Soho theatre, LondonThe notorious comic and performance artist explores loneliness and the human/animal divide in an intricately assembled scrapbook show It’s taken Kim Noble seven years t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AMIn Lullaby for Scavengers, the no-holds-barred performance artist returns to outfox and outrage audiences. He talks about trying to snog his mother, bathing with maggots and being an ‘old …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AMNew theatre, OxfordFrench heaps detail upon self-abasing detail as she shares hugely engaging stories from her 40-year career It’s called semantic satiation, when you say a word so many ti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PMShows like Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg exist to make politicians seem upright and substantial. Lycett rightly pointed out that some of them are not “Memo: don’t put comedians on Ques…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55AMAssembly George Square, EdinburghThe Australian physical comedian conjures up a career for himself as a professional spear-thrower in this wacky if uneven show There is a distinguished, if n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMM&S Bank Arena, LiverpoolThey are arguably the two greatest US standups of their generation – and both topical for not always lovely reasons. Could this double-whammy possibly live up …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AMMonkey Barrel, EdinburghSince her last show, about weightlifting, the 39-year-old has split from her son’s father and moved in with a woman. Which adds up to hilarity for the audience if n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMPleasance, EdinburghMaddix is a fluent, playful comic, but the window opened here on his conflicted psyche feels unresolved – for him as much as his audience ‘I needed to say it more tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AMAssembly George Square, EdinburghThere are few bells and whistles in Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher’s fringe debut, just two seasoned US comics in effortless harmony with each other Here�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PMThe baby-faced oddball has gone from performing to tiny audiences to winning live comedy’s most coveted prize, the Edinburgh festival fringe comedy award What does an Edinburgh comedy awar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03AMI’ve spent my whole professional life loving and writing about the fringe. But rocketing rents, a lack of diversity and its overwhelming scale are pushing this world-class cultural crucibl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:55AMUnderbelly Bristo Square, Edinburgh The Dave’s Edinburgh comedy awards best newcomer nominee carries a confidence and warmth that is hard to resist In a lesser controversy at this year’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMMonkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghThe standup puts her working-class status front and centre in this compelling and cathartic journey through her Covid years Lauren Pattison had two ambitions f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PMMonkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghPugh shambles his diffident way into the spotlight with a stealthy, clever and heartwarming show Incompetent, negative, a follower not a leader: Josh Pugh is h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMMonkey Barrel, EdinburghThe Australian comic takes incongruity to uncommon lengths – and this year he’s recalibrated his show towards warmth “My mind is a prison full of crazy ideas. A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43AMMonkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghDean’s great skill is to make the audience feel like intimate confidantes, but sometimes his impatience to get to the next laugh weakens the shtick It’s a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMFrom Liz Kingsman’s ‘messy woman’ send-up to Seann Walsh’s memories of his off-screen Strictly kiss, the nine-strong shortlist is a triumph for diversity though not without glaring o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PMSamira Wiley makes her UK stage debut, there’s an urgent counter to antisemitism, plus a fourth King James, refugee dancers and comedic returns Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMThey are the shock troops of comedy, pranksters who risk arrest and worse to ridicule the powerful. As two acclaimed practitioners – including the man who threw Nazi golfballs at Trump –…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMUnderbelly, EdinburghOutlandish physical antics and a spontaneous stage presence keep Wardeh’s audience laughing as he clowns through a cast of oddball characters Clown is in vogue again, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghHoult hangs up the dress and luvvie cadences of his fringe-staple alter ego Anna Mann in a camp, silly yet surprisingly emotional show When a character comic bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWilson relives her tumultuous turn as a teenage talent show contestant armed with laughter and song, topped with a touching tribute to her plucky younger self �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghOkatsuka’s slightly incapable, slightly on-edge persona is a fun time, whose yarn about an intruder frames material on marriage, mental illness and migration …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMMonkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghThe answer may seem obvious but the commanding comic’s fringe debut eschews any clear structure with mixed results Back in 2020, Thanyia Moore was planning h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMThe Mash House, EdinburghThe New Jersey comic mines his lineage for laughs in a pensive dispatch from cosa nostra America (or somewhere nearby) The “dead dad” show is a fringe comedy cli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghMaturity has made the awkward standup more at ease with himself and lent heft and fruitful battle-scarring to his shtick It’s a feature of standup that comedy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AMGilded Balloon, EdinburghSherman’s show, pitched between anti-comedy, performance art and body horror, leaves no doubt why she’s also known as Sarah Squirm Delightfully weird, says the p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMAssembly George Square, EdinburghPart observational, part autobiographical, The Real Hero in All This considers life from ever-surprising angles Sixteen years in Malaysia, 16 in the UK. Thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37AMGilded Balloon, EdinburghAdam has lots to say – about proposals, weddings, football and houseplants – and delivers it with puppyish pleasure There are worse qualities to bring to standup…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFrom jokes about men’s waning dominance to a teary anecdote, this show runs through a range of emotions on a post-breakup journey Wanna feel weird? Try star-r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMGilded Balloon, EdinburghIn his debut fringe show OK Zoomer, the 22-year-old comic bounces between optimism and fatalism, delivering gags with a sly twinkle Gen Z’ers have every reason to …
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