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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ComedyFestival Of The Spoken Nerd
The geeks have inherited the earth and never before has there been a better time to do a show about physics and Excel. Festival of the Spoken Nerd, starring ... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
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Thrice
Nathan Dean Williams was last seen in Edinburgh in 2011 with his ferocious, malevolent series of sketches, The Banquet. This time he's roped in regular colla... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
ComedyHorse & Louis' Comedy Bingo!
Comedy bingo sounds like fun – something different for a night out. Horse and Louis themselves are perfectly amiable, both as hosts and comperes a... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
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Tommy Rowson: One Piece At a Time
Tommy Rowson mixes autobiographical material with observational comedy and fictional embellishments, all delivered with wry Welsh charm. A BBC New Comedy fin... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
ComedyDan 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 »| 28 Aug 2013 -
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Edward Aczel: Edward Aczel Lives in a Meaningless Shed
Edward Aczel Lives in a Meaningless Shed is a resounding failure. Sadly, he falls short of bombastic claims his show contains nothing worthy of even a titter... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013
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ComedyPete Cain: Everybody Out!
Pete offers a bold solution to problems currently blighting the UK due to, as he puts it, there simply being too many of us. He wants all of us out and for p... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
ComedyBruce Fummey - My Afro Celtic Angst @ Laughing Horse Comedy
For about an hour, Bruce Fummey lets the audience in on an experience not many have lived through—growing up as pretty much the only mixed-race ki... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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Rob Lloyd: Who, Me?
First up, David Tennant, if you're reading this, you look exactly like Rob Lloyd! It's time to gather round and release your inner geek. Put your inhibition... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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John Williams: My Son's Not Rainman
John Williams wants to dispel a myth – having an autistic child does not necessarily mean you've got a secret genius on your hands. His 11-year-old son... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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Grainne Maguire's One Hour All Night Election Special
It's 2.45pm on a rainy afternoon, and there's no better time to experience a love letter to everyone's favourite event in the political calendar: election ni... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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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 »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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Gareth Morinan is Playing the Numbers Game
Gareth Morinan is a data analyst/comedian who plays up statistics geekery with the help of PowerPoint graphs. His delivery is part deadpan, part apathy, but ... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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Alfie Brown – The Revolting Youth
“Subjectivity is a beautiful thing,” sighs Alfie Brown, responding as his latest hard-hitting punchline only prompts a few cackles from the back ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
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Jon Bennett: My Dad's Deaths
Australian Jon Bennett was here last year talking about travelling round the world taking pictures of things and pretending they were cocks. This heady and a... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013