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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ComedyRachel Stubbings: Stubbing out Problems
It's always a brave move to incorporate a period of total silence into your comedy act, but Stubbings carries this off beautifully; and the quiet in the... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
ComedyGearoid Farrelly: Turbulence
For his first Fringe show, rising Irish comedian Gearoid Farrelly tackles all the little things that cause turbulence in his life, from break-ups to the deat... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
ComedyHitch and Mitch: The Stinky Show
The props are puerile, the jokes terrible, the sketches simplistic and stretched, and in all it feels very amateurish. So it shouldn’t work. ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
ComedyBilly the Mime
The film The Artist had such beautiful music, was so well performed, that it was easy to forget there was no spoken dialogue in it; and because it stuck in t... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
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Stuart Black: Sex, Money, Death
It's difficult to know what to expect when, moments before a show is due to start, the performer shakes your hand and asks if you are his audience. Luckily, ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012 -
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Michael Redmond: Mannequins, Fishmongers, Guacamole and Me ... and Other Things
This show could so easily have been awful. A comic who hilariously phones back an audience member’s mobile caller, a bizarre mannequin (in a going-out ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2012
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Paul 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 -
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Laurie 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 -
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Kumail 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 -
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Tom 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