Saturday, August 19, 2023
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe smoothest of standups offers polished punchlines in a warm and perfectly wrought hour on imminent parenthood
No comedy expertise is required to deduce, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMFriday, August 18, 2023
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghSome gags are queasy and others are thrillingly bleak from the Mancunian comic whose outbursts are often directed at himself
This cramped space at the back of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFrom a nine-year-old misfit to Sally Rooney writing a children’s book, Treen’s characters are pitched at a sharp angle to the real world
Funny Women winner …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMThursday, August 17, 2023
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAssuming the guise of ‘an old-school entertainment type’, this fringe debutant is hypnotically unusual
The fashion is for fringe newcomers to deliver solo s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13PMAssembly Rooms, Edinburgh In an affecting set, the comic reflects on his younger brother’s death and the importance of holding loved ones close
It is said that comedy is tragedy plus time …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe standup delivers an energetic set about trying to live up to his parents’ expectations and the ethics of his corporate day job
“I am unhinged!” There�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37AMHaving built his reputation as a comic and podcaster on his candour about anxiety and addiction, Robins is facing a new comedy challenge – happiness
‘There is no greater sorrow,” as Da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37AMWednesday, August 16, 2023
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghHenry Naylor’s well-intentioned drama about deaths in care homes lets anger cloud its judgment
Hyde, Manchester, in the 1990s. Frank and Georgie’s 78-year-old mu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe nerdy comic takes his standup in a new direction with this partly participatory show but it doesn’t exploit his strengths
He may be making his 10th Edinbu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13AMTuesday, August 15, 2023
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghA clown by trade, Masli here sets about tackling the audience’s problems. Her leftfield efforts to ease them are one of this fringe’s true tonics
At any gi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PMMonkey Barrel @ the Tron, EdinburghAsh’s audacious conceit dares to find the funny side of tragic events, and partly succeeds, until this rawly emotional show slips comedy’s moorings
If …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:13AMAfter the pain of the Covid years, the festival has returned with a roar. It can make a new standup’s career – if they are willing to sleep in a nuclear bunker and expose their own traum…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55AMMonday, August 14, 2023
Theatre Royal, GlasgowDelivering his own ‘origin story’, with interruptions encouraged, Acaster skilfully pieces together big-yield routines from inauspicious beginnings
We all learned …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AMSunday, August 13, 2023
Assembly George Square, EdinburghSeventies spy novels, sexually frustrated poultry, an April Fools’ Day breakup … it’s all here in the sophomore show from Rosie Nicholls and Sullivan B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49PMAssembly Roxy, EdinburghThe US writer, comedian and actor’s cabaret show includes potent songs about sexuality, identity and police violence
Triple-threat doesn’t begin to describe the a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:37PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAudiences will fall for upbeat stooge Magliano, who delivers a fun, well-wrought follow-up to last year’s sellout show – and ends on a perspective-shifting …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AMSaturday, August 12, 2023
Assembly George Square, EdinburghGrace stars as the Black Widow actor to poke fun at cross-racial casting, in an intricate takedown of fixed identity that will leave your mind buzzing
‘An …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AMFriday, August 11, 2023
Monkey Barrel, EdinburghUnpicking relationships with swagger and a dash of Hannah Gadsby-esque introspection, the standup seems ready for the big league
Olga Koch has turned 30, and – per…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThough she emerged as 00s comedy royalty, Allen’s show about kicking back against dull domesticity only raises a few smiles
How to calibrate your expectations…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghMoving beyond the gag about Rishi Sunak which dragged her into a media storm, Navabi’s first fringe show introduces us to a comic of promise
Leila Navabi unde…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:19AMThursday, August 10, 2023
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghPlumbing the realms of the unexpected, O’Neill plays both parts of a clowning double act, masterfully testing the limits of freak-out comedy
‘One banana, tw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25PMWednesday, August 9, 2023
Summerhall, EdinburghThe comic relives being a carer for a lovably eccentric adopted uncle in a heartfelt show that demonstrates caring’s reciprocal flow
The “dead dad show” is a fring…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:07PMMonkey Barrel at the Tron, EdinburghThis part-improvised, largely mimed and entirely chaotic comic play about guinea pigs and bank robbery is ramshackle fun
Edinburgh comedy award-nominated …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMTuesday, August 8, 2023
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThe polarising comic overthinks relationships and family ties before leading his audience into territory where he’s not after laughs
Drew Michael’s first televis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:37PMMonkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghNational stereotypes aside, the cordial TikTok star delivers lively cross-Channel observations and adds a soupçon of substance
Social media rewards high conce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis relentlessly upbeat call to relish life’s little boons was an awardwinner at Melbourne’s comedy festival and is a fun hour
Misery loves comedy, they sa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMMonday, August 7, 2023
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe comedian rebrands as angry for her second show, but it’s her likable comic persona that proves irresistible
Not the least achievement of Chloe Petts’ de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:13AMUnderbelly Cowgate, EdinburghUS comedians Anne Gregory and Rebekka Johnson front a satire of girl bossing, with guest acts including the British pop star
It’s a bit of one thing and a bit …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AMAssembly Hall, EdinburghIs the fringe veteran stretching himself? No, but his laconic style is deceptive: he’s never less than beadily alert
Might knob gags be defended on the basis of cul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:37AMSunday, August 6, 2023
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAfter moving to Glasgow, the Yorkshire standup dreams of reinventing himself as a Scotsman – but will faking an accent and ordering vegan haggis be enough?
Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:43PMTuesday, August 1, 2023
The Norwegian clown, whose hi-vis strip show won BGT and took over TikTok, is bringing his silliness to a yurt in Edinburgh. ‘Something bigger than me is happening,’ he says. ‘It’s o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25AM 
