Comedy
Here is your roadmap to roaring laughter at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We bring you Edinburgh Fringe comedy reviews and previews.
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ComedyCome Flyer With Me: Martin Mor
August in Edinburgh and the war on the trees has begun. Every room has a show in it, every show has a flyer advertising the show, and every show has a team o... Read more »| 08 Aug 2011 -
ComedyCome Flyer With Me: Casual Violence
Returning to the Mile to flyer with Casual Violence! is a daunting prospect. Having an eight-strong flyering team sounds good on paper, but our group’s... Read more »| 08 Aug 2011 -
ComedyCasual Violence: Choose Death
Gloriously bleak and black, this is a weird and wonderful show more reminiscent of things like Charles Addams and Edward Gorey comic strips than any of Casua... Read more »| 08 Aug 2011 -
ComedySally-Anne Hayward: Don't Judge Me
This slot (midday) is is one of the toughest at the Fringe and the audience for this show are outnumbered by venue staff, but Sally-Ann Hayward rocks on like... Read more »| 08 Aug 2011 -
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Mick Sergeant: Mid-life Crisis - Live!
Lee Fenwick's alter-ego, unemployed Geordie shipbuilder Mick Sergeant, has been a hit at previous Fringes. Mixing dark humour with genuine sadness, he is the... Read more »| 08 Aug 2011 -
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Comic v Comic: Richard & Matt
Richard Herring imparts words of wisdom to solo first-timer Matt Forde. Read more »| 08 Aug 2011
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ComedySteve Gribbin: Laugh At First Sight
A long and eventful career in comedy is reminisced about in Steve Gribbin's Laugh At First Sight, starting with how his dad's deadpan wit inspired his intere... Read more »| 08 Aug 2011 -
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Raymond Mearns: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Stress...
Raymond Mearns restores a bit of Scottish pride to a city overrun by Londoners in front of an adoring home crowd tonight. With absolutely no attempt to tempe... Read more »| 08 Aug 2011 -
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Lee Camp: Yet Another American Mistake
He's American, he's political, he's inevitably going to be compared to Bill Hicks. Actually, Lee Camp is more like Richard Herring with a dash of Jon Stewart... Read more »| 07 Aug 2011 -
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Come Flyer With Me: Imran Yusuf
I've never been a big fan of flyering, it can get pretty boring standing around in the rain all day. But you have to do it when you're starting out. Myself ... Read more »| 07 Aug 2011 -
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Come Flyer With Me: Pistol & Jack
A cunning scheme I've used for getting attention is to promote myself as being for sale instead of the show. Flyers cost a lot of money. To save on printing... Read more »| 07 Aug 2011 -
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Come Flyer With Me: Ro Campbell
I'm going to be more selective with who I flyer this year. In the past I used to give them to anybody. Once, I saw a guy who was totally passed out in the st... Read more »| 07 Aug 2011 -
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Doug Segal: I Know What You're Thinking
Expectations at a free shows tend to be lowered. At Doug Segal’s Fringe debut, that ‘show us what you’ve got’ sentiment hun... Read more »| 07 Aug 2011 -
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Comic v Comic: Martin and John
Martin Mor tells John Scott of his long-harboured desire to sleep with Woody Allen. Read more »| 07 Aug 2011 -
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Diane Spencer: All-Pervading Madness
As the overblown pomp of Bonnie Tyler's I Need A Hero fades out, Diane Spencer locks into the energetic groove of this distinctive show with immediacy and pa... Read more »| 07 Aug 2011