Friday, August 15, 2025
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghCandid family snapshots meet leftist politics and wondrous prehistoric megafauna in Long’s singular take on the state of the world
‘The old world is dying, and t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThursday, August 14, 2025
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe sometime Mr Swallow sidekick’s hour of interiors improv is a skilful, unshowy treat
‘Shall we give ourselves a night off from being funny?” There are …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMWednesday, August 13, 2025
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Maintaining a remarkable mood of spontaneity and joy, Tothill sweeps his audience through unexpected history and cruise-ship hell
Both his previous shows havin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWith a mischievous smile, the comic who shot to fame for roasting Donald Trump mixes the personal and political
It’s seven years since Michelle Wolf addressed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe comedy newcomer delivers an expertly constructed set with chutzpah – but not all the jokes land with precision
There’s a bait-and-switch to begin newcom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54AMTuesday, August 12, 2025
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghKey’s command of his style, seemingly up in arms about being called middle-aged, is an expert game of cat-and-mouse
It’s rich of Tim Key, his agent tells hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMSaturday, August 9, 2025
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe character comic returns with another daft set of surreal characters and sharp one-liners – this time stuck in an open-all-hours cafe
When Lorna Rose Treen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMMonkey Barrel, EdinburghThe 2023 best newcomer winner rebuts her ‘mild’ reputation with choice quips and boyband erotica
On her first visit to the fringe, Urooj Ashfaq left as the surpri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMFriday, August 8, 2025
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe south Londoner’s avian theme frames a fine debut about family, neurodivergence, pigeons, pigeons and more pigeons
Twenty years ago, Original Pirate Materi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMThursday, August 7, 2025
CabVol1 at Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh After last year’s Live!!! Kent-Walters’s hilariously monstrous alter ego has returned from hell to reclaim his club from gentrifying usurper Vegas Dav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMWednesday, August 6, 2025
Monkey Barrel, EdinburghTV success hasn’t gone to Smith’s head as he still sweats the small stuff – as well as detailing his attempts to procreate
Reviewing Ian Smith’s breakout show…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMPleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Through song and standup, Cohen transforms her 2023 medical emergency into glorious oversharing with this comic triumph
Everything was going right for cabaret …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMPleasance Dome, EdinburghStarting out with a deliciously bumptious persona, Doherty’s show trips itself up with a subplot about arts funding
Gay Witch Sex Cult was quite the solo debut las…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMUnderbelly Cowgate, EdinburghJessica Barton sets about cleaning up the domestic acts of the men in her audience with comically strict discipline
We’ve all felt the urge to impose order on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54AMTuesday, August 5, 2025
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghIn an impressive show, Sami Abu Wardeh delivers a collage of historical storytelling, jokes about colonialism and clowning
When Sami Abu Wardeh performed his hit sho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMMonday, August 4, 2025
Orchard at the Gilded Balloon, EdinburghThe US star’s engaging set is largely an earnest love letter to her non-binary child and newly adopted home of Ireland
A month ago, Donald Trump bra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMMonkey Barrel, EdinburghThe charismatic standup rails against middle age with inventive and sometimes lurid material about the perimenopause
Desiree Burch is 46. For most comedians, this is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMSunday, August 3, 2025
Orchard at Gilded Balloon, EdinburghPerforming standup after a decade away, Davies rawly discusses his abuse by his father and delivers big laughs with other material
It’s been 10 years si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMMonday, July 21, 2025
It started in a strip joint and ended up bringing alternative comedy to our TV screens. Ahead of a new Edinburgh show, Peter Richardson tells us why his riotous creation still makes audience…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMWednesday, July 16, 2025
Artsdepot, LondonThe comedian staggers from the soft play area to deliver a sharp set about Sisyphus, capitalism and motherhood
Her last tour, Success Story, found Sara Pascoe in the loved-u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMMonday, July 14, 2025
The foppish comic underwent a drugs trial to fund his Edinburgh show – and caught malaria. The next year he almost died on stage with an exploded appendix. Why is he going back?
‘In retr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32AMMonday, July 7, 2025
Hammersmith Apollo, LondonMinchin embraces his oddball status – is he musician, comedian, auteur or clown? – in this three-hour show
It’s 20 years since Tim Minchin’s life-changing E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMMonday, June 30, 2025
Desiree Burch returns, Bridget Christie drops in and Toussaint Douglass flies while Joe Kent-Walters goes beyond the grave and Jazz Emu has a midlife crisis
It’s six years since Desiree Bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMTuesday, June 24, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonThe comic’s tale of his lifelong love affair with the US – and a doomed bid to make it big in Hollywood – is a great platform for his vocal and mimicry talent
‘I …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMMonday, June 23, 2025
How has Motherland writer Helen Serafinowicz followed up her TV hits? With a rollicking, sub-Game of Thrones epic based on a Liverpudlian legend. Will the happy couple go and see it?
The ben…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMWednesday, June 11, 2025
Royal Albert Hall, LondonDavies uses his ostentatiously puerile sense of humour to fine comic effect, with a series of stories capturing his long struggle to get over himself
Hold forth for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMTuesday, June 10, 2025
In a riotous show, Garry Starr dons a tailcoat, flippers and little else to re-enact a bookshelf full of classics. Would you help him bring The Jungle Book to life?
Comedy smash-hits come in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMMonday, June 9, 2025
Cliffs Pavilion, SouthendIn a show of two halves, the caustic standup is at her best when rolling her eyes at the weaker sex, but her post-interval crowd-counselling doesn’t quite cut it
H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMMonday, June 2, 2025
Assembly Rooms, EdinburghThe impressionist mixes modern politics with blasts from the past in a witty show that sticks to familiar ground
Topical comedy meets a trip down memory lane at Rory…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMFriday, May 30, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonChatty waiters, visiting the loo in company and overinvesting in sexual role-play are uproariously discussed alongside covers of Madonna, Britney and Dolly Parton
For fan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMMonday, May 26, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonIt’s not as big-hitting as her debut but this sophomore comedy show proves Gray is a brilliant entertainer and wind-up merchant
To say that Jordan Gray made an eye-cat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM 
