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Entertainment
Miles Jupp

Live at the Edinburgh Festival: Best of week one

Join Miles Jupp as he whirls through a week's worth of comedy in one gulp of gags.

First up, there's the Pajama Men with odes to, among other things, an ass that's so round King Arthur and his knights probably sat at it. Nice.

Zoe Lyons recounts a beautiful meeting with a couple of binge-drinkers and savours the language of car horns and posh smoothies. Then fresh-faced funnyman Daniel Sloss has a few words about Fife, the 'incest capital of Scotland', and why he has the worst birthday in the world.

Music next courtesy of the Magnets, who celebrate Scotland with a rousing song, tipping a hat to Franz Ferdinand. Phil Nichol drops in to show off his new character, lounge-poet Bobby Spade, for an onslaught of ridiculously good bad jokes. Then Idiots of Ants construct a fanciful conversation out of love-song logic.

Finally, if you're easily offended, you might want to cover your ears before 4 Poofs and a Piano finish things off with a deliciously filthy closing number.

Come back next week!

We're also giving you the opportunity to perform in front of our live, sold-out audience. If you're an aspiring comedian, enter our comedy competition.

And if you're in Edinburgh, we want to see you! Make sure you come to one of our recordings, every weekday at noon at the Gilded Balloon, Teviot Square. Entrance is free but you need a ticket - go to the Fringe box office, or the venue, or call 0131-622 6552.

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