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Tom Wrigglesworth: Utterly at Odds with the Universe
On the back of another stellar sell-out Fringe run, Yorkshire comedian-cum-raconteur Tom Wrigglesworth is elbowing his way into the impermeable storytelling ... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Robin Ince: What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?
What happens when you put an atheist in a field of believers? This week, the brilliantly bookish Robin Ince, stand up, actor, book-disector and co-host of th... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Tim Key: Single White Slut
There’s a book that lives in my bathroom: 25 Poems, 3 Recipes And 32 Other Suggestions. For seven years it’s camped out on the windowsi... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Abigoliah Schamaun: Love & Sex
After a year of touring Subtle, shocking and rocking audiences around the world with her particular flavour of dirty, seemingly autobiographical comedy, Abig... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Robin Ince @ Solas Festival, Sat 21 Jun
It’s well into the Witching hour by the time Robin Ince appears before us, in a huge converted barn playing mainstage for the weekend’s frivoliti... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Fogg & Friends @ Cowgatehead 2
With an audience mostly yanked off a drookit Edinburgh street, and into a crumbling room that resembles the interior of a Guantanamo holding cell, there&rsqu... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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The Circus @ Bosco Theatre, Assembly
The Invisible Dot have created something special in The Circus. Through a revival of dark vaudevillian charm, throughout August, the show plays host to weird... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Adam Strauss: The Mushroom Cure
‘The Mushroom Cure is guaranteed to change your life’ – sadly, it’s been 24 hours and my OCD is still giving my brain the finger. Ada... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Dan Cook: Community Service
Easily the most exuberant member of one-time sketch group, Delete the Banjax, Dan Cook is here on Community Service. Feeling the punitive downside of lobbing... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Opinion: It’s an Unfair Copstick, Guv
Out of context, it’s a pretty gauche opinion. When you attribute it to a discussion about rape it’s disturbing. Just as horrifying, is that it&rs... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Daniel Sloss: Beyond the Hair and Jeans
Almost everything I read about Daniel Sloss refers to him as a ‘young comedian,’ as if the number of monotonous days clocked up on planet Earth h... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Brothers and Sisters, It's the Reverend Obadiah Steppenwolfe III
“He’s a wrong ‘un, isn’t he?” a worryingly drunk punter gleefully imparts into my ear as we’re treated to a clunky rendit... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Richard Gadd: Cheese and Crack Whores @ Blackfriars Basement, Glasgow International Comedy Festival
Richard Gadd is clearly having a bad time. So bad, in fact, that it's debatable which would be better - to review him, or refer him to the Samaritans. This i... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Calypso Nights @ Roxy
¿Te gusta esto? On the stage stands a dual-turntable. Inexplicably draped with an over-sized Mexican flag and adorned with technicoloured marac... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Richard Gadd: Breaking Gadd @ The Counting House
Picking up from the most disturbing chapter of Richard Gadd’s life, Breaking Gadd (completely unrelated to Breaking Bad) is another disturbing docu-com... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Sheeps: Wembley Previews @ Bedlam Theatre
How many times can you reinvent the wheel? Is it even possible to do something completely fresh with such a road-worn format? Well, comedy trio, Sheeps (Dara... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Pleasance at 30: Emerging Talent on the Fringe
Charlie Hartill: writer, performer, one-time president of the Cambridge Footlights, with an eight-year stint on the Fringe board of directors; died at the ag... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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Abbie Murphy: Girl on Fire @ The Counting House
In a Towie-tainted world, you’d be forgiven for thinking an hour spent in Stephanie Vange’s bedroom would be a nightmare; a tanned-in-the-wool Es... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
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The Skinny Awards: Shortlist Announced
As champions of emerging talent, we’re using our position as Scotland’s largest independent arts and culture magazine to pay homage to the pletho... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Abigoliah Schamaun: Subtle @ The Caves
Loveable sideshow nutjob Abigoliah Schamaun is back in Edinburgh with another in-your-face hour. Without a central theme, she has free reign to talk about he... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Jamie Demetriou: People Day
People Day is unlike anything I’ve seen this year. The incongruous props littering the stage, and manic chatter between a cluster of lamps set a suitab... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Chris Coltrane: Compassion is Subversive
Chris Coltrane is back in Edinburgh with his second hour-long poke at our perfunctory political leanings. Unlike your average jobbing comic, his sights are s... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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The Curse of Elizabeth Faulkner
Billed as a suspense-filled Edwardian horror-comedy, The Curse of Elizabeth Faulkner was not the sum of its parts. With a cast of four, it recounts the ... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Mae Martin: Slumber Party
It’s hard not to like Mae Martin. Spending an hour with her and claiming otherwise would be like saying you hate ice cream or are really for fascism; f... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Ellis and Rose: The 'Punch' and Judy show
Edinburgh in August. The streets are awash with gaudy Oxbridge try-hards, unenthusiastic flyerers and enough bits of paper to make a tree weep. With famous f... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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The Art of Happiness: An Interview with Trevor Lock
Stand up comedian. Playwright. Actor. Living-room surfer. Beleaguered treat-eater. Russell Brand’s kitten-faced whipping boy. I’ve been a fan of ... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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The Skinny 100: Look Back in Laughter
Over the last eight years The Skinny Comedy section has featured an enormous number of acts at all stages of their careers, from the salad days of terrified ... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Doug Segal: I Can Make You a Mentalist
Doug Segal. Former ad-man, professional mind reader and according to Time Out, the UK’s 'best kept entertainment secret.' For those acut... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Devitt and Storrie @ State Bar, Glasgow International Comedy Festival
As Devitt and Storrie take the floor in the crowded basement of the State Bar, there is a palpable sense of mischief. A prickling sense that something is afo... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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"The People's Poet is dead." Rik Mayall Remembered
“The People’s Poet is dead. But how can he be dead when we still have his poems?” I’ll confess it was an idle flick through Twitter ... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago