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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Comedy
Which One's Fergal?
On stage, there is a man wearing an ostentatious hoodie and a baseball cap with ‘Skillz’ sharpied on, talking in a Brummie accent and claiming to... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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Ester and Son: Happiness
Ester And Son. Esther Rantzen. That slightly lame joke is part of a cunning disguise, intended to make you think you're watching a shambles when you're actua... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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Caroline Mabey: One Minute Silence
Right from the off, Caroline Mabey wants you to feel part of the show. She greets each of us individually as we enter and welcomes us to her training course,... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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Abi Roberts: Takes you Up The Aisle
This is a genuinely odd show, and even at the end of it I still wasn’t 100% sure what genre it was. In her fifties-style wedding dress, Roberts narrat... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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Phill Jupitus: Stand Down
It's a Fringe tradition, seeing a big TV name attempt to 'return to their standup roots' only to die on their hole night after night, leaving their audience ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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Barry and Stuart: Show and Tell
Victims of the Fringe programme's all-encompassing 'Comedy' section, Barry and Stuart's Show and Tell is eminently entertaining, if not exactly what you woul... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011
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Comedy
Ahir Shah: Astrology
In last year's How I Escaped My Certain Fate, Stewart Lee wrote that seeing the up-and-coming Ahir Shah affect a mental breakdown while wandering amongst the... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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Abie Philbin Bowman: Pope Benedict, Bond Villain
Abie Philbin Bowman nods humbly to two inspirations: the Marxist peasant in Monty Python & The Holy Grail; and his own sister, an 'emotional ninja' and s... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
The Bitch Doctors
The premise for The Bitch Doctors is a pretty slack one. As the audience enters they’re given a slip of paper on which to write their ‘problem.&... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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Tobias Persson: Sitting on a Cornflake
Tobias Persson is from Sweden. The crowd's not sure if English being his second language will make for an uncomfortable hour, or if he will even be able to b... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Richard Herring: What is Love, Anyway?
As if it isn't difficult enough for comedians to come up with a solid hour's worth of jokes in time for the Fringe, many audiences expect them to weave the m... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
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Craig Hill: Blown By a Fan
By far the funniest moment in Craig Hill's 'Blown By a Fan' is when he first bounds on to the stage, accompanied by Lady Gaga's Born This Way. He performs a... Read more »| 23 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Todd Barry: American Hot
Todd Barry is a softly-spoken, deadpan American comic and his style this afternoon is mirrored by his audience. Perhaps too used to playing larger club ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2011 -
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Interview: Neil Hamburger
America’s funnyman Neil Hamburger, has been in the biz’ for over twenty years playing to sellout crowds, and opening for bands like Faith No More... Read more »| 22 Aug 2011 -
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Tom Bell: Tom Bell Begins
Tom Bell's journey from an obscure village near Nottingham to his life as a London-based stand up is framed by the hallmarks of a Hollywood thriller in this ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2011