Saturday, August 26, 2017
Relationship breakdown and homophobia in Australia pick up a prize " or two " for John Robins and Hannah GadsbyThe longest ever shortlist. The first ever joint winners. And clearly, the most…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PM[SHARE]Friday, August 25, 2017
Heroes @ Monkey Barrel, EdinburghThe laughs keep coming in The Audition, a ramshackle tale of Steven Spielberg, talking robots and a bank-robbing fishThere aren't many ways that a Spencer Jo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]A new wave of comedians probing faults in leftwing politics provoke a crucial debate, but does their exaggerated antagonism hamper the cause?Identity politics has gone too far. PC has gone m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Underbelly Med Quad, EdinburghWith a parrot costume, Jacques Brel songs and silly set pieces, Lyons dreams up an almost aggressively winsome hour of complete nonsenseIs it comedy, or a spiri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 24, 2017
Some people are angry that Channel 4 is developing Hungry, a comedy set in one of Ireland's darkest times. But don't judge a script before it's writtenThe idea dies hard that comedy automati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghYou seldom know exactly what's happening in this set as our host prowls the room, eyeballs the audience and wreaks confusionIs the comedy world big enough for a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PM[SHARE]Laughing Horse @ City Cafe, EdinburghIn a likable and thoughtful set, the Canadian standup revisits her adolescence and explores the affinities between relationships and recreational drugsYo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn a cracking show, Branded, Willan has an easy rapport with the audience as she interrogates her identity as a northern, female, working-class comedian Norther…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire, EdinburghThe astute standup drills into the divided, dysfunctional state of our world in a combative hour of coruscating comedy "I'm left, I'm liberal and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Monday, August 21, 2017
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFans have flocked to hear him spill the beans on the islanders, but instead we get some sharply expressed though extremely familiar standup materialEdinburgh na…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghEthnicity and empire are tricky subjects, but not for someone living the immigrant dream and riffing on race with a childlike glee'I finally became a man this y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 19, 2017
Assembly George Square, EdinburghComedy proves inadequate consolation for battling the patriarchy in the Tasmanian standup's uncomfortable but indelible swansong Hannah Gadsby's extraordinar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Friday, August 18, 2017
Heroes @ Monkey BarrelThe comedian's inspired mashup of Evil Dead 2 and Elvis songs is much juicier than an ironic stunt'This was only ever supposed to amuse me and my mates," says Rob Kemp …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 17, 2017
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Pointing's egocentric creep Cayden Hunter and his spoof acting masterclass is mesmerisingly ghastly and deliciously daft Towards the end of last summer's Edinb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM[SHARE]Trygve Wakenshaw has brought his one-year-old son as a sidekick, Flo and Joan search for love and Giants present the old disintegrating duo routineFor as long as there's been comedy, there's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 16, 2017
She may be one of the favourites for this year's Edinburgh Comedy awards, but Hannah Gadsby is about to call time on her career. Here, Gadsby, Patrick Marber, Natalie Haynes and Simon Fansha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe standup provides near-constant laughs in a startlingly honest, high-powered show that spares no one " least of all himselfCan things get any worse for John …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Six of the best from Edinburgh including Mat Ewins' barrage of one-liners, a German teacher placement at a secondary school and a transgender journey Pleasance Courtyard Building on the succ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Monday, August 14, 2017
Summerhall, Edinburgh The political comic mixes debate about Britain's future with confessional memoir in an odd hybrid that solicits contributions from the crowdMark Thomas has called this …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PM[SHARE]Scott Gibson returns to the fringe after winning the best newcomer award in 2016. Can Scotland's comedians triumph again this time?Fringe history was made last year when, for the first time,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe trio play depressed, maladroit losers with absolutely straight faces, and give an object lesson in offbeat humourMaking a virtue out of necessity, I'd call …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 13, 2017
Assembly Rooms, EdinburghThe former first minister of Scotland and ex-MP has been promising a political kiss and tell, but he fails to deliver the goodsWhen the former first minister of Scot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PM[SHARE]Heroes @ The Hive, EdinburghRunning against the prevailing trend for sincerity in comedy, Mat Ewins' Indiana Jones-inspired show is a paean to daftness, fabrication and windups, with a terri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AM[SHARE]Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghNot every audience member press-ganged into taking part in the Australian's sketches has the confidence to keep up with a stellar performerTricky business, this …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AM[SHARE]Friday, August 11, 2017
Pleasance CourtyardPritchard-McLean's debut about sexism was good. Her new show, Appropriate Adult, which touches on millennial angst and her volunteer work, is even betterEven at a festival…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2017
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghJohns was ready to quit standup until Ken Loach came calling. His fringe return is full of humility and unpretentious good humourCinderella can't touch this. Two yea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 9, 2017
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]Underbelly Med Quad, EdinburghThe standup is strongest when she eviscerates cultural cliches in this nervy but promising fringe debutAditi Mittal's recent Radio 4 show was called A Beginner'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Guildhall, Portsmouth"The most excruciating moment of my career," Frankie Boyle is said to have called it. But if he's embarrassed by his confrontation with a woman upset by his jokes about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]EICC, EdinburghThe cackling peddler of brutal jokes about the most sensitive subjects is not for the faint-hearted, but his new standup show is relentlessly funnyIf you thought Frankie Boyle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh The outrageous standup turns a story of lifelong loneliness into an irresistible hymn to self-realisationElsewhere at the Edinburgh fringe, Rose Matafeo uses r…
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