Have you heard the one about the comedian who tried to act? ... Robin Ince. Photograph: BBC
In today's bumper, supersize-me Heckle, Richard Herring and Robin Ince join us in the pod to talk week two of the festival. Together we lift the lid on live-and-lairy late-night venues; measure up the if.comedy awards shortlist, out next week, and select a few contenders ourselves.
We also discuss what happens when comedians are forced to play in a converted building site instead of the venue they thought they were getting. Comedian Stephen Carlin tells us how he found himself venue-less two weeks before the Fringe and we ask critic Maxie Szalwinska if venues make a difference to reviews.
With Stewart Lee's latest project, Johnson and Boswell: Late But Live, uppermost in our minds, we also ask what happens when comedians try to act, and I tee off at the comics-versus-critics golf tournament.
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