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Baby Lasagna, aka Croatian singer Marko Purišic, was to be my last review of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025. Unfortunately, Baby Lasagna didn’t get the…

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“In 2015, Matty Grey, kids’ comedian, accidentally insulted a child in passing at the Edinburgh Fringe. What happened next would see the brief interaction go…

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