Saturday, August 26, 2023
The Edinburgh comedy award-winning show Ends is a superb set about Shah’s grandfather, the standup’s imminent wedding and multicultural Britain
The cliche about Edinburgh fringe comedy …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:55AMMonkey Barrel Comedy at The Hive, EdinburghThe Edinburgh comedy award nominee dials up the silly to 11 as he delivers a series of shambolic gags
There is no more uproarious opening sequence …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMFriday, August 25, 2023
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe comic’s material on years lost to drugs, booze and drama school is delivered with energy but this show lacks context and heft
You know you’re in trouble…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:13PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghHer material may be crude but there is no denying the bawdy Brummie comedian’s craft, nor her gift for getting the audience onside
The defining routine of Lin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PMThursday, August 24, 2023
Monkey Barrel at The Tron, EdinburghIn an act mining similar territory to Rhod Gilbert, Smith flounders in everyday life and revels in being the butt of the joke
The little guy floundering a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:34PMMonkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghWritten in the shadow of grief and nominated for the Edinburgh comedy award, this barnstorming set takes in race, class and migration
Quite the fringe journey …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:13PMUnderbelly Bristo Square, EdinburghNominated for best newcomer at last year’s fringe, Sonubi is a warm performer but this leisurely new show lacks shape
‘I never asked to be so goddam gi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07AMWednesday, August 23, 2023
Julia Masli, Ahir Shah and Janine Harouni are on the eight-strong shortlist for the coveted £10,000 prize at the festival
A clown-therapy show that takes place in the middle of the night. A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:37PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe duo, doing separate shows for children and adults at the fringe, have hit on a winner – their daft pranks bring the young audience right in
It’s a thing…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AMPatsy Ferran takes on Eliza in Pygmalion, Andrew Scott plays multiple characters from Uncle Vanya and Mlima’s Tale tells a powerful tale of the ivory trade. Here’s what’s in store on s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:55AMTuesday, August 22, 2023
Assembly George Square, EdinburghThe Australian comedian makes it immediately clear you are in safe hands with a show of sketches and characters
It’s a thrill when a comic you’re seeing …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghSchoolteacher-by-day Tothill’s foppish persona is a delight and his thesis, that hedonism died with the Reformation, is convincing
There are newcomers on the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe conceit in the comic’s fringe debut is that his sleazebag persona has been #MeTooed and returns with a barrage of bad-taste jokes
“Too dark and weird f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:55AMMonday, August 21, 2023
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghRamoso delivers an irresistible show featuring dozens of characters in sketches, improv and a comic play
Sketch is usually a team game – and you could believe ther…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:43PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAbdulrashid is emerging as one of comedy’s most honest chroniclers of life’s complexities and contradictions
There are few acts in Edinburgh right now quite…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:55AMSunday, August 20, 2023
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghThe physical assault Deol underwent in the US informs a set that comes alive when the audience join her search for agency
Who wouldn’t want to hold the fate of tho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:49PMSaturday, August 19, 2023
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe standup makes his fringe debut with songs, set-pieces and self-acceptance in a winning show
Do we need more gay heroes? Daniel Foxx thinks so. If you are wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13PMPleasance 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 05:49PM 
