Thursday, 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 set …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PM[SHARE]Pleasance 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 07:54AM[SHARE]Pleasance 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 which…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 02:42PM[SHARE]Pleasance 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 11:06AM[SHARE]Underbelly 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 g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AM[SHARE]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 ...
'The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33PM[SHARE]Pleasance 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 sep…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 bes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PM[SHARE]Underbelly 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 of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 08:48AM[SHARE]The 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 08:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 sincerity …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PM[SHARE]Monkey 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 what'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 assemb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PM[SHARE]Pleasance 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 10:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 01:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 04:54PM[SHARE]Pleasance 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 " Richard…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 04:33PM[SHARE]Pleasance 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 in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 03:12PM[SHARE]Pleasance 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 that …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AM[SHARE]Pleasance 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? That's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 supposedly …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 05:12PM[SHARE]Monkey 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 11:03AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 06:24PM[SHARE]Stand 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 po…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 diagnosed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PM[SHARE]Underbelly 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 03:32PM[SHARE] 
