Comedy | Review
Lizzie Cass-Maran: Eddie Izzard has entered the 21st century. As we walk into the stadium at the SECC, giant screens feed live Twitter messages to the crowd, who are mo...
Film | Comedy | Review | DVD Review
Michael Gillespie: Sunshine Cleaning is a a lovely wee film. Not, however, in the way that so many American indies (In Search of A Midnight Kiss, Away We Go, 500 Days of...
Ann-Marie Reilly: There’s a packed house and a lively, attentive audience as compere Des Clarke takes the stage for the fourth installment of Ha Ha Comedy's annua...
Adrian Choa: It takes a lot of talent to pull off a comedy adaptation of George Orwell’s ‘1984’. To somehow turn an ominous narrative which explo...
Rebecca Gordon: Elis James is a risk-averse Welshman. Hence the cutesy title, an inspired choice by James following his agent’s demand to 'sex up' his forthcomi...
Edward Whelan: Bec Hill, kitted out in red and blue, wants to be a super hero. Tapping into the incorrigible childish joy of playing 'If you could have any super po...
Rebecca Gordon: ‘Almost award-winning’ Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler rework their 2008 if.comedy award nominated show with an extra pinch of kookines...
Edward Whelan: In the basement of the Underbelly, Barry and Stuart are having tea in china cups. Then Barry slices open his own neck. But the show is not all gorefe...
Rebecca Gordon: Save for a mildly derisive ‘promotional video’ opening the confused set, misleadingly titled The Silence of the Trams is distinctly tram-l...
Tom Hackett: This off-kilter two-man show from Australia is one of the unexpected highlights of this year’s Fringe. It’s a surreal sketch show in which...
Ariadne Cass-Maran: Last month, some twat from The Guardian wrote about the 'New Offenders' of comedy, citing Richard Herring's show, in which he claims that 'racists hav...
Becca Pottinger: Julian Clary glides out onto the Udderbelly stage in a pair of rollerblades dressed in a red tailcoat and top hat, seemingly for the sole purpose of a...
Theatre | Comedy | Review
Edward Whelan: This is not a good production. The set was adequate and the direction was unobtrusive (although one actor was left facing the wall for five minutes, a...
Edward Whelan: One of them had gone home already so out of 'Angus and Duncan' we just had the latter to lead us through an hour of stand up - instead of Angus we had...
Scotty McKellar: Barbara is a beautiful college girl just looking for the right guy, happily killing everyone else who gets in the way. When she meets a nice fellow wh...
