Monday, August 26, 2019
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThe comedy duo – who don’t do things by half – send themselves up as they attempt to reassemble their teenage band for one longed-for final gig
‘I don’t do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMSunday, August 25, 2019
Assembly George Square Studios, EdinburghIn a wistful show with playful paradoxes, the comic ruminates on the little round face on our wrists and what it means
‘Did the people who set time…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMAssembly Roxy, EdinburghAs politicised as each of its predecessors but the musical comics also explore the ineffable mysteries of life
‘As of right now, we’re no longer political.” Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSaturday, August 24, 2019
Brookes has won the biggest prize in live comedy, with Catherine Cohen named best newcomer and Jessica Brough recognised for her Fringe of Colour project
The Edinburgh Comedy award has found…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMGilded Balloon Teviot, EdinburghThe Australian standup’s show is stuffed with arbitrary observations – and some of the funniest moments on the fringe
Absurdism-gone-haywire won the 2015 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMFriday, August 23, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe comic lets rip – if only a bit – for a fine hour of standup about new parenthood and his fogeyish tendencies
The only thing holding Ivo Graham back in p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe comic relives playground traumas in an attempt to make sense of his stunted emotions in this award-nominated show
It’s a common complaint among comedians…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMThursday, August 22, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghStrangers’ junk items give a semblance of structure to the latest by this gloriously skittish man-child who revels in the inane
Spencer Jones’s new show is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMPleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Sordidly silly sketches including a semi-clothed standoff, a gory childbirth and an appearance by Satan bring the house down with their delinquent humour
We wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Bristolian standup’s blunt good sense is deployed to optimal effect in taking fashionable feminism in the Instagram age to task
After several shows in whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMWednesday, August 21, 2019
London Hughes and Jessica Fostekew are among the comics on the shortlist of nine nominees, while Catherine Cohen is up for best newcomer
The shortlist for the biggest prize in live comedy, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghMcNicholas throws down a heavyweight hour of standup and storytelling about his champion grandad Terry Downes
Terry Downes was world middleweight boxing champio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMUnderbelly Cowgate, EdinburghA Romanov raised by wolves meets a struggling Lancashire boy in a memoir dipped in glamour and pulsating to powerpop
There’s a well-travelled road from boy- or…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AMTuesday, August 20, 2019
Caught between self-love and neurosis, Cohen has taken Edinburgh by storm with a musical show that plays up to her generation’s stereotypes. She’s even got a song called Look At Me ...
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghMatthew Greenhough’s buzzy one-man show clashes comedy, factionalism and jazz trumpet into a plea for tolerance between the echo chambers
Are we “trapped in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMMonday, August 19, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh In a thoughtful sophomore fringe show, the standup reflects on her relationship with a fellow comic
Sarah Keyworth’s 2018 fringe show – which secured her a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMUnderbelly Cowgate, EdinburghSounds and samples are tailored to the hack comic’s every comment, punchline and flirtatious wink in this fun character show
The hack comic is such a mainstay …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMSunday, August 18, 2019
The Hive, EdinburghA hallucinogenic trip through the desert provides the basis for a standup show teeming with ideas but lacking true cohesion
Desiree Burch is out of the traps at a gallop i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMThe Caves, EdinburghThe comic turns his childhood trauma into a warm and deeply reflective show laced with jet-back humour
An iron law of Edinburgh shows is that your trauma is your big reve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMSaturday, August 17, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghBrookes delivers one of the coups of this year’s fringe with this deconstruction of a standup set, in which you never know what he’ll do next
‘In all sinc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PMMonkey Barrel Comedy, Edinburgh The standup rails against old-fashioned ideals of femininity, the diet industry and society’s policing of women’s bodies. It’s strong stuff.
Who decides…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMFriday, August 16, 2019
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghWhen the billed act fails to materialise, front-of-house staff played by sketch duo Goodbear fill in – and prove themselves more than capable
The audience has asse…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWang is back with a new no-messing, harder-nosed attitude, along with excellent jokes including some choice one-liners
Phil Wang made a little piece of fringe h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMThursday, August 15, 2019
Assembly Hall, EdinburghThe #MeToo activist made herself a refuge, where orbs shimmer and we can be our best selves. What a pity she spends this frustrating show wafting around like a refuge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMWednesday, August 14, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghParading her sex life, friendships and militant subjectivity, the triumphantly profane comedian takes a step into the big league
The men have gone sensitive, it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe standup, who was circumcised as an infant, gets het up in a show where the polemic overshadows the comedy
Dick jokes are as old as comedy, but few – Richa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMTuesday, August 13, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghMining the comedy of motivational seminars with a delectably clownish touch, this double act could make anything funny
Self-help and motivational speaking have …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThree neighbours in a Parisian apartment block squabble, fall in love and steal each other’s biscuits in an appealing wordless comedy
It won a Molière award …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMMonday, August 12, 2019
Plan your schedule with our roundup of top shows, ordered by start time. This page will be updated daily throughout the festival
BoutSummerhall, 10.20am, until 25 AugustAn exploration of bro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghPolitics and family tensions fuel a precision-engineered debut show that fuses the mundane with the terrifying to smart effect
Janine Harouni’s dilemma is tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghSociety’s ‘follow your dreams’ mantra is pulled apart in a poignant show that tackles race, class and brotherly love
Is standup the perfect meritocracy? T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AM 
