Friday, September 11, 2015
Veteran comic Bobby Ball has a new job teaching vicars how to be funny " but humour and religion don't always coexist comfortablyIf you want a crash course in how to be funny in front of a r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 8, 2015
UnderbellyAlfie Brown is opening himself up to ridicule " more even than the comedian's usual share. The 25-year-old has set himself up as a passionate critic of our cultural life, and of th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15AM[SHARE]'At the end of the show I'd just hide' … the actress-comedian's Edinburgh fringe hit lays bare her relationship anxieties with furious inventiveness and painful honestyThere's a fine tradi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32AM[SHARE]Get ready for comedy on a grand scale: Kevin Bridges is doing a mammoth Glasgow run, two huge double acts (Harry and Paul, Vic and Bob) return, and Sara Pascoe is reinventing ChristmasNinety…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 3, 2015
Soho theatre, LondonThe Australian comedian offers technically adept set-pieces and sends up his relentless misanthropy, but it takes a long time to go from snark to laughsComedy doesn't hav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:38AM[SHARE]Monday, August 31, 2015
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThe duo's latest multi-character show looks at what the (many) residents of Sudley-on-Sea do with their last moments on earth, in a richly enjoyable hour They've don…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:41AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 29, 2015
Australian standup takes prize for best comedy show at the fringe, while Sofie Hagen is named best newcomer and Karen Koren gets panel prizeEdinburgh comedy awards: explore all the past winn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 28, 2015
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe angular New Zealander has the audience in raptures with his wonky physical comedy " and a brilliantly inventive finaleThere's nothing new under the sun, the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]Stand Comedy Club, EdinburghEdgy material about liberal concerns " Bill Cosby, Ebola " lacks the confidence required for such a bloodless deliveryIf fans of The Daily Show are seeing anyone …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]Political comedy used be an orthodox, tub-thumping affair. Today, it's a far subtler art, with Nish Kumar, Sheeps, Stewart Lee and Ahir Shah all reinventing the form You can tell plenty abou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]Heroes @ The Hive, EdinburghThere are goofy set pieces aplenty in this exuberantly silly show in which Jones's alter ego, The Herbert, gets a 'proper job'From Mr Bean to Mr Tumble, there'll …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 27, 2015
Assembly George Square studios, EdinburghThe comedian's heartfelt story about the shark-infested waters of her teenage life sits uneasily with the truth, but this makes for a gripping experi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 26, 2015
The comedian's standout show Lance would be a worthy winner, if he can triumph over four-time nominee James Acaster and the inventive Joseph MorpurgoThe 35th Edinburgh comedy award nominees …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PM[SHARE]Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghLike a more manic Woody Allen, the funny standup lives out her anxieties onstage as she presents her unplanned family lifeChannel 4's hit sitcom Catastrophe feat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghJohn Henry Falle romances mermaids and roars through Beowulf in an enjoyable yet inconsistent performanceNominated this week for the Malcolm Hardee award for co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 25, 2015
She started at eight years old and is now the youngest comedian to appear on the funniest jokes of the fringe list. But she's taking fame and stardom in her strideGrace the Child is not taki…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:34PM[SHARE]Some of YouTube's comedy stars have had millions of hits, but performing on stage is a very different skill " and not all of them are up to the challengeIn any given year in Edinburgh, a new…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PM[SHARE]Stand Comedy Club, EdinburghScorn is scattered liberally in an engaging show that also lets slip a welcome peek at the charismatic entertainer underneath"I am a horrible person," says Fern B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:57PM[SHARE]Voodoo Rooms This show's bracing lack of sentiment finds a new and compelling angle on the 'dead dad' comedy tropeThe "dead dad" comedy show is now much mocked: it's seen as a cliche, and a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:16AM[SHARE]Monday, August 24, 2015
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThe droll meta-comedy duo explain what a funny sketch is " and have plenty of appealing examples of their ownMeta-comedy double act the Pin impressed on last year's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM[SHARE]The world's biggest comedy festival is an awkward place for Scottish comics to perform. I wish they'd give us more material tailored to their local audienceIs the fringe a Scottish festival?…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 23, 2015
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghLycett's scrapbook set of stories and pranks is consistently amusing and greatly enhanced by his playful, laidback mannerOnly on the fringe do you see the same …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02PM[SHARE]Comedian claims satirists are pulling their punches, teen comedy actor turns on the show that made him a star and Brian Conley Gets Out of thereFrankie Boyle is back in the headlines, after …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:52AM[SHARE]Friday, August 21, 2015
Liquid Room, EdinburghAn interactive golden-age detective movie is created on stage with Deanna Fleysher's alter-ego Kapinski leaning heavily on the audience for laughsA gumshoe in a mac and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 20, 2015
Comedians rarely repeat material by their peers. But plenty of comics are referencing each other at this year's fringe " for good and illComedy has no equivalent to the cover version; comics…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Australian comedian's experiences of anxiety, depression and irritable bowel syndrome are turned to fine comic use in this confident, fast-paced show"I love…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AM[SHARE]Voodoo Rooms, EdinburghHodgson draws on youthful memories, the rise and fall of Lance Armstrong and northern characters for plentiful laughs and bittersweet sentimentJust do it, cyclist Lanc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Assembly Roxy, EdinburghThe US duo deliver several very funny moments but their show that is let down by its disjointed characters and hard-to-follow plotlineShenoah Allen has created many a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PM[SHARE]Pleasance Grand, EdinburghTwenty standups and wrestlers clamber into the ring and smack down in Max and Ivan's spectacular sporting-panto free-for-all "Comedians. Wrestlers. Blood." It's a p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:01AM[SHARE]The perception of the festival crowd as entirely middle-class leads standups such as Sarah Callaghan and Kevin J to package their working-class backgrounds as exoticIt's a cliche that the Ed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghBulletproof set-pieces exploring the theme of cultural identity confirm this Bostonian as a talent to watchAlex Edelman won the best newcomer gong at last year'…
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