How Edinburgh standups are dealing with the riots
Standups in Edinburgh are working the unrest into their routines. But is it too soon to use such material for laughs? Stephanie Merritt reports from the fringeThe fringe is a kind of bubble. The concerns of the wider world can seem very far off: when you hear someone talking about a "disaster", you assume they mean the ticketing system at the Pleasance is broken. But by the start of this week, a number of the mo…