In touch with his feminine side ... Brendon Burns. Photograph: Adam Ethan Crow
Brian Logan has headed for the hills in the last days of the festival, so I'm taking the reins for today's final half-hour edition of the Heckle.
Joining Lucy Porter and I around the Guardian's kitchen table are Stephen K Amos, who has been packing them in at the Pleasance with his show More of Me, and Carrie Quinlan, who is appearing in newspaper satire show the Early Edition. Also round the table is the Guardian's Leo Benedictus, our comedy critic for the final week.
Together we'll be picking over the bones of the festival. We'll quiz punters on who gets this year's award for worst Fringe poster. We'll ask whether comedians really are what they eat, with contributions from Arthur Smith and if.comedy-nominated Brendon Burns. We'll look at the science of comedy with Belgian theatre supremo Jos Houben, whose show The Art of Laughter is as thought-provoking as it is funny.
What else? We'll research with Kirsten O'Brien and Howard Read whether it's scarier to play for kids or adults. Finally, the silver-tongued rock'n'roll poet Murray Lachlan Young performs a special ode to Edinburgh to send us on our way for another year.
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