Team Comedy Lounge

Weather update:
Thunder and lightning. What a lovely welcome.

This is the nicest flyer ever produced.

The day before the Fringe is set to begin. The city is quickly filling up with comedians. An overview of the state of Edinburgh:

- The weather is so bad that this morning, you couldn't see the Castle from Princes Street. It is known locally as Jack The Ripper weather.
- The electricity has currently failed on Queen Street, George Street and Rose Street - the three streets leading up to Princes Street, and some of the main thoroughfares in the city.
- Posters are appearing everywhere with gay abandon and, frighteningly, someone is already flyering for their show on a side street from where I work.
- Goths banned from Princes Street Gardens after a group were "seen kicking a bin".
- Christmas Decorations go on sale today as part of the infamous "Santa Wars".
- I think I just saw Wayne Sleep walking past The Assembly Rooms.

And if you don't believe us, here is our proof.

Also, there is a character in Sex and the City called Susan Sharon, proving that both our names are best.

Today I am so bored that I discovered that the twins in the Parent Trap are called Susan and Sharon. This has greatly amused me and I hope it brings as much joy into your dayas it has mine.

Today is my last Wednesday in the dump that some people like to call the Ro&al B*nk of Sco/land. I have not spotted any posters or anything to cheer me up and I remain bored out of my tiny mind with nothing to do. The edinburgh site is coming along very nicely and now I have discovered that I can post to the blog from work I shall endeavour to do so, if only to entertain myself.

Tomorrow is my leaving drinks at work so if I am in a state to recognise my computer when I get in tomorrow night I will try to leave some choice words on these very pages. BOOOOOOOOOORING!

I've just spotted my first Festival poster in town, and I'm very pleased to say that it's one (probably the only one) with a Comedy Lounge quote on it!!

It belongs to Nice Mum (who, on their links page, describe our site as "superb" and us as "charming"). I'm very impressed. They're probably up for some kind of Comedy Lounge Award now, I wouldn't wonder.

Hey! We're back on line!

After about seven temper tantrums, some choice swearing and a lot of chewing of nails, Susan has managed to pursuade her naughty computer to allow the new issue to go on line. And I think you'll find that, as everything is so darned out of date now, that just goes to show that it *was* all ready when we said it was, it's just that the computer wouldn't let us. How dare you have ever thought otherwise.

The Edinburgh issue is shaping up nicely, thanks for asking. We're working on a whole new feature for this year's Festival coverage, as we follow some acts around and ask them intrusive and personal questions on your behalf. The working title is currently "Edinburgh or Burst", and we think you know where we got our inspiration from. We're just finalising details with the acts involved, but we can reveal that we already have a Perrier Loser involved. Yes, that's right. Look impressed.

Weblogs. They seem like an hilarious idea when you decide to do them, and, gosh, it'll only take a moment of our time to write it up, but it can be one area of Comedy Lounge that's regularly updated, and will give people something else to look at and...

... what do you mean, it hasn't been updated since February?

Yes. We're lazy, and we know it. But we've made a new "It's July, let's get cracking on the Edinburgh edition then!" resolution, and this blog is getting the life breathed back into it, whether it wants to or not.

So what you need to do is to check back at this space for more regular updates about how our Festival preparation is shaping up. And come August time, we'll be updating this every single day as we let you know just what kind of kerrazy adventures we're finding ourselves having, thanks to our twin addictions of alcohol and comedy mixing together in one glorious month we like to call "The Fringe".

Susan's lost her job. Sharon - contrary to everything she stands by - hasn't lost her's. Anything could happen.