The 2006 Fringe (Jimmy’s 6th as a solo artist) was from August 6th to 28th and, this year, Jimmy took his Gag Reflex tour there.
He played 6 nights at the EICC (Edinburgh International Conference Centre) on the 17th-19th and 24th-26th. His shows started at 9.30pm and were advertised as being 1 hour and 10 minutes. Tickets £14 with concessions at £12.
The fire alarm went off at one of the shows and the joke he made, during evacuation, made it into the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (see here).
Written and performed by: Jimmy Carr
Jimmy’s ad says:
One of comedy’s biggest faces (in every sense) and star of 8/19 cats returns to Edinburgh to do what he does best live onstage. No under-16s unless they have an ASBO, in which case f**k it.
In July he’d been performing gigs on his tour Off The Telly but, by August 5th, was booking WIP gigs (Work in Progress) at the 50-ish seater Hen and Chickens Theatre (Gag Reflex material try-outs).
In a reference back to Comedy Idol (on Jimmy’s 2005 Stand Up DVD) we have an ad for Doktor Cocacolamcdonalds Explains All! With the tag “As seen singing in his underpants on Jimmy Carr’s latest DVD!”.
On the 27th August Jimmy dropped in on the Edinburgh International Television Festival and also the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Both of these events were on the EICC campus.
The 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Programme can be viewed here.
Below are some of the comedians that performed that year (in the order that I spotted their names in the programme). Where the show name was mentioned – it’s in brackets. Feels like the list is getting longer each year.
- Adam Hills (Characterful)
- Jim Jefferies (The Second Coming)
- Nick Mohammed (the Forer Factor)
- Alun Cochrane (Introducing an Introduction to Alun Cochrane’s Imagination)
- Andrew Maxwell (‘round Twilight)
- Andrew Maxwell (Maxwell’s Fullmooners)
- Andy Parsons (International Indoor Championship Moaning)
- Bill Bailey
- Rhod Gilbert (Knocking on Heaven’s Door)
- Danny Bhoy
- Bridget Christie (The Cheese Roll)
- Dylan Moran (Like, totally…)
- Dara O’Briain (Dara O’Briain at the Fringe)
- David O’Doherty (David O’Doherty is My Name)
- John Oliver & Andy Zaltzman (Detonate 70 Minutes of Unbridled Afternoon)
- Dominic Holland (Dominic Holland Stands Up)
- Rich Hall
- Ed Byrne (Standing Up and Falling Down)
- Frankie Boyle & Andy Parsons
- Frankie Boyle (The Voice of Black America)
- Fred MacAulay (The Fred MacAulay Show)
- Geoff Norcott (Professional Teenager)
- Kerry Godliman & David Lane (Godliman & Lane)
- Tim Brooke-Taylor & Graeme Garden (Live on Stage – The Goodies Still Rule OK!)
- Tony Robinson (Tony Robinson’s Cunning Night Out)
- Tim Minchin (So Rock)
- Sue Perkins
- Janey Godley (Janey Godley’s Blog – live)
- Stephen K Amos (All Of Me)
- Jimmy Carr (Gag Reflex)
- Josie Long (Kindness & Exuberance)
- Sarah Kendall
- Shappi Khorsandi (Asylum Speaker)
- Andrew Lawrence (How To Butcher Your Loved Ones)
- Lucy Porter (The Good Life)
- Mark Olver (Happy Accidentally)
- Mark Watson (I’m Worried That I’m Starting to Hate Almost Everyone In The World)
- Mark Watson (Mark Watson and His Audience Write a Novel)
- Mark Watson (Mark Watson’s Seemingly Impossible 35-hour Circuit of the World)
- Michael McIntyre (Michael McIntyre: An Evening With)
- Russell Kane (The Theory of Pretension)
- Richard Herring (Ménage a Un)
- Reginald D Hunter (Pride & Prejudice & N****s)
- Paul Merton (Paul Merton’s Impro Chums)
- Paul Merton (Paul Merton’s Silent Clowns)
- Robin Ince (Robin Ince Isn’t Waving)
- Russell Brand (Shame)
- Russell Howard (Wandering)
- Sam Simmons (Sam Simmons’ Tales From the Erotic Cat)
- Scott Capurro (Yankee Dog-Pig)
- Shazia Mirza (Fun!)
- Simon Brodkin (Everyone But Himself)
- Jason Byrne (Sheep for Feet and Rams for Hands)
- Greg Davies, Steve Hall and Marek Larwood (We Are Klang invite you to a KlangBang)
- Tom Stade (And Relax…)
The Comedy Zone (Pleasance Courtyard) advertises a “stand up showcase” with:
- Dan Atkinson
- Lloyd Langford
- Janice Phayre
- Jon Richardson
On the 16th August there was an Amnesty fundraiser (Stand Up for Freedom)
- Ed Byrne
- Boothby Graffoe
- Lucy Porter
Leave a Reply