Friday, September 16, 2016
Cambridge Corn ExchangeSome shows date quicker than others. "I've had another shit year," says Rhod Gilbert, introducing this touring version of his 2009 Edinburgh festival show. But – eve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMWednesday, September 14, 2016
Epsom Playhouse Fury at Britain’s political masters has been replaced by mild tales about life’s inconveniences in the News Quiz host’s latest show, Songs of FreedomUntil his last tour…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMTuesday, September 13, 2016
James Acaster has penned a sitcom pilot and Liam Williams has written a play. Both bring echoes of their striking comedy routines but neither is as successfulSitcoms, in the UK at least, are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:39AMWednesday, September 7, 2016
Soho theatre, LondonThe Australian standup’s new set, Hussain in the Membrane, works best when it zeroes in on racial and religious sensitivitiesThe most eye-catching feature of Nazeem Hus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMMonday, September 5, 2016
There was an outpouring of emotional candour from standups at the Edinburgh festival, but Schumer skilfully keeps her anxieties at a safe distanceDoes Amy Schumer’s new tour justify the hy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMSaturday, September 3, 2016
The Will and Grace star on writing songs about genitals and baring all in a new stage show about the blissful – and highly sexed – state of her union with Parks & Recreation actor Ni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15AMThursday, September 1, 2016
Leicester Square theatre, LondonWehn dials down the Teutonic stereotypes to launch into material other comics might find too weighty – such as the farce of the London housing marketAfter 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:14PMSoho Theatre, London"If there's something strange in the neighbourhood/ Who you gonna call? Hans Teeuwen!" It takes bulletproof self-belief to conduct an opening night crowd in a singalong o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMTriple Threat, Lucy McCormick’s Nutella’n’snogging take on the New Testament, has graduated seamlessly from the queer scene to mainstream theatre. But it’s as much an attack on celeb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:10AMBrexit, starting over, a honey-selling scam and karaoke with chickens … these are the concerns of the big names in comedy this autumn•Autumn culture: Film | Art & design | Dance | C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:10AMSaturday, August 27, 2016
Scottish standup picks up prize for fringe’s top comedy show, while Scott Gibson is named best newcomer and marathon reading of Chilcot Report also recognisedRichard Gadd has won this year…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:16AMFriday, 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 01:12PM 
