Stand Comedy Club, Edinburgh The comedian ditched her planned show when the EU referendum shock gave her something better to dig into. The result is splenetic, alarming " and hilariousDeath …
Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Best Laid Plans finds the musical comedian in compellingly candid form as she tenderly pokes fun at life's serious disappointments You can tell something's in the a…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThe New Jersey standup tackles his mental-health troubles in a comedy set that is dark, droll and displays considerable skillFor nine years, the New Jersey comic Chr…
The Canadian comic is at the Edinburgh fringe with his protest show about a joke that saw him ordered to pay $42,000. It's not a well-argued defenceMike Ward appears on his poster in a muzzl…
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghWhether you've seen the TV show or not, there's still plenty to enjoy in the brusque humour of this slapdash stage version"I'm just laughing," a tittering Robert Flo…
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghThe Australian standup's sexist creation, Dave, is back in a multi-layered show that spoofs both chauvinism and clowning Zoë Coombs Marr made a splash last ye…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Kettering standup delivers his unique brand of micro-observational comedy in an exquisitely written showMaybe it's to do with Brexit, but comics seem preocc…
Liquid Room, EdinburghIn an intimate and impressively confident show, the Danish comedian dissects the troubled feelings at play beneath her oddball exteriorThe Danish standup Sofie Hagen is…
Traverse, EdinburghIt's easy to submit to Kitson's playfully showy writing in this piece about the tiny moments on which life hingesDaniel Kitson does Sliding Doors? Even if his shows didn't…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn her first solo standup show " I Was a Teenage Christian " Brand shares honest but shapeless stories about an adolescent fling with evangelical religionThe ba…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Daily Show correspondent makes a supremely confident fringe debut with a punchy, winning setMichelle Wolf: 'Four years of Donald Trump jokes will drive me i…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe director of Gein's Family Giftshop uses her debut solo show to examine the 'women aren't funny' myth Related: Edinburgh festival 2016: what to see and where…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA revival of Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins' spoof of commercial radio " first heard on Radio 4 in 1980 " offers a jolly hour of familiar material and nostalgia R…
Invisible Dot, LondonThe sly American standup toys with the audience, pretending to be a Trump disciple, a gun enthusiast and a pro-lifer in a set that is sharp and subversiveThere are some …
Sacha Baron Cohen says he's the funniest man he's ever met and countless comics have learned from his ridicule. Brian Logan attends the classes of the legendary French teacherAn exercise has…
He was the toast of Edinburgh, he's written a novel and he's had a play put on at the RSC. Yet, comedian Russell Kane is prone to rages and plagued by doubtTen years ago, before he'd even dr…
The fringe is no longer centred around the 'big four' venues. Whether you're a performer or punter, take it from an award-winning comic " and get out morePiecing together my reviews list for…
Soho theatre, LondonThe US comedian's series of self-centred anecdotes are diverting enough, but she leaves it late to show that she's wise to her personaAn anecdote late in Jen Kirkman's sh…
Just for Laughs festival, LondonComedian Colin Mochrie and mesmerist Asad Mecci pitch suggestible stooges into sleepy routines " but though the format is promising, the results are unevenIt'…
G Live, GuildfordThe 'nicest man in comedy' is soft-hearted to a fault, in a set of optimistic but entirely safe and familiar routines Adam Hills is "widely referred to as 'the nicest man in…
The Hawth, CrawleyThere's a strain of mathematical nerdiness to all one-liner specialists, of course; the remorseless wordplay, the dismantling of linguistic certainties brick by brick, sugg…
Katy Brand and Kieran Hodgson were intimidated at first by the idea of going it alone on stage. But plenty of comedians journey between sketch troupes and solo performance " taking refuge in…
The Invisible Dot, LondonThe Canadian comedian questions our rigid stereotypes of gender and sexuality, with the aid of some goofy anecdotes A review of Mae Martin's first comedy gig, aged 1…
The comedian relives her teenage years as a fervent evangelical Christian in her new show. As she prepares for the Edinburgh festival, she talks about preaching in shopping centres and comic…
Soho theatre, LondonThe 24-year-old comedian is charming and verbally virtuosic sending up his own white privilege, but can't bring himself to be profound"Nothing bad has ever happened to me…