While there'll always be a place for down-the-line observational stand-up, there are thankfully also some comics doing stranger stuff at the fringes. "It's perhaps less mainstream acts, a bit more ...

Winner of the 2012 Chortle Award for innovation for La Concepta, a conceptual restaurant that popped up at various secret venues around the Edinburgh Fringe the previous year. Simon Munnery has a ...

Fortysomething geek or indie rocker? His gigs defy narrow categorisation too, being experimentally varied and full of non-sequiturs. One minute he'll be launching into a satirical droning ballad – "la ...

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A killer game of hide and seek.

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Twenty years ago, in Edinburgh, legendary comedian Simon Munnery was ...

Simon Munnery is pondering. "You know how in a bathroom you have a toilet and a sink next to each other? The waste pipe from the sink should fill up the toilet cistern, rather than using fresh water.

When comedian Simon Munnery last passed in October 2010 as warm-up to Stewart Lee at the Regal in Cowley Road, writes Nick Utechin. On Saturday, he has his own space at North Wall in the intriguing ...

“I’ve been mugged three times and arrested once. What a night!” Twenty years ago, in Edinburgh, legendary comedian Simon Munnery was arrested for “being a German in a built-up area”. It wasn’t an ...

Simon shares his new stand-up hour. 'There’s something utterly refreshing about Munnery’s shows. You come out feeling like you’ve had a bath, an afternoon nap or a walk in the woods' ***** (Scotsman).

Without a hint of offence intended to Simon, it would be very difficult to picture those wispy locks and crooked grin being applied anywhere else but live entertainment. "Erm, I guess I could do ...