Edinburgh Fringe
The Skinny guide to Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We bring you everything you need to get the most out of the Fringe, including previews, interviews, reviews and features.
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ComedyLights! Camera! Improvise!
There are many comedy improvisation shows at the Fringe, so you would think they each have a USP but, for many, they are defined by their audience. However,... Read more »| 15 Aug 2011 -
ComedyComedy Mayhem @ Bar 50
Comedy Mayhem is an odd mix of a show, with five amateur comedians finding their feet to varying degrees of success. Forcefully flirtatious (and LOUD) compe... Read more »| 15 Aug 2011 -
ComedyShinoxcy: There's No 'I' In Shinoxcy
This is the kind of show you should watch in your pyjamas while eating cereal. It's like a classic piece of Saturday morning telly: a big, daft, enjoyable me... Read more »| 14 Aug 2011 -
ComedyNathan Dean Williams Presents... The Buffet
Coulrophobia is the proper name for the fear of clowns. If you're not a sufferer already, ten minutes in the company of Nathan Dean Williams should change th... Read more »| 14 Aug 2011 -
TheatreEvil - The Musical @ Point Hotel
I was never born to be good. Read more »| 14 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Dan Antopolski, Tom Craine & Nat Luurtsema: Jigsaw
Craine, Antopolski & Luurtsema. A comedy fan's dream, a sub-editor's nightmare. They've combined forces to produce Jigsaw, a sketch group that firmly fav... Read more »| 14 Aug 2011
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Comedy
Political Animal
Given the Fringe occurs when the UK's political houses are in recess, comics at The Stand's late night Political Animal wouldn't usually have such a wealth o... Read more »| 13 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
James Loveridge and Other Losers
Tucked away downstairs in Jekyll and Hyde's, away from the flyer-saturated Old Town, it is easy to miss what may be two of the funniest young comedians I've ... Read more »| 13 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Tom and The Boy
Tom Stade's surreal interview with/love letter to The Boy With Tape on His Face. Read more »| 13 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Apocalypse Later?
The ten-man strong Apocalypse Later looks a lot like what your lads-on-tour might look like if they forgot about the trip to Xante one summer and formed... Read more »| 13 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Thom Tuck: Straight To DVD
He's posh, he prances, he's got a floppy fringe. There's a horrible moment when you think you have accidentally wandered into a McIntyre gig. Relax though, t... Read more »| 13 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Stephen Carlin – Guilty Bystander
Most of us at some point like to romanticise the rebel who breaks through the shackles of society. Stephen Carlin is known primarily, according to the introd... Read more »| 13 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Randy Is Sober
Heath McIvor's greatest creation works because he's so simple. A muppet-like puppet with a normal voice, Randy allows McIvor to talk openly to the audience w... Read more »| 13 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Phil Nichol – The Simple Hour
In a recent Skinny feature, Phil Nichol spoke of a need to go back to the simple elements of comedy following Edinburgh shows steeped in complexity and provo... Read more »| 13 Aug 2011 -
Comedy
Robin Ince & Michael Legge – Pointless Anger Righteous Ire 2
Surely I can't be listening to the anodyne pollution of the Lighthouse Family's Lifted on repeat as I take my seat near the front of Stand 5? The fine, phil... Read more »| 13 Aug 2011