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Four World Cups and One World Pope review - SkinnyFest 2
At times, it's like being in the room with a borderline misogynist. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Justin Edwards review - SKINNYFest 2
That was the shipping forecast. And now there's just time to tell you about another programme coming up on Radio 4. Former Perrier Best Newcomer Justin Edwar... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Reading Between the Lines - SkinnyFest 03
Last year, Brendan Burns followed a long line of comics when he finally succumbed to years of drug abuse. But why do hedonism and hilarity so often graviate towards each other?
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Frankie Boyle review - SkinnyFest
There's all this talk about gay marriage, announces Frankie Boyle in a tone of affected informality. "I don't know what all the fuss is about. I'd have loved... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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SkinnyFest 3 - The Friends of Jack Kairo
A passably-convincing presentation of the challenging one-man routine. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Gamarjobat review - SkinnyFest)
Highly acclaimed 'silent-comedy' practitioners Gamarjobat return to Edinburgh this year with a show that delights and frustrates in equal measure. The openin... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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SkinnyFest 3 - Ha Ha Yum
a delightful 60 minutes of Southern Irish humour polished off with dainty iced fairy cakes or crumbling, still-warm krispie cakes Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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SKINNYFEST 3 - Shamwagon
They crossed the canals of hilarity, climbed the mountains of ridiculousness, jumped the hahas of the hysterical. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Paul Sinha review - SkinnyFest 2
Paul Sinha is a man blessed with so much natural material that his comedy contempories could carve him up among themselves and dine out on the laughs for yea... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Russell Kane review - SkinnyFest 2
Like a sugar-coated soft-chew bar called Tourette's, Russell Kane bounds and slithers and twitches around the stage, reminding us that it's important to star... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Adam Hills review - SkinnyFest 2
Anyone who can sit through an hour of Adam Hills and not come out with renewed sense of optimism and joy is not worth knowing. This is because Adam is a fund... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Dutch Elm Conservatoire review - SkinnyFest 2
Prison has never really appealed to me. Bad food, soap, S&M, yeech. Yet, being in prison with last year's Perrier-nominated quintet, the Dutch Elm Conservato... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Tim Minchin review - SkinnyFest 2
I'll never read Prufrock without fondly thinking of my nether regions again! Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Mark Watson - SkinnyFest 2
Fast-talking Welsh boy Mark Watson won over audiences with his debut show last year, and expresses concern that this year will be as disappointing as an aver... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
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Paddy Lannigan -Songs of the Unhinged - SkinnyFest 2
Quite simply the worst show I have ever seen. Ever. Poor deluded Paddy thinks it's funny to lip synch in front of a screenful of pictures and animated cartoo... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006