness?
At the start of last year, comedian Simon Jay needed to decide on the show he’d work on for the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
“This was 20 months ago so Donald Trump wasn’t even Republican nominee – but I sensed comedy in him so I decided to take a punt and go for a Trump show,” he says. Continue reading “Edinburgh Fringe: The comics taking on Trump”