Edinburgh comedy notebook: why are chatshows so popular with audiences?
The Edinburgh fringe is renowned for craft and originality, so where's the allure of watching sofa surfers talk to each other?There are a record-breaking 500-plus shows on the fringe this year, and you could be forgiven for thinking this remarkable growth is almost exclusively due to the mushrooming number of chatshows. They've always been a sideshow of the fringe " my favourite of recent years was the US comic and f…