If a stand-up show concludes with an impassioned yell of the phrase ‘women’s rights are worth farting for’, chances are you’re not in the company of a normal stand-up.
A magic show is fundamentally different from most other shows – because the success of the show is based on how much trickery can be covered up from the audience, rather than how…
The best moments in Cardinal Burns’ victory lap run of six dates at the Fringe are when the duo ditch any notion of their characters resembling people in the real world and, a la…
This comedy show is about the Israel-Palestine conflict and lasts for two hours.
Rhys Darby is under no illusions as to why many of his audience will have turned up.
If most people had a time machine, it’s unlikely their first choice of destination would be Truro in 1987.
‘You’re a funny crowd tonight aren’t you? For the first ten minutes I was sure this gig had bombed’.
After winning last year’s Edinburgh Comedy Award, Russell Kane’s marriage fell apart, he had a breakdown, and didn’t perform for a considerable part of the year.
The idea of geek chic is a funny thing.
If there’s one thing Idiots of Ants can’t be accused of, it’s a lack of enthusiasm.
It’s rare for a Fringe stand-up show to devote a significant stretch of time to the correct pronunciation of Kettering Town F.
Surreal humour is usually considered to be at odds with a comedic mainstream, though many who are named practitioners of the surreal are some of the most broadly watched of comics.
Despite the midday showing time, Funk Rocket 5000 is a pitch-black comedy.
It’s fair to say that you may as well put a sofa on a stage as big as the Pleasance Grand.
I don’t think that political soapboxing should ordinarily have a place in comedy.
Thom Tuck looks and sounds like a cross between David Mitchell and a long-lost sixth form teacher famed for getting a bit drunk.
This Humble Quest offers up a madcap, frenetic late night quiz show, hosted by Mark Allen and diminutive, slightly eerie sidekick Eli Silverman, as a duo of guests take part in a n…
Dregs, a sketch duo starring Max Dickins and Mark Smith, are hotly tipped performers.
Often with self-styled ‘leftfield’ comics oddity is limited to execution rather than completely disconnected content.
There’s an old Jackie Mason joke where, when talking about the reception of his material, he claims that ‘gentiles love it’ but when Jews hear it, their response doesn’t st…
At one point in this freewheeling show, Paul Foot pulls out a heap of colourfully illustrated flashcards and asks us to yield to the ‘glimpses’ of jokes they contain.
Last year, Jeff Achtem’s ‘Swamp Juice’ took the art of shadow puppetry to mesmeric heights.
The last twenty minutes of Eric’s Tales of the Sea are heart-wrenchingly powerful.
Many stand-ups use the idea of a nervy, neurotic persona as part of their acts.
Irish trio Foil, Arms and Hog, or Sean Finegan, Conor McKenna and Sean Flanagan to their parents, barely leave the stage for the duration of this dizzying hour of sketch comedy.
A two man show by charismatic performers Aideen Wylde and Tadhg Hickey promises fast paced farce within the context of an 1870’s period setting, interestingly established at the …
I didn’t find myself laughing uproariously at Casual Violence.
My assumption is that it was The Stand’s decision to blast Method Man out of the speakers as the audience took their seats rather than Simon Munnery’s, but it is a credit to a …
Say what you like about the show, the title doesn’t attempt to mislead you.
Brendon Burns is forty-one.
A woman flails around in her hospital bedroom as if operated on strings by a huge blue man in an overcoat, himself a disquieting looking papier-mâché puppet.
Despite being named after an album by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a band famed for its extravagant tendencies, John Robins’ show of the same name is comforting and familiar.
For years, Pappy’s have established their reputation as one of the most beloved sketch troupes on the Fringe.
Blimey, Tony Law is funny.
Andrew Maxwell likes to laugh.
I doubt that the grand surroundings of the Edinburgh International Conference Centre had previously played host to any event opening with a spotlight falling on a man in a Ringmast…
Carl Donnelly has written his autobiography and hopes to share it with his audience, despite the fact it hasn’t been published yet.
Even from the offstage pre-amble, which wryly and shrewdly disassociates the use of the phrase ‘The N Word’ from the word itself - telling us that the former phrase won’t be …