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Critics bristle at comedian's Hitler 'tache.


COMIC Richard Herring is the latest act to cause outrage on the Fringe On The Fringe is a popular Pakistani television show on Indus Music. It is hosted and scripted by the eccentric television host and music critic, Fasi Zaka and directed by Zeeshan Pervez. . He says sporting a Hitler moustache in his act at the Underbelly will reclaim the toothbrush style for comedy after the Nazi leader stole it from Charlie Chaplin. But he has been accused of blundering through comedy borders into racist territory. It is only one of many controversies to hit the Edinburgh Fringe 62 years after eight theatre groups turned up at the first Edinburgh Festival uninvited un·in·vit·ed  
adj.
Not welcome or wanted: uninvited guests.


uninvited
Adjective

not having been asked: uninvited guests

 and began finding their own venues to perform. Here, CRAIG McQUEEN looks at some of the unlikeliest.

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Publication:Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date:Aug 2, 2009
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