Edinburgh comedy notebook: What counts as comedy?
When it covers anything from standup to striptease, isn't it time the Edinburgh Comedy awards introduced some categories?Thirty-one shows into the Fringe and I find myself asking the same old question that crops up every year: how can the Edinburgh Comedy awards even begin to compare the mad and glorious variety of art forms that are lumped together in the section of the programme titled "comedy"?To be eligible for t…