Saturday, August 9, 2014
Underbelly Bristo Square, EdinburghThere's a lot of love in the room as the Whose Line Is It ? old-timers breeze through an extended version of the TV format Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:17AM[SHARE]Edinburgh festival comedians perform their own material, then swap with a counterpart in this appallingly funny innovation Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:35AM[SHARE]Friday, August 8, 2014
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghWith digs at her famous dad, Cleese's LA gold-digger persona stays provocatively on the right side of caricature Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Confronting race and his own pessimism and neuroses, the standup's rapid-fire set explores how we live now Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 7, 2014
From solo shows to improv and double acts why Lloyd is the face and the future of the fringe Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Daykin's tour Stephen King territory with this somewhat OTT sketch comedy about psychosis and sisterly resentment Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:22AM[SHARE]Pleasance Dome, EdinburghNick Mohammed's excitable alter ego stages a musical version of Dracula that is pure knockabout fun Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Stand Comedy Club, EdinburghChristie shines with a new standup show that marries clownish self-satire with a passionate feminist call to arms Mark Lawson: Bridget Christie's Edinburgh fringe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AM[SHARE]International standups performed at an Edinburgh fringe gig compered by Izzard but the language barrier and cultural differences compromised their sets Où est le punchline? Standup in a s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis sprightly hour from the ex-Footlights twosome threatens, before falling a little short, to be very good indeed Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 5, 2014
At Edinburgh, newsworthiness and cultural clout get mashed together. Sometimes it works. For Joshua Ladgrove's thinner-than-thin imitation of Christ, it doesn't Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:55AM[SHARE]Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThe standup spices his story of moving east and teaching himself Mandarin with breathless skits about his job as a greeter and his appearance on the Chinese Take Me …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AM[SHARE]Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThe incongruous leftwing revolutionaries are back with a meek but musically inspired set Jonny and the Baptists v Ukip: aren't there better targets to lampoon? Conti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2014
There's a predictable clash of sensitivities at Davidson's Edinburgh show at the Assembly Hall Review of Jim Davidson's Edinburgh show by Brian Logan Jim Davidson's Edinburgh fringe debut 'r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PM[SHARE]Is Liam Williams the voice of austere, embittered Britain? Brian Logan meets 'the Philip Larkin of comedy' as his angry new show Capitalism hits the Edinburgh festival Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29PM[SHARE]Long's show about growing older is authentic, revealing and generous of spirit but she still finds the space to mime attacking Nigel Farage with marshmallows Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 3, 2014
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAn endearing Beaumont makes her festival debut with a comedy routine that relies on homely tales and dizzy observations Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAn endearing Beaumont makes her festival debut with a comedy routine that relies on homely tales and dizzy observations' Lucy Beaumont: are northerners funnier …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AM[SHARE]Assembly Hall, EdinburghDavidson once again defies good taste with a lurid, leering standup routine mainly about "fat birds", fannies and knobs Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AM[SHARE]Underbelly, EdinburghNew Zealander Trygve Wakenshaw, of Squidboy cult fame, takes a skilful tour of an imaginary shape-shifting world Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 2, 2014
Laughing Horse at the Counting House, EdinburghOmielan balances a sense of her own ridiculousness with heart-and-soul ardour in a standup act thats unlike anything else comedy has to offer C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 31, 2014
Soho theatre, LondonThe American entertains with wind-up one-liners about paedophilia and serial killing, but his noxious pay-offs are surprisingly funny Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AM[SHARE]Friday, July 25, 2014
Increasingly, big-name comedians are swapping the usual standup format for something that seems more intimate, honest and a bit of a get-out Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 24, 2014
Shepherd's Bush Empire, LondonDarby's loser act keeps him and us smiling, but some trimming of his silly storytelling would make this show a winner Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Monty Python Live (Mostly) massages a G-spot of familiarity with little truly funny live material we're left with a few comfortable laughs and a true sentimental charge Monty Python reviews…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2014
How will Luisa Omielan follow up last year's triumph? Who will be this year's Bridget Christie? Here are the acts to watch out forThe comedy website Chortle reported this week on "a har…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:56AM[SHARE]Little Angel theatre, LondonThe much-loved Disney songs aren't missed in this one-woman performance of Rudyard Kipling's taleMy daughter does a fine line in misheard song lyrics, and one of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:44AM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2014
Hammersmith Apollo, London There's too much talk and too few new tricks amid the fire-breathing, bottle-juggling virtuosity That's not magic: Penn, Teller and Derren Brown reveal all (or do …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38AM[SHARE]Monday, June 16, 2014
The City of London festival will focus on late-night humour let's hope it brings an end to comedians' silence on the banking crisisIt's so old, no one can say how and when it came into bein…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:10AM[SHARE]Friday, June 13, 2014
Soho theatre, LondonAt its best, the show simply spreads the pleasure Hall and his band take in the songs, and in one another's companyThe songs are often the best part of Rich Hall's standu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2014
Soho theatre, LondonRahman's flippancy deficit flouts standup convention and his approach to racial politics is both outspoken and unsentimental How Aamer Rahman's 'reverse racism' joke save…
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