Monday, September 16, 2019
As the dyspeptic old-school entertainer embarks on a tour, his creator Steve Delaney reflects on dedicating his life to one character
Comedy has its careerists: thrusting tyros zeroing in on…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:54PMKing’s theatre, GlasgowOn his first home tour for a decade, Boyle tempered bad-taste gags by trying to decide whether his trademark humour has any worth in extreme times
Australian standup…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:42AMFriday, September 13, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonThe standup riffs on the oddness of memory in a show that takes in Danish queens, Welsh sex breaks and a late gutpunch
Sofie Hagen’s last three shows – including her …
Linked From The Guardian at 11:12PMWednesday, September 11, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonFrom being spat at by male audience members to mum riding ‘groin first’ to the rescue, Mittal delivers an irreverent set
When Aditi Mittal made her UK debut two years…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:42AMTuesday, September 10, 2019
The soul-baring comedian has turned his experience of being stalked into a gripping piece of theatre, Baby Reindeer
It had all ended so well. When Richard Gadd won the Edinburgh Comedy award…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:48AMTuesday, August 27, 2019
After years working in bars and call centres, Brookes’ absurdist show netted him the Edinburgh comedy award. So why does he want to want to blow the whole thing up?
It’s an hour after J…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:33PMThe festival is over for another year but plenty of its theatre, comedy and dance hits have announced dates around the UK
CollapsibleBreffni Holahan gives a searing performance as Essie in M…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:54AMMonday, August 26, 2019
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghHelm’s first new show since 2013 combines humour and emotional intimacy, directly addressing his depression
Nick Helm was doing mental health comedy before it got …
Linked From The Guardian at 07:36AMThis year’s Edinburgh fringe was full of wokeness jokes from liberal standups as well as a host of conservative comedians who punch down
Has there been a rise in rightwing comedy? Or just …
Linked From The Guardian at 05:18AMPleasance Dome, EdinburghThe comedy duo – who don’t do things by half – send themselves up as they attempt to reassemble their teenage band for one longed-for final gig
‘I don’t do…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:18AMSunday, August 25, 2019
Assembly George Square Studios, EdinburghIn a wistful show with playful paradoxes, the comic ruminates on the little round face on our wrists and what it means
‘Did the people who set time…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:54PMAssembly Roxy, EdinburghAs politicised as each of its predecessors but the musical comics also explore the ineffable mysteries of life
‘As of right now, we’re no longer political.” Th…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:54AMSaturday, August 24, 2019
Brookes has won the biggest prize in live comedy, with Catherine Cohen named best newcomer and Jessica Brough recognised for her Fringe of Colour project
The Edinburgh Comedy award has found…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:36AMGilded Balloon Teviot, EdinburghThe Australian standup’s show is stuffed with arbitrary observations – and some of the funniest moments on the fringe
Absurdism-gone-haywire won the 2015 …
Linked From The Guardian at 08:03AMFriday, August 23, 2019
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe comic lets rip – if only a bit – for a fine hour of standup about new parenthood and his fogeyish tendencies
The only thing holding Ivo Graham back in p…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:12PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe comic relives playground traumas in an attempt to make sense of his stunted emotions in this award-nominated show
It’s a common complaint among comedians…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:48AMThursday, 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 …
Linked From The Guardian at 04:24PMPleasance 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…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:54AMPleasance 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 whi…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:12AMWednesday, 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, …
Linked From The Guardian at 02:42PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghMcNicholas throws down a heavyweight hour of standup and storytelling about his champion grandad Terry Downes
Terry Downes was world middleweight boxing champio…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:06AMUnderbelly 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…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:33AMTuesday, 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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Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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 …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
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