Friday, August 19, 2016
Where comedians once made the most of minority experiences, Fin Taylor, Brendon Burns and Peter White are three performers on this year's fringe digging into white privilege We're used to st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2016
Kate Norris and Sinead Parker sketch out the desperation of a quarter-life crisis in lurid performance and fine writingAll Edinburgh venues have their ghosts, and in the Pleasance Attic I'm …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe affable comic expertly blends comedy and commentary in a routine that snipes unpityingly at Britain's political classOne of the worst things about Brexit, s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AM[SHARE]Assembly George Square, EdinburghSweat-drenched Adam Drake teeters on the edge of chaos in a quickfire set of micro-sketches I've seen plenty of performers sweat on the Edinburgh fringe, but…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:58AM[SHARE]Stepping before an audience the size of a football team must make every comic's soul shrivel " and the experience is no less agonising for those watchingThere's no feeling quite like it. I a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghNick Mohammed's daft alter ego combines death-defying escapes with convention-shredding comedy in a show operating on several layers of reality Overlooked for a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27AM[SHARE]Gilded Balloon Teviot, EdinburghFrom Gordon Brown confusing LGBT and BLT to her 'conscious uncoupling' from Corbyn-era Labour, the former Whitehall insider reveals a political culture as amu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghTom Walker's Tory-blasting internet hit arrives on stage but there are precious few jokes in this deeply strange showWhat can it mean, that Jonathan Pie is one …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2016
Stand Comedy Club, EdinburghMore confident than last year's debut, Brady's show Male Comedienne focuses on what stripping taught her about feminism and female behaviour"What is this 'us girl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:14PM[SHARE]Dolphins on LSD, a comic symphony and an improbable family show about a school siege … our critics pick the top tickets of this year's fringeTankBreach Theatre's compelling look at gender …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 14, 2016
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFrom an inappropriate house-hunter to a slave-driving Willy Wonka, Phil Wang, George Fouracres and Jason Forbes are back with a fresh handful of bizarre skitsWe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 13, 2016
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghThe wily Zucker and lanky Venn flounce their way through an hour of whimsical routines, infusing everything with an irresistible pleasure and spirit of innocence…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AM[SHARE]Voodoo Rooms, EdinburghHodgson leads us through the missteps of his early love life accompanied by his musical spirit-guide in another warm and playful solo storytelling showNo comic act has…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:28AM[SHARE]Friday, August 12, 2016
Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh Puffing on a treadmill, the comic builds from his crazed inner monologue while out jogging to offer a lurid portrait of a consciousness in meltdown'Who is the re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:09AM[SHARE]Edinburgh Playhouse With riffs on the allure of Magic Mike and the horrors of marriage, the comic is on bleakly funny form " but the reflex cynicism lacks his usual subtletyLouis CK arrives …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2016
With alliances between standups increasingly common, relationship gags are entering a brave new era in which both parties get to air their dirty linen on stageAs comedy gets ever bigger, and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:56PM[SHARE]Edinburgh is hosting heaps of US comics including Bill Burr, Ari Shaffir and Mary Lynn Rajskub, star of TV's 24. Do they have much in common?"This is an American-style hour," says Ari Shaffi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:45PM[SHARE]Stand Comedy Club, Edinburgh The comedian ditched her planned show when the EU referendum shock gave her something better to dig into. The result is splenetic, alarming " and hilariousDeath …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PM[SHARE]Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Best Laid Plans finds the musical comedian in compellingly candid form as she tenderly pokes fun at life's serious disappointments You can tell something's in the a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThe New Jersey standup tackles his mental-health troubles in a comedy set that is dark, droll and displays considerable skillFor nine years, the New Jersey comic Chr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50PM[SHARE]The Canadian comic is at the Edinburgh fringe with his protest show about a joke that saw him ordered to pay $42,000. It's not a well-argued defenceMike Ward appears on his poster in a muzzl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:46AM[SHARE]Gilded Balloon, EdinburghWhether you've seen the TV show or not, there's still plenty to enjoy in the brusque humour of this slapdash stage version"I'm just laughing," a tittering Robert Flo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghThe Australian standup's sexist creation, Dave, is back in a multi-layered show that spoofs both chauvinism and clowning Zoë Coombs Marr made a splash last ye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:09AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Kettering standup delivers his unique brand of micro-observational comedy in an exquisitely written showMaybe it's to do with Brexit, but comics seem preocc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2016
Liquid Room, EdinburghIn an intimate and impressively confident show, the Danish comedian dissects the troubled feelings at play beneath her oddball exteriorThe Danish standup Sofie Hagen is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PM[SHARE]Traverse, EdinburghIt's easy to submit to Kitson's playfully showy writing in this piece about the tiny moments on which life hingesDaniel Kitson does Sliding Doors? Even if his shows didn't…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 7, 2016
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn her first solo standup show " I Was a Teenage Christian " Brand shares honest but shapeless stories about an adolescent fling with evangelical religionThe ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Daily Show correspondent makes a supremely confident fringe debut with a punchy, winning setMichelle Wolf: 'Four years of Donald Trump jokes will drive me i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:38AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 6, 2016
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe director of Gein's Family Giftshop uses her debut solo show to examine the 'women aren't funny' myth Related: Edinburgh festival 2016: what to see and where…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:15AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA revival of Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins' spoof of commercial radio " first heard on Radio 4 in 1980 " offers a jolly hour of familiar material and nostalgia R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AM[SHARE]Friday, August 5, 2016
At the fringe but not sure which tickets to book? Try one, two or all three of these theatre and comedy picks from our critics11.30am, Assembly George Square (until 29 August) Continue readi…
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