"Anthology" at This Year's Edinburgh Festival -- Starts Tomorrow!

Matt Crosby of if.comedy nominee Pappy's Fun Club is the special guest. Sajeela Kershi will talk live for the first time about how she was in last year's if.comedy award-winner but couldn't tell anyone. (I may tell the story about wearing Jerry Seinfeld's trousers.)

Anthology is a comedy storytelling show. Each guest tells a ten-minute true story from life.

We've been recommended multiple times by Time Out and the Evening Standard.

Show's at 12:50pm at The Counting House, 38 West Nicolson Street.

And it's free! (Though contributions are encouraged.)

If you get lost, my number is 07840 588 273.

Hope to see you there.

Andrew
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"Anthology"
Comedians tell stories from their lives, straight, without the stylization and artifice of traditional stand-up comedy.

31 July - 25 Aug (not 11)
The Counting House (close to the Gilded Balloon and all the action)
Daily at 12:50 (One Hour)
Hosted by Andrew J. Lederer
Lineup (so far):
31 July -- Matt Crosby (if.comedy nominee, Pappy's Fun Club), Sajeela Kershi (telling live, for the first time, the story of how she managed to be in the biggest show in Edinburgh last year yet couldn't tell anybody about it)
1 Aug -- Kev F. Sutherland (The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre)
2 Aug -- Jo Caulfield
3 Aug -- Hils Barker, Liam Mullone
4 Aug -- Stephen Grant, Lewis Schaffer
5 Aug -- Steve Day, Tiffany Stevenson, Tiernan Douieb
6 Aug -- James Campbell
7 Aug -- Josie Long (if.comedy best newcomer), Sarah Bennetto, James Dowdeswell
8 Aug -- Zoe Lyons (if.comedy best newcomer nominee)
9 Aug -- Matt Kirshen
10 Aug -- Richard Herring
12 Aug -- Paul Sinha (if.comedy award nominee)
13 Aug -- Deborah Frances-White
14 Aug -- Scott Capurro (Perrier nominee), Sajeela Kershi
15 Aug -- Martha McBrier, Matt Price
16 Aug -- Terry Saunders
17 Aug -- Eric Kirchberger
20 Aug -- Paul Foot
Date TBC -- Ronnie Golden

(Join the Anthology Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6735956172)

First Fringe Press

"Anthology" was mentioned in an interview in the current Three Weeks eWeekly:
What are your 2008 programme highlights
Steve Day back for a third year; Ivor Dembina's Jewish/Palestinian comedy show; the unlisted show Anthology – daily story-telling from acts like Jo Caufield, Richard Herring, Scott Capuro; the reprise of highly regarded 'I Kissed A Frog And It Gave Me Herpes' from 2007; Alexis Dubas' 'Fine Sketchup' featuring top sketch acts from across the Fringe including if.comeddie nominees Pappy's Fun Club; The Late show at the Meadow Bar – true late night Fringe madness from 1am to 3am; ComedySportz – Family friendly improv.

I guess it's no longer too early

to say that I particularly hope people will turn out for the first "Anthology" of our Edinburgh run.

The show will run daily from the 31st through the 25th (except for the 11th) but, as we're not listed in the main Fringe programme, the first installment would strongly benefit from your attendance. (It's the first show of the day in our venue, so flyering won't kick in -- in terms of effectiveness -- until day 2.)

If.comedy best newcomer nominee (for Pappy's Fun Club) Matt Crosby will be our headliner that first day. He's done a lot of these and he's great.

"Anthology" features top comedians telling true stories from their lives without first turning them into set-ups and jokes. Jo Caulfield, Scott Capurro, Paul Sinha and many others will be appearing this year. The acts who've signed on are listed in a separate post on this page.

There are similar shows this year, all worth your while, but we're proud to have been first, at the Fringe since 2005.

Please send this post to others who may be interested.

Can't wait to see you (on the 31st or later in the run),
Andrew
(NYC)

Angels Wanted

Hi Everyone,

I'm finding that, even with it being in a free venue and all, this here Edinburgh summer production is costing me more than I got.

A couple of years ago, I put out a call for contributions (& it WORKED!) but I figured it would somehow be wrong to do it again. Then I saw that Richard Herring had set up an online Edinburgh fund for people to contribute to and I figured if someone who has an income can do it, I can too.

The show will be really good this year. (The line-up thus far is in the post below this one.) And if you want, I'll put contributors names in a simple program along with whatever message you want the public to see -- just send it to me.

Last time, I asked for $20/10 quid and I guess that seems like not so much to ask, but -- of course -- even a buck would be well-appreciated and useful. (Well, not if only one person sent it, but if a BUNCH of people . . . )

You can go to http://paypal.com and follow the instructions to send money an e-mail address. My address is andrewjlederer@gmail.com. (You can even use a credit card.)

And iff you have trouble, simply write to me and I'll make it all better.

Ooh. Actually, I just got a link from PayPal to an official Anthology donation page. (Here it is: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=andrewjlederer%40gmail%2ecom&item_name=Anthology%20in%20Edinburgh&no_shipping=0&no_note=1&tax=0&currency_code=USD&lc=US&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&charset=UTF%2d8) I hope it works.

Anyway, thanks for the extra help if you end of sending something. Otherwise, thanks for your normal, much-appreciated, support.

Feel free to forward this request to others if you think they'll care. (But not to embarrass me.)

Your loving producer and host,
Andrew