Monday, August 15, 2016
Dolphins 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 11:46AMGilded Balloon, EdinburghWhether you’ve seen the TV show or not, there’s still plenty to enjoy in the brusque humour of this slapdash stage version“I’m just laughing,” a tittering …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AMTuesday, August 9, 2016
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghThe Australian standup’s sexist creation, Dave, is back in a multi-layered show that spoofs both chauvinism and clowning Zoë Coombs Marr made a splash last ye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:09AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Kettering standup delivers his unique brand of micro-observational comedy in an exquisitely written showMaybe it’s to do with Brexit, but comics seem preo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMMonday, August 8, 2016
Liquid Room, EdinburghIn an intimate and impressively confident show, the Danish comedian dissects the troubled feelings at play beneath her oddball exteriorThe Danish standup Sofie Hagen is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PMTraverse, EdinburghIt’s easy to submit to Kitson’s playfully showy writing in this piece about the tiny moments on which life hingesDaniel Kitson does Sliding Doors? Even if his shows di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20AMSunday, August 7, 2016
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn her first solo standup show – I Was a Teenage Christian – Brand shares honest but shapeless stories about an adolescent fling with evangelical religionTh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Daily Show correspondent makes a supremely confident fringe debut with a punchy, winning setMichelle Wolf: ‘Four years of Donald Trump jokes will drive me…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:38AMSaturday, August 6, 2016
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe director of Gein’s Family Giftshop uses her debut solo show to examine the ‘women aren’t funny’ myth Related: Edinburgh festival 2016: what to see a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:15AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA revival of Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins’ spoof of commercial radio – first heard on Radio 4 in 1980 – offers a jolly hour of familiar material and nosta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMFriday, August 5, 2016
At the fringe but not sure which tickets to book? Try one, two or all three of these theatre and comedy picks from our critics11.30am, Assembly George Square (until 29 August) Continue readi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37AMWednesday, August 3, 2016
Invisible Dot, LondonThe sly American standup toys with the audience, pretending to be a Trump disciple, a gun enthusiast and a pro-lifer in a set that is sharp and subversiveThere are some …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:49AMTuesday, August 2, 2016
Sacha Baron Cohen says he’s the funniest man he’s ever met and countless comics have learned from his ridicule. Brian Logan attends the classes of the legendary French teacherAn exercise…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:57AMSunday, July 24, 2016
He was the toast of Edinburgh, he's written a novel and he's had a play put on at the RSC. Yet, comedian Russell Kane is prone to rages and plagued by doubtTen years ago, before he'd even dr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:39PMWednesday, July 20, 2016
The fringe is no longer centred around the ‘big four’ venues. Whether you’re a performer or punter, take it from an award-winning comic – and get out morePiecing together my reviews …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43AMSoho theatre, LondonThe US comedian’s series of self-centred anecdotes are diverting enough, but she leaves it late to show that she’s wise to her personaAn anecdote late in Jen Kirkman�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:46AMFriday, July 15, 2016
Just for Laughs festival, LondonComedian Colin Mochrie and mesmerist Asad Mecci pitch suggestible stooges into sleepy routines – but though the format is promising, the results are unevenI…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AMG Live, GuildfordThe ‘nicest man in comedy’ is soft-hearted to a fault, in a set of optimistic but entirely safe and familiar routines Adam Hills is “widely referred to as ‘the nices…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31AMThursday, July 14, 2016
The Hawth, CrawleyThere's a strain of mathematical nerdiness to all one-liner specialists, of course; the remorseless wordplay, the dismantling of linguistic certainties brick by brick, sugg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:39PMKaty Brand and Kieran Hodgson were intimidated at first by the idea of going it alone on stage. But plenty of comedians journey between sketch troupes and solo performance – taking refuge …
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