Friday, August 26, 2016
Underbelly Potterrow, EdinburghThere’s plenty of cartoonish comedy in Heath McIvor’s show about a writer who is given to splenetic outbursts – and made of feltI spent the first 10 minu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:19PMGilded Balloon teviot, EdinburghIn recalling his brain haemorrhage, the Glaswegian comic – shortlisted for Edinburgh’s best newcomer award – delivers a cheerful-squeamish setI’ve hea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:19PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIf some of this ex-panto star’s flamboyant shtick feels a tad outdated, he still steamrollers the audience and finds killer angles on his materialNot many 23-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:37AMThursday, August 25, 2016
Assembly George Square, EdinburghHis leftwing observations are repeatedly undercut for laughs but this is an enjoyable set from a provocative standup is clearly going placesTwenty-six-year-o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:56PMGilded Balloon, EdinburghFrom tales of Grindr dates gone wrong to the gruff support of his grandad, Agnew opens up about his personal life in an engaging showAt this year’s Edinburgh fring…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07AMWednesday, August 24, 2016
Eight comedy shows are in the running for the prestigious prize at the Edinburgh festival, with James Acaster receiving a fifth consecutive nominationA confessional show about sexual assault…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMTuesday, August 23, 2016
More big-hitting acts like Daniel Kitson and Bridget Christie aren’t launching their new shows in Edinburgh – they’re developing them thereNot least among the excellent things about th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:38PMMonday, August 22, 2016
Soho theatre, LondonThis multimedia show is a cartoon misery memoir, not without its pleasures, but mainly two-dimensionalRichard Gadd had a sleeper hit last year with Cheese and Crack Whore…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AMSunday, August 21, 2016
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghVivacious New Zealander whips up a blizzard of youthful energy in one of the fringe’s most memorable comedy debutsThe title of this New Zealander’s first fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:50AMFriday, August 19, 2016
John Kearns has turned failure into silly, soul-searching comedy. Will scooping Edinburgh's top comedy award spoil the punchline? Brian Logan meets the man hailed as the new Hancock"Can you …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:15PMWhere comedians once made the most of minority experiences, Fin Taylor, Brendon Burns and Peter White are three performers on this year’s fringe digging into white privilege We’re used t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40AMThursday, August 18, 2016
Kate Norris and Sinead Parker sketch out the desperation of a quarter-life crisis in lurid performance and fine writingAll Edinburgh venues have their ghosts, and in the Pleasance Attic I’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:20PMWednesday, August 17, 2016
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe affable comic expertly blends comedy and commentary in a routine that snipes unpityingly at Britain’s political classOne of the worst things about Brexit,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AMAssembly George Square, EdinburghSweat-drenched Adam Drake teeters on the edge of chaos in a quickfire set of micro-sketches I’ve seen plenty of performers sweat on the Edinburgh fringe, b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:58AMStepping before an audience the size of a football team must make every comic’s soul shrivel – and the experience is no less agonising for those watchingThere’s no feeling quite like i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:58AMTuesday, August 16, 2016
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghNick Mohammed’s daft alter ego combines death-defying escapes with convention-shredding comedy in a show operating on several layers of reality Overlooked for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27AMGilded Balloon Teviot, EdinburghFrom Gordon Brown confusing LGBT and BLT to her ‘conscious uncoupling’ from Corbyn-era Labour, the former Whitehall insider reveals a political culture as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghTom Walker’s Tory-blasting internet hit arrives on stage but there are precious few jokes in this deeply strange showWhat can it mean, that Jonathan Pie is on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AMMonday, August 15, 2016
Stand Comedy Club, EdinburghMore confident than last year’s debut, Brady’s show Male Comedienne focuses on what stripping taught her about feminism and female behaviour“What is this �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:14PMDolphins on LSD, a comic symphony and an improbable family show about a school siege … our critics pick the top tickets of this year’s fringeTankBreach Theatre’s compelling look at gen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMSunday, August 14, 2016
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFrom an inappropriate house-hunter to a slave-driving Willy Wonka, Phil Wang, George Fouracres and Jason Forbes are back with a fresh handful of bizarre skitsWe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSaturday, August 13, 2016
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghThe wily Zucker and lanky Venn flounce their way through an hour of whimsical routines, infusing everything with an irresistible pleasure and spirit of innocence…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMVoodoo Rooms, EdinburghHodgson leads us through the missteps of his early love life accompanied by his musical spirit-guide in another warm and playful solo storytelling showNo comic act has…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:28AMFriday, August 12, 2016
Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh Puffing on a treadmill, the comic builds from his crazed inner monologue while out jogging to offer a lurid portrait of a consciousness in meltdown‘Who is the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:09AMEdinburgh Playhouse With riffs on the allure of Magic Mike and the horrors of marriage, the comic is on bleakly funny form – but the reflex cynicism lacks his usual subtletyLouis CK arrive…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AMThursday, August 11, 2016
With alliances between standups increasingly common, relationship gags are entering a brave new era in which both parties get to air their dirty linen on stageAs comedy gets ever bigger, and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:56PMEdinburgh is hosting heaps of US comics including Bill Burr, Ari Shaffir and Mary Lynn Rajskub, star of TV’s 24. Do they have much in common?“This is an American-style hour,” says Ari …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:45PMStand Comedy Club, Edinburgh The comedian ditched her planned show when the EU referendum shock gave her something better to dig into. The result is splenetic, alarming – and hilariousDeat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMPleasance Dome, Edinburgh Best Laid Plans finds the musical comedian in compellingly candid form as she tenderly pokes fun at life’s serious disappointments You can tell something’s in t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMWednesday, August 10, 2016
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThe New Jersey standup tackles his mental-health troubles in a comedy set that is dark, droll and displays considerable skillFor nine years, the New Jersey comic Chr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50PMThe Canadian comic is at the Edinburgh fringe with his protest show about a joke that saw him ordered to pay $42,000. It’s not a well-argued defenceMike Ward appears on his poster in a muz…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:46AM 
