Friday, August 19, 2022
Monkey 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 her…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AM[SHARE]The 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 cliche.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Pleasance 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 w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2022
Gilded 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 pre-p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Assembly 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 01:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Gilded 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 tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PM[SHARE]Pleasance 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-rat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Gilded 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 fe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Mischief Theatre regular delivers routines to fit the audience's requests before heading down a darker path in an uneven show
"You can't please everyone," C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM[SHARE]The festival is in full swing with audiences crammed into comedy clubs. But is our global pandemic the elephant in the room?
Comedian Sam Nicoresti starts his show with an elaborate sanitisi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]Questions of free speech offer no simple answers, but it's clear that this is a watershed moment in comedy
If we don't defend free speech, we live in tyranny. That's the tenor of the coverag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2022
It's a form of comedy that has fallen out of favour with TV, but a trio of fun acts are keeping the sketch flame alive
One of the pleasures of the fringe is checking in with standups as they…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA gang of New Zealand comics and their very special guests become Elvis impersonators, hobbits and chimney sweeps in a fun fringe night
Great was the excitement…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 13, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghMischief Theatre are up to their old tricks as silly slapstick meets telepathy in a send-up of stage mentalism
Stage mentalism " the world of Derren Brown and D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48PM[SHARE]Friday, August 12, 2022
Monkey Barrel @ The Hive, EdinburghThe endearing comic's Edinburgh debut is a riotously inventive show that blurs notions of race, gender and disability
You could call Lara Ricote's Edinbur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PM[SHARE]Underbelly, George Square, EdinburghIn her show All Change Please it's marriage, not politics, that's at the heart of the Mash Report satirist's finest jokes
Rachel Parris always knew this m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAdam Meggido's play finds the teenage Johnson starring in Shakespeare's tragedy and gives a taste of his future leadership
Out of his depth as a tragedy unfolds…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2022
Assembly George Square, EdinburghDebut show directed by Jordan Brookes sees Will Rowland and Eddy Hare deliver a familiar odd-couple turn with freshness
"The UK's lowest energy double act," …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghBrokentalkers theatre company and feminist comic Adrienne Truscott joyfully burlesque the ugliness of machismo in art and in life
The great male artist may soon be o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24PM[SHARE]Stand New Town theatre, EdinburghMaking her fringe standup debut after blazing a trail through modelling and activism, Olumide has some promising material but it fails to come together
Fashi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn her show The Woman's Hour, the viral comedy star offers caricatures of burbling backbenchers and a woke-bashing TV host
In the darkness of our political mome…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07PM[SHARE]Monkey Barrel, EdinburghWith cartoonish flair, the likable comic " one half of sketch duo The Delightful Sausage " revels in the repeated indignity of being ditched for someone else
The Girl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07PM[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2022
The former PM's one-off onstage chat with standup Matt Forde belied his dour image. If only he'd shown more of this side of himself to the electorate
Where is the comedy, Matt Forde, in this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PM[SHARE]Assembly Rooms, EdinburghWith Lap of Shame, the comic delivers a set of breathtakingly rude jokes and thought-provoking ghastliness
A friend of Frankie Boyle's, he tells us, stopped watching…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Childhood friends and LOL Word affiliates Rachel WD and Ruby Clyde leave no assumption unturned with their deft wit and breezy musical interplay
A venerable tr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Stand Comedy Club, EdinburghThe standup delivers a compelling show that reflects on his Strictly Come Dancing notoriety and harsh childhood experiences
Many may struggle to sympathise " far…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 7, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghSikisa Bostwick-Barnes's ebullience carries her through a debut solo show that's punctuated with dance breaks
You can see why Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes themed her …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 6, 2022
Underbelly Bristo Square, EdinburghMilo McCabe's matinee-idol character initially feels at odds with his material, but it's hard not to be won over by his enthusiasm
Milo McCabe performed as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghReich's flouncing, self-obsessed comedy is a brittle skewering of irony and anxiety " and a must-see
One of countless acts this fringe whose Covid-delayed debut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PM[SHARE]Friday, July 22, 2022
In his Edinburgh fringe show Flying High the impressionist wants to convey the warmth and affection of the comic and Blankety Blank host
Who knew, growing up in the 70s and 80s, that we were…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Monday, July 18, 2022
Canal Cafe theatre, LondonThis high-energy hour of songs and sketches includes a Conservative leadership medley from The Greatest Showman and Boris Johnson's Jailhouse Rock
In the 43 years s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE] 
