Building an Hour
Follow three comedians as they build their stand-up comedy hours, from first ideas and half-working bits to rewrites, doubts, and what actually survives on stage.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 1
- Latest publication
- Sep 15, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Sep 15, 2026
Latest episodes
Fringe Recap (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe, Colman, Chris and Mauricio unpack the highs, lows and general chaos of taking comedy to the festival. They compare the shows that worked, the rooms that fought back, the uniquely sneaky Scottish hecklers and the strange experience of trying to get noticed by agents. They also look at which jokes and ideas are worth carrying forward into their developing hours—including Reddit-inspired premises, dead people, dating and the uncomfortable discovery that the material
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.