Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh In this winning pastiche set at a gender reveal party, Doherty plays a monstrous estate agent battling occult forces
Come to a show called Gay Witch Sex Cult, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]One standup asks moral questions about her family's post-Soviet wealth, the other uses a self-satisfied persona to survey his gilded lifestyle. Both strike comedy gold at Edinburgh fringe
At…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2024
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghThe Mancunian's sophomore fringe set, addressing his diagnosis of gout, is delivered with feral roars and fine one-liners
In these days of intensely autobiogra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]With a seaside-postcard sensibility, the standup delivers racist and sexist material that jars with the spirit of the fringe
As if we didn't know to expect old-fashioned from Bobby Davro, th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 18, 2024
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe standup weaves real-world experiences of racism with whimsy about angler fish and joining the yakuza
There are few things more tedious, they say, than liste…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Summerhall, Edinburgh Exploring coercive relationships, Laura Horton's play features three middle-aged women in 'snazzy cardigans' performing a real-time maiden gig
'This next song is called…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 17, 2024
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghGeorge Fouracres portrays the impresario as a haughty squire, while the comedy duo play keyboard and drums
'Is this show a legal minefield? Yes it is. But on we go."…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn what they bill as their farewell to the fringe, the sketch group address woke-phobic dads, the apocalypse and AI in typically rich and wild style
A standup c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghTV success has only sharpened the Starstruck creator's punches as she overshares about the indignities of dating, her fine gags closer to the bleeding edge than…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 16, 2024
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Dressed as the publisher's emblem, in orange flippers and not much else, the ingenious comic delivers a dizzy series of droll visual routines
Some shows have "…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2024
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghThe Massive Dad star riffs on the benefits of making comedy online, buoyed by arch good humour and high-quality gags within gags
Stevie Martin's show weighs up…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Australian comedian's rocky 2023 is explored in PowerPoint, SMS exchanges, rap, musical comedy and online videos
The year 2023 was the worst of Lou Wall's l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:01PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe irrepressible aesthete, and lapsed primary school teacher, underwent medical trials to fund this effervescent show " and has since been hospitalised
There's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Witnessing 9/11 from school as a six-year-old is one of many mental distresses recounted in the New York comic's often piercingly bleak set
Whenever you think …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:10AM[SHARE]Monday, August 12, 2024
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe American standup and sitcom writer delivers a show of ticklish suspense that somersaults with invention and surprise
Not all comedy shows need weighty theme…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PM[SHARE]Standup Olga Koch, whose dad was once the deputy prime minister of Russia, is weighing in on the debate about class and wealth in the industry in an unusual way " by addressing it head-on
No…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe straight-talking comic's debut hour is cheerfully rude and glowing with maternal love, as she describes parenting a son with autism
At a festival with 3,600…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:25AM[SHARE]Or What's Left of Us by Sh!t Theatre is a playful and starkly profound hour in which the duo share their bereavements and stir reflections of our own
When someone you love dies, the grief ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 11, 2024
Monkey Barrel Comedy, Edinburgh Armed with spreadsheets and her usual playfulness, the comic attempts to evaluate the worth of her life so far
Has autobiographical comedy reached its apotheo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AM[SHARE]Just the Tonic at the Caves, EdinburghBrown engages in good faith with questions of guilt and remorse, while perceiving bad faith in his critics' responses to an old routine that included th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:52AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard , EdinburghMaking her fringe debut, the comic performs a droll, unsentimental and occasionally heart-stopping pas de deux with the critical voice in her head
Hannah Platt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 10, 2024
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghRapunzel, Hansel and Gretel and a lot of toilet roll feature as the star Disney+ comedy Extraordinary explores wishes and their fulfilment
All very well being part o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 9, 2024
Pleasance @ EICC, Edinburgh There's more Margolyes than Dickens here, but her gift for florid characters is on fine display and suits the Victorian master perfectly
"Guaranteed to offend and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AM[SHARE]A crowing flash-in-the-pan PM and Jimmy Carr's life lessons from the Oompa Loompas
A tale of two powerful women as the Edinburgh fringe enters its opening week. Nica Burns is a West End prod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2024
Traverse, EdinburghPlaying both partners in a sordid three-year relationship, the bold LA clown delivers another unforgettable show
Few fringe trajectories have been as joyful to trace these…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Bebe Cave dazzles in a slightly overstuffed monologue about fame, sexism and power in Tinseltown
'A person waiting to be asked to pretend to be a person." It d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM[SHARE]Assembly George Square, EdinburghShe was chewed up and spat out by the US, but now the TikTok sensation gets to tell her story in this slick production
With her TikTok series a smash during …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:45AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Texan comedian delivers a playful show about a holiday from hell that tackles mental health and wokeness
It is rare for an act to firmly establish themselve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghA show about unresolved masculinity combines elements of musical theatre with the experimental comic's own ruminations on ego and oblivion
If you were picking a come…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00PM[SHARE]Children's author, YouTuber, 'sausage bird' designer … the comic who was born Derek Chickpeas (maybe) talks about cooking up his hilariously daft alter ego " and we pick some of his funnie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2024
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh This tremendous solo debut finds the comic veering between stranger-than-fiction verisimilitude and hilarious gothic exaggeration
'Childless cat ladies" have b…
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