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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ComedyPaul Ricketts: Announcing the truly free fringe
Free shows are never really free, you always have to stick some money in the bucket at the end. Until now. Paul Ricketts explained why he's opened the doors to his show and made it truly free Read more »| 20 Aug 2012 -
ComedyLaurie Rowan, Nicholas Cooke and Keiron Nicholson: Gentlemen Bears
Bears don’t often get a platform on the PBH Free Fringe, so the barrage of bear jokes from Laurie Rowan was certainly a break from the norm. The combin... Read more »| 19 Aug 2012 -
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Totally Tom
If your only exposure so far to Tom Palmer and Tom Stourton is from their rather lacklustre appearances on BBC3’s “Live At The Electric”, b... Read more »| 19 Aug 2012 -
ComedyKumail Nanjiani
Pakistan-born Kumail Nanjiani lives and performs in the US, and this is his first visit to Edinburgh. His first acute observation about Fringe flyers might n... Read more »| 19 Aug 2012 -
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Mark Nelson: Under The Radar
Glaswegian comic Mark Nelson begins with the almost-compulsory-by-now criticism of his venue, the Underbelly White Belly. These aggressive outbursts punctuat... Read more »| 19 Aug 2012 -
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Taylor Glenn: Reverse Psycomedy
Stuck in an anti-social 11.30pm timeslot upstairs in the Gilded Balloon, American Taylor Glenn spends a lot of time telling us about her life before she beca... Read more »| 19 Aug 2012
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Mark Cooper-Jones: Geography Teacher
Despite rather resembling a prime candidate to have his lunch money stolen by the playground bullies, Mark Cooper-Jones takes to the stage in the persona of ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2012 -
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Robert Finn: Dear Dan Brown...
Having a pop at Dan Brown might seem like shooting fish in a barrel, but Finn manages to put an interesting spin on it with a episotolary show that's structu... Read more »| 18 Aug 2012 -
ComedyTom Webb: MegaGames
The Olympics may have ended but, in a tiny room in the back of a pub in Edinburgh, Tom Webb is working hard to feed Britain's hunger for sporting glory. He's... Read more »| 18 Aug 2012 -
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Luke Graves: A Degree Of Comedy
"There's a degree of comedy in everything," says Graves, to which you kind of think, "yeah, we'd heard". It's a lead in to a fairly straightforward observ... Read more »| 18 Aug 2012 -
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Fliss Russell: Life Is Fliss
Welcome to the weird world of Fliss Russell, failed actress, children's entertainer, time traveller and proud ginger. Today's show is heavy on audience parti... Read more »| 18 Aug 2012 -
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Patrick Monahan: Shooting From The Lip
Patrick Monahan is a seasoned comedian - a comedy festival regular and the winner of ITV’s Show Me The Funny last year. It’s no surprise that thi... Read more »| 18 Aug 2012 -
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The Trap: Bad Musical
The Trap, an established London-based sketch comedy trio composed of Dan Mersh, Paul Litchfield and Jeremy Limb, return to the Fringe with their latest ode t... Read more »| 18 Aug 2012 -
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Vikki Stone: Hot Mess
Any show which presents Phillip Schofield in a new, slightly more intriguing/disturbing light deserves considerable comedy kudos. Vikki Stone, troubadour,imp... Read more »| 18 Aug 2012 -
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Mick Foley: How a wrestler fell in love with the Fringe
Concluding our Foley In Edinburgh trilogy, the man himself writes about how Edinburgh helped him to find his own voice and how a small, teatime comedy show helped him understand the true spirit of the Fringe Read more »| 18 Aug 2012