Monday, August 12, 2024
Standup Olga Koch, whose dad was once the deputy prime minister of Russia, is weighing in on the debate about class and wealth in the industry in an unusual way " by addressing it head-on
No…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe straight-talking comic's debut hour is cheerfully rude and glowing with maternal love, as she describes parenting a son with autism
At a festival with 3,600…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:25AM[SHARE]Or What's Left of Us by Sh!t Theatre is a playful and starkly profound hour in which the duo share their bereavements and stir reflections of our own
When someone you love dies, the grief ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 11, 2024
Monkey Barrel Comedy, Edinburgh Armed with spreadsheets and her usual playfulness, the comic attempts to evaluate the worth of her life so far
Has autobiographical comedy reached its apotheo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AM[SHARE]Just the Tonic at the Caves, EdinburghBrown engages in good faith with questions of guilt and remorse, while perceiving bad faith in his critics' responses to an old routine that included th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:52AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard , EdinburghMaking her fringe debut, the comic performs a droll, unsentimental and occasionally heart-stopping pas de deux with the critical voice in her head
Hannah Platt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 10, 2024
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghRapunzel, Hansel and Gretel and a lot of toilet roll feature as the star Disney+ comedy Extraordinary explores wishes and their fulfilment
All very well being part o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 9, 2024
Pleasance @ EICC, Edinburgh There's more Margolyes than Dickens here, but her gift for florid characters is on fine display and suits the Victorian master perfectly
"Guaranteed to offend and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AM[SHARE]A crowing flash-in-the-pan PM and Jimmy Carr's life lessons from the Oompa Loompas
A tale of two powerful women as the Edinburgh fringe enters its opening week. Nica Burns is a West End prod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2024
Traverse, EdinburghPlaying both partners in a sordid three-year relationship, the bold LA clown delivers another unforgettable show
Few fringe trajectories have been as joyful to trace these…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Bebe Cave dazzles in a slightly overstuffed monologue about fame, sexism and power in Tinseltown
'A person waiting to be asked to pretend to be a person." It d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM[SHARE]Assembly George Square, EdinburghShe was chewed up and spat out by the US, but now the TikTok sensation gets to tell her story in this slick production
With her TikTok series a smash during …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:45AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Texan comedian delivers a playful show about a holiday from hell that tackles mental health and wokeness
It is rare for an act to firmly establish themselve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghA show about unresolved masculinity combines elements of musical theatre with the experimental comic's own ruminations on ego and oblivion
If you were picking a come…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00PM[SHARE]Children's author, YouTuber, 'sausage bird' designer … the comic who was born Derek Chickpeas (maybe) talks about cooking up his hilariously daft alter ego " and we pick some of his funnie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2024
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh This tremendous solo debut finds the comic veering between stranger-than-fiction verisimilitude and hilarious gothic exaggeration
'Childless cat ladies" have b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghDowning Street's chief of staff is imagined to be gossipy and gregarious in this wickedly silly show
Sue Gray is one of the most recognisable names in the UK, b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 4, 2024
Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh The BBC New Comedy award-winner resurrects a cadaver of an idea as a Rotherham working men's club MC with a devilish twist
Subterranean and claustrophobic, Monkey Ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01PM[SHARE]Gilded Balloon at the Museum, EdinburghThe former SNP wunderkind brings her popular touch to the standup stage, pairing irreverent personal stories with a gasp-inducing exposé of Westminste…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2024
The comedian's show Collaborator involves 160 audience members getting speaking parts " and Kitson has anticipated every possible question, anxiety or misstep
What happens when an audience p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Kyle Gass's ill-judged Donald Trump assassination jibe has put Tenacious D on ice. Will he be for ever cancelled, or bounce back like Billy Connolly and Jo Brand?
On the edge. Walking a tigh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Friday, July 12, 2024
Testosterone-soaked clowning show Furiozo: Man Looking for Trouble spikes fun with fear " but the hooligan's knife-edge moments of vulnerability lead us somewhere different
Clowning is about…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]Soho theatre, LondonLenoir's mischievous charm is infectious, and she plays with skill on the heartstrings and funny bones
Clowning may be silly, but it is seldom, these days, insubstantial.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 11, 2024
We need to keep open offbeat DIY spaces that belong to artists and communities. Even if the odd performance sells zero tickets, they push theatre forward
It feels like a lifetime ago. In 201…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AM[SHARE]Friday, July 5, 2024
The American humorist delighted the Royal Festival Hall with characteristically disgruntled slices of life " including a brush with cancel culture
In years to come, I can tell the grandkids …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 3, 2024
The cult heroes are back with their 'best sketches ever'. After success with Ladhood, Stath Lets Flats and Parlement, are they still hoping for that elusive Sheeps TV series?
Fifteen years i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 2, 2024
From performing in a bin to arm-wrestling rivals, the standup cut his teeth at a Nottingham pub's chaotic Just the Tonic nights. As the thriving comedy club chain it grew into turns 30, he r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48PM[SHARE]Culden Faw Estate, Henley-on-ThamesThe Scottish clown and his pals have taken over in a family caper combining comedy, slapstick, dropped plates and acrobatic skills
Tweedy's MASSIVE Circus …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06AM[SHARE]Monday, July 1, 2024
A one-woman 90s romcom, boundary-testing standups and a new Taskmaster contestant make our comedy critic's list of the fringe's most promising tickets
Olga Koch stepped into the big league a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32AM[SHARE]Friday, June 28, 2024
Hackney Empire, London Well-spun jokes and great audience rapport elevate the comedian's show above standard fall-guy fare, though slick management inhibits its spark
How good can standup be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 27, 2024
Soho theatre, London She's a convivial host, but 70 minutes of shops chat, family home videos and the odd song about our comic's love life may leave you eyeing the exit
Many is the standup …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE] 
