Tuesday, 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 01:18AMSunday, August 11, 2019
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghA group of friends have their worldviews picked apart by a seductive stranger in Jonathan Caren’s well-acted drama
Stag parties are where masculinity supposedl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMSaturday, August 10, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghRaucous and rude, the standup provides a whirlwind tour of her sexual history and blows past all objections with the G-force gusto of her performance
You might …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMMonkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghThe Australian absurdist lays waste to standup convention with glee and skill – but is she too clever for her own good?
No gimmicks, promises Zoë Coombs Mar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMFriday, August 9, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe most physical third of the sketch group Daphne makes his solo standup debut with a considered rumination on class identity and social mobility
George Fourac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PMStand Comedy Club, Edinburgh The standup tenderly hymns the joys of new parenthood in this delightful, tightly focused show
Having a baby is about as far from unique an experience as it’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMWednesday, August 7, 2019
Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Kathy Burke directs Amy Booth-Steel’s feelgood, if cliched, chronicle of cancer and PTSD
Five years ago, Amy Booth-Steel was a jobbing actor, when she was diagnos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMUnderbelly Cowgate, EdinburghMore anarchic comedy, sexual frankness and in-yer-face clowning from the director behind Natalie Palamides
Is there a more singular style in comedy than Dr Brown…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMTuesday, August 6, 2019
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghThe polemicist style of his early work may have given way to a more conflicted thinker but the comedy remains emphatic
Ahir Shah has long joked about the contr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03PMStand Comedy Club, EdinburghKitson delivers a last-minute set of quarter-baked routines, but it’s still a pleasure to be entertained by his unique humour
It’s from one extreme to the oth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMHer last standup show, about working in a New York sex dungeon, was a fringe hit – and is now bound for TV. How will she top it?
Desiree Burch is putting the finishing touches to her new E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMMonday, August 5, 2019
Summerhall, EdinburghRecounting his experiences with a stalker, the comedian seems to live the horror afresh in a gripping show
If you followed Richard Gadd’s career up to his Edinburgh co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe incarnation of a woke social media caricature raises a few smiles but mostly pokes predictable fun at the softest of targets
Only the terminally woke would…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06PMSunday, August 4, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghCohen crackles with attitude as she serves up an alarming but entertaining song-and-chat about sex, love and self-image
One of the most eye-catching newcomers a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM 
