Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Assembly George Square, EdinburghThere are few bells and whistles in Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher’s fringe debut, just two seasoned US comics in effortless harmony with each other
Here�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PMThe baby-faced oddball has gone from performing to tiny audiences to winning live comedy’s most coveted prize, the Edinburgh festival fringe comedy award
What does an Edinburgh comedy awar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03AMMonday, August 29, 2022
I’ve spent my whole professional life loving and writing about the fringe. But rocketing rents, a lack of diversity and its overwhelming scale are pushing this world-class cultural crucibl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:55AMSunday, August 28, 2022
Underbelly Bristo Square, Edinburgh The Dave’s Edinburgh comedy awards best newcomer nominee carries a confidence and warmth that is hard to resist
In a lesser controversy at this year’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMFriday, August 26, 2022
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghThe standup puts her working-class status front and centre in this compelling and cathartic journey through her Covid years
Lauren Pattison had two ambitions f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PMMonkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghPugh shambles his diffident way into the spotlight with a stealthy, clever and heartwarming show
Incompetent, negative, a follower not a leader: Josh Pugh is h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMThursday, August 25, 2022
Monkey Barrel, EdinburghThe Australian comic takes incongruity to uncommon lengths – and this year he’s recalibrated his show towards warmth
“My mind is a prison full of crazy ideas. A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43AMMonkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghDean’s great skill is to make the audience feel like intimate confidantes, but sometimes his impatience to get to the next laugh weakens the shtick
It’s a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMWednesday, August 24, 2022
From Liz Kingsman’s ‘messy woman’ send-up to Seann Walsh’s memories of his off-screen Strictly kiss, the nine-strong shortlist is a triumph for diversity though not without glaring o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PMSamira Wiley makes her UK stage debut, there’s an urgent counter to antisemitism, plus a fourth King James, refugee dancers and comedic returns Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMMonday, August 22, 2022
They are the shock troops of comedy, pranksters who risk arrest and worse to ridicule the powerful. As two acclaimed practitioners – including the man who threw Nazi golfballs at Trump –…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMSunday, August 21, 2022
Underbelly, EdinburghOutlandish physical antics and a spontaneous stage presence keep Wardeh’s audience laughing as he clowns through a cast of oddball characters
Clown is in vogue again, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghHoult hangs up the dress and luvvie cadences of his fringe-staple alter ego Anna Mann in a camp, silly yet surprisingly emotional show
When a character comic bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMSaturday, August 20, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWilson relives her tumultuous turn as a teenage talent show contestant armed with laughter and song, topped with a touching tribute to her plucky younger self
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghOkatsuka’s slightly incapable, slightly on-edge persona is a fun time, whose yarn about an intruder frames material on marriage, mental illness and migration
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMFriday, August 19, 2022
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghThe answer may seem obvious but the commanding comic’s fringe debut eschews any clear structure with mixed results
Back in 2020, Thanyia Moore was planning h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMThe Mash House, EdinburghThe New Jersey comic mines his lineage for laughs in a pensive dispatch from cosa nostra America (or somewhere nearby)
The “dead dad” show is a fringe comedy cli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghMaturity has made the awkward standup more at ease with himself and lent heft and fruitful battle-scarring to his shtick
It’s a feature of standup that comedy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AMThursday, August 18, 2022
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghSherman’s show, pitched between anti-comedy, performance art and body horror, leaves no doubt why she’s also known as Sarah Squirm
Delightfully weird, says the p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMAssembly George Square, EdinburghPart observational, part autobiographical, The Real Hero in All This considers life from ever-surprising angles
Sixteen years in Malaysia, 16 in the UK. Thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37AMWednesday, August 17, 2022
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghAdam has lots to say – about proposals, weddings, football and houseplants – and delivers it with puppyish pleasure
There are worse qualities to bring to standup…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFrom jokes about men’s waning dominance to a teary anecdote, this show runs through a range of emotions on a post-breakup journey
Wanna feel weird? Try star-r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMTuesday, August 16, 2022
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghIn his debut fringe show OK Zoomer, the 22-year-old comic bounces between optimism and fatalism, delivering gags with a sly twinkle
Gen Z’ers have every reason to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Mischief Theatre regular delivers routines to fit the audience’s requests before heading down a darker path in an uneven show
“You can’t please everyo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMThe festival is in full swing with audiences crammed into comedy clubs. But is our global pandemic the elephant in the room?
Comedian Sam Nicoresti starts his show with an elaborate sanitisi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMQuestions of free speech offer no simple answers, but it’s clear that this is a watershed moment in comedy
If we don’t defend free speech, we live in tyranny. That’s the tenor of the c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMMonday, August 15, 2022
It’s a form of comedy that has fallen out of favour with TV, but a trio of fun acts are keeping the sketch flame alive
One of the pleasures of the fringe is checking in with standups as th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghA gang of New Zealand comics and their very special guests become Elvis impersonators, hobbits and chimney sweeps in a fun fringe night
Great was the excitement…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMSaturday, August 13, 2022
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghMischief Theatre are up to their old tricks as silly slapstick meets telepathy in a send-up of stage mentalism
Stage mentalism – the world of Derren Brown and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48PMFriday, August 12, 2022
Monkey Barrel @ The Hive, EdinburghThe endearing comic’s Edinburgh debut is a riotously inventive show that blurs notions of race, gender and disability
You could call Lara Ricote’s Edi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMUnderbelly, George Square, EdinburghIn her show All Change Please it’s marriage, not politics, that’s at the heart of the Mash Report satirist’s finest jokes
Rachel Parris always knew …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PM 
