Saturday, August 17, 2024
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghGeorge Fouracres portrays the impresario as a haughty squire, while the comedy duo play keyboard and drums
‘Is this show a legal minefield? Yes it is. But on we go…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn what they bill as their farewell to the fringe, the sketch group address woke-phobic dads, the apocalypse and AI in typically rich and wild style
A standup c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghTV success has only sharpened the Starstruck creator’s punches as she overshares about the indignities of dating, her fine gags closer to the bleeding edge th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMFriday, August 16, 2024
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Dressed as the publisher’s emblem, in orange flippers and not much else, the ingenious comic delivers a dizzy series of droll visual routines
Some shows have…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:45PMThursday, August 15, 2024
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghThe Massive Dad star riffs on the benefits of making comedy online, buoyed by arch good humour and high-quality gags within gags
Stevie Martin’s show weighs …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMTuesday, August 13, 2024
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Australian comedian’s rocky 2023 is explored in PowerPoint, SMS exchanges, rap, musical comedy and online videos
The year 2023 was the worst of Lou Wall�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:01PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe irrepressible aesthete, and lapsed primary school teacher, underwent medical trials to fund this effervescent show – and has since been hospitalised
There…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMPleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Witnessing 9/11 from school as a six-year-old is one of many mental distresses recounted in the New York comic’s often piercingly bleak set
Whenever you thin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:10AMMonday, August 12, 2024
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe American standup and sitcom writer delivers a show of ticklish suspense that somersaults with invention and surprise
Not all comedy shows need weighty theme…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PMStandup 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
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AMPleasance 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 3,6…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:25AMOr 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, 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 11:37AMJust 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:52AMPleasance 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 06:27AMSaturday, 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 10:00AMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AMA 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 pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:39AMThursday, 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 11:08AMWednesday, 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.” …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMAssembly 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 09:45AMPleasance 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 03:00AMTuesday, 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 co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00PMChildren’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 hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMMonday, 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” ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMPleasance 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,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AMSunday, 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01PMGilded 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 08:55AMThursday, 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 audien…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PMWednesday, 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 ti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMFriday, 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 a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM 
