The first comedy festival on the Edinburgh Fringe? You’re joking – right?
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 After all, this stuff has been with us for so long and so
most? – still just can’t keep away.
But that’s the point. To make room for the favourites and to make yet more room for the rising stars,  Edinburgh needed this: the radical creation of a new festival-within-a-festival, separated but integrated, with space and resources to nurture and display the finest comedic talents under the joint banners of the most prestigious venues in town.
 So welcome, please, to the 2008 inaugural Edinburgh Comedy Festival, in which Assembly, Gilded Balloon, Pleasance and Underbelly are collaborating to showcase every style of contemporary comedy - be it stand-up, sketch, improv, poetry, musical or comic theatre.
One clear selection, on one concise website, to help you make your choices. And to make it easier still to plan ahead: all tickets, to all shows, can be bought at all our box offices.
 Have a great festival.
William, Karen, Anthony, Ed and Charlie
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