Sunday, September 21, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonThe standup has some effective material about the usual middle-aged gripes, but never quite coalesces these scattershot routines into a well-rounded whole
Nobody ever lis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2025
As the show based on their cult TV hit goes on the road, the duo discuss haunted theatres, feeling like arthritic swans and what it was like being mobbed in Shanghai
How do you make a shoppi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonThe US comic and TV writer's account of his military service in Iraq is exuberant, enlightening, and flies the flag for the plight of veterans
At one point in Bill Posley…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 28, 2025
Andrea Riseborough and Sarandon deliver a decade-hopping drama, superstar standups hit the road and Shobana Jeyasingh rewrites Shakespeare
' See the rest of our unmissable autumn arts previe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2025
The comic was determined to make a blockbuster standup show that didn't address trans issues. Then she changed her mind " and scooped comedy's biggest prize
There's efficiency, then there's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWith one book of classic gags and another that brings him shame, Moore delivers a show that's heavy on the laughs if light on the charm
Glenn Moore has a device…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Londoner delves into more personal territory in his new show, including the story of his heart failure while on stage several years ago
Emmanuel Sonubi has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 24, 2025
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghJay makes big concepts provocatively funny in an eye-catching set nominated for the Edinburgh comedy award
In We the People, Sam Jay talks politics and culture …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 23, 2025
Playful set about Nicoresti's life as a trans woman wins main award, with Ayoade Bamgboye named best newcomer
The Edinburgh comedy award, the annual "Oscar of comedy" given to the best show …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghOddball songs, surreal asides and a glorious persona combine in a show that reflects on the standup's late father
Since childhood, Katie Norris has been called …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54AM[SHARE]Friday, August 22, 2025
Monkey Barrel, the Hive, EdinburghThe Edinburgh comedy award nominee ambles through tales of debt, chicken shops and his eccentric grandad in a show that's loose but brimming with intelligen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFrom a nude life-drawing class to a Colombian kidnapping, with help from his Ghosts co-star Lolly Adefope, Smith-Bynoe uses audience members' stories to comic e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 21, 2025
Monkey Barrel, EdinburghThe Mancunian manchild shows wild commitment in a show about dyspraxia, drug use and internalised homophobia
We say we want men to talk about their mental health, Dan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PM[SHARE]Church Hill theatre, EdinburghA furious and unsettling Shakespeare reboot exposes colonial violence and demands accountability for crimes against Indigenous people
'Aren't you sorry you forc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA wickedly amusing fringe debut considers the relationship between comedy, feminism and sexiness
Can you be funny and good-looking? You'd think the question bar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAt 34, the comedian has ditched the shy self-abasement for diss tracks and politics " even if his set is inspired by his fondness for orange
With Orange Crush, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PM[SHARE]Monkey Barrel, EdinburghIn an uneven show, one of the most intriguing comic voices of his generation tackles sex, race and British identity
'I used to be a cool young comic with cool young f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PM[SHARE]Seven of the eight nominees for best show have not previously been nominated in the same category at the 'Oscars of live comedy'
Standup about infertility, jokes about a Georgian gourmand, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PM[SHARE]Oasis's tour gobbled up Edinburgh audiences while fringe comics put on shows about Britpop and Arctic Monkeys. The music industry and the funny business could be more entwined than ever
'Com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe slick standup's fringe debut is full of searching questions about the right to keep and bear arms
'I've got a gun." Nice to be pitched, with that opening li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32PM[SHARE]Monkey Barrel, EdinburghThe standup's tale of teenage travails, guilt and redemption borders on the sentimental but gets the balance right
There's trauma comedy, finding laughter in the very…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PM[SHARE]Pleasance Dome, EdinburghPity poor Batilda Bigbum as she navigates a failed courtship and flight to a nunnery, before being burnt as a witch in this uproarious comedy
One of the great charac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2025
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghIn an eyebrow-raising debut, Galvo shares not very fond memories of her education in Ireland
Rachel Galvo ditched a career in business a few years back, fleeing Dubl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32PM[SHARE]Monkey Barrel, EdinburghZero per cent alcohol? Ghosting? ADHD? Our self-flagellating host has a skewed take on them all
You could write theses on comedy's relationship with social maladjust…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 17, 2025
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe New York foursome's freewheeling logic will have you laughing without knowing why in a fringe debut that's smart enough to revitalise sketch comedy
With ske…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghDrawing on her experiences moving from Nigeria to the UK, this livewire standup delivers a multifaceted first fringe show
The fringe is nothing if not a place w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Monkey Barrel at The Hive, EdinburghThe standup follows a first half of in-your-face jokes about American democracy with a palpably painful account of the loss of her mother
Standup shows ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 16, 2025
Summerhall, EdinburghFrom existential angst to dotty monk routines, US clown John Norris marches to the beat of his own drum
With his show and persona Mr Chonkers, American clown John Norris…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghDelivered with self-deprecating joyfulness, this is a big-hitting set exploring life as a trans woman
'Sir, are you aware those are women's clothes?" Even the m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2025
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghCandid family snapshots meet leftist politics and wondrous prehistoric megafauna in Long's singular take on the state of the world
'The old world is dying, and the n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe sometime Mr Swallow sidekick's hour of interiors improv is a skilful, unshowy treat
'Shall we give ourselves a night off from being funny?" There are unassu…
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