Friday, August 12, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAdam Meggido's play finds the teenage Johnson starring in Shakespeare's tragedy and gives a taste of his future leadership
Out of his depth as a tragedy unfolds…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2022
Assembly George Square, EdinburghDebut show directed by Jordan Brookes sees Will Rowland and Eddy Hare deliver a familiar odd-couple turn with freshness
"The UK's lowest energy double act," …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghBrokentalkers theatre company and feminist comic Adrienne Truscott joyfully burlesque the ugliness of machismo in art and in life
The great male artist may soon be o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PM[SHARE]Stand New Town theatre, EdinburghMaking her fringe standup debut after blazing a trail through modelling and activism, Olumide has some promising material but it fails to come together
Fashi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn her show The Woman's Hour, the viral comedy star offers caricatures of burbling backbenchers and a woke-bashing TV host
In the darkness of our political mome…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07PM[SHARE]Monkey Barrel, EdinburghWith cartoonish flair, the likable comic " one half of sketch duo The Delightful Sausage " revels in the repeated indignity of being ditched for someone else
The Girl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07PM[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2022
The former PM's one-off onstage chat with standup Matt Forde belied his dour image. If only he'd shown more of this side of himself to the electorate
Where is the comedy, Matt Forde, in this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PM[SHARE]Assembly Rooms, EdinburghWith Lap of Shame, the comic delivers a set of breathtakingly rude jokes and thought-provoking ghastliness
A friend of Frankie Boyle's, he tells us, stopped watching…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Childhood friends and LOL Word affiliates Rachel WD and Ruby Clyde leave no assumption unturned with their deft wit and breezy musical interplay
A venerable tr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Stand Comedy Club, EdinburghThe standup delivers a compelling show that reflects on his Strictly Come Dancing notoriety and harsh childhood experiences
Many may struggle to sympathise " far…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 7, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghSikisa Bostwick-Barnes's ebullience carries her through a debut solo show that's punctuated with dance breaks
You can see why Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes themed her …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 6, 2022
Underbelly Bristo Square, EdinburghMilo McCabe's matinee-idol character initially feels at odds with his material, but it's hard not to be won over by his enthusiasm
Milo McCabe performed as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghReich's flouncing, self-obsessed comedy is a brittle skewering of irony and anxiety " and a must-see
One of countless acts this fringe whose Covid-delayed debut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PM[SHARE]Friday, July 22, 2022
In his Edinburgh fringe show Flying High the impressionist wants to convey the warmth and affection of the comic and Blankety Blank host
Who knew, growing up in the 70s and 80s, that we were…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Monday, July 18, 2022
Canal Cafe theatre, LondonThis high-energy hour of songs and sketches includes a Conservative leadership medley from The Greatest Showman and Boris Johnson's Jailhouse Rock
In the 43 years s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Underbelly festival, LondonThe acrobatic feats of Jarred Dewey go some way to redeem a show that's way too high on cliches and exposed buttocks
Enough buttock already! It's not a sentiment o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 10, 2022
Soho theatre, LondonArmed with cherry tomatoes, paper boats and a leaf-blower, Julia Masli, Viggo Venn and Sami Abu Wardeh brought the London clown festival to an uproarious close
'I hate cl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 7, 2022
Oxford PlayhouseThere are some low-wattage anecdotes in this set but the standup delivers gags about farting and haemorrhoids with an undeniable vitality
There are seven signs of ageing, acc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Phil Wang makes a heroic return, Ian McKellen stars in a balletic Hamlet and Sophie Duker is gleefully carefree. Here are our picks of the festival's comedy, theatre and dance
20 great Edin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Soho theatre, LondonAt a crisis point for his country, Kielty's 'module on borders' is warm and engaging, though his even-handedness dims some of the laughter
"A comedian shouldn't be gettin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Standup Joe Lycett has revealed that he was reported to police for one of his routines. From Sacha Baron Cohen to Jo Brand, our writer looks at what happens when laughter and the law collide…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 26, 2022
Conway Hall, LondonMcGlade pours his heart and soul into the show but his picture of a golden age of working-class racial harmony is a stretch
When Soho theatre declined to re-book Chris McG…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 23, 2022
Soho theatre, LondonThe comedian's troubled relationship with his 'alpha dad' is under scrutiny in this enjoyable show of (mostly) new material
There's a choice joke, midway through Travis …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM[SHARE]Monday, June 20, 2022
Leicester Square theatre, LondonEngaging, blokey, old-school standup about domesticity, parenthood and the frustrations of modern life is mixed with material specific to the scouse joker's l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Friday, June 17, 2022
Soho theatre, LondonMalign males on the dating scene are the focus of this heartfelt set, with keep-fit fans, activists and men who claim to be feminists also under the microscope
Hot on the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2022
Soho theatre, LondonA delightfully silly but sneakily serious take on hook-up culture and its collateral damage, with bonus standup sets
Comedy show or treatment programme? Mary Beth Barone'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 12, 2022
Barbican, LondonThe veteran film-maker is on fine form in this motor-mouthed show, which mixes slick anecdotes with gleeful transgression
Common as it now is for well-loved figures to bring …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2022
In the first of our festival previews, we round up some of the best offerings we've already reviewed " including Tim Key, Liz Kingsman, La Clique and Hungry
This searing, sweaty disco is a h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2022
A series that promises to expose the offstage antics of comics including Seann Walsh and Jimmy Carr gets off to a slick and intriguing start
Is there anything connected to comedians that TV …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Soho theatre, LondonThe comedian's latest show is quarried from the darker subsoil of a disturbed soul, delivered by a man whose warmest smile still stirs a tincture of unease
It's quite the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Much of the leftover material from Burnham's twisted Netflix special sparkles as brightly as the original
A year after the release of his Netflix special Inside " by any measure, one of the…
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