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¿Te gusta esto?  On the stage stands a dual-turntable. Inexplicably draped with an over-sized Mexican flag and adorned with technicoloured marac... Read more »

Picking up from the most disturbing chapter of Richard Gadd’s life, Breaking Gadd (completely unrelated to Breaking Bad) is another disturbing docu-com... Read more »

How many times can you reinvent the wheel? Is it even possible to do something completely fresh with such a road-worn format? Well, comedy trio, Sheeps (Dara... Read more »

Charlie Hartill: writer, performer, one-time president of the Cambridge Footlights, with an eight-year stint on the Fringe board of directors; died at the ag... Read more »

In a Towie-tainted world, you’d be forgiven for thinking an hour spent in Stephanie Vange’s bedroom would be a nightmare; a tanned-in-the-wool Es... Read more »

As champions of emerging talent, we’re using our position as Scotland’s largest independent arts and culture magazine to pay homage to the pletho... Read more »

You have to give the girl some credit; she is slick. She’s clearly at home on the stage, and it shines in her delivery; hardly surprising for someone w... Read more »

I’ve been thinking about this show rather a lot. In fact, since I first pocketed an austere flyer emblazoned with ‘PICK ME UP’ in unmistaka... Read more »

Despite a healthy interest in Lego, I’m not a prepubescent boy; the arrival of the 90s and a bodacious rack saw to that. I’ve retired my childhoo... Read more »

Having the crowd in fits before the show has even begun is a pretty solid start. Making light of his bijou Underbelly room, Morgan has a giggle and a chinwag... Read more »

Fans of The Sunday Defensive will be pleased to hear that despite devouring an entire block of Red Leicester daily in Fringe 2010, Jacob Edwards isn’t ... Read more »

Frankie Boyle divides comedy fans harder than Moses did the Red Sea; or at least he would, if that wasn’t a totally made-up story in A.D.’s bests... Read more »

On the back of another stellar sell-out Fringe run, Yorkshire comedian-cum-raconteur Tom Wrigglesworth is elbowing his way into the impermeable storytelling ... Read more »

What happens when you put an atheist in a field of believers? This week, the brilliantly bookish Robin Ince, stand up, actor, book-disector and co-host of th... Read more »

There’s a book that lives in my bathroom: 25 Poems, 3 Recipes And 32 Other Suggestions. For seven years it’s camped out on the windowsi... Read more »

After a year of touring Subtle, shocking and rocking audiences around the world with her particular flavour of dirty, seemingly autobiographical comedy, Abig... Read more »

It’s well into the Witching hour by the time Robin Ince appears before us, in a huge converted barn playing mainstage for the weekend’s frivoliti... Read more »

With an audience mostly yanked off a drookit Edinburgh street, and into a crumbling room that resembles the interior of a Guantanamo holding cell, there&rsqu... Read more »

The Invisible Dot have created something special in The Circus. Through a revival of dark vaudevillian charm, throughout August, the show plays host to weird... Read more »

Loveable sideshow nutjob Abigoliah Schamaun is back in Edinburgh with another in-your-face hour. Without a central theme, she has free reign to talk about he... Read more »

People Day is unlike anything I’ve seen this year. The incongruous props littering the stage, and manic chatter between a cluster of lamps set a suitab... Read more »

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 »

Billed as a suspense-filled Edwardian horror-comedy, The Curse of Elizabeth Faulkner was not the sum of its parts. With a cast of four, it recounts the ... Read more »

It’s hard not to like Mae Martin. Spending an hour with her and claiming otherwise would be like saying you hate ice cream or are really for fascism; f... Read more »

Edinburgh in August. The streets are awash with gaudy Oxbridge try-hards, unenthusiastic flyerers and enough bits of paper to make a tree weep. With famous f... Read more »

Stand up comedian. Playwright. Actor. Living-room surfer. Beleaguered treat-eater. Russell Brand’s kitten-faced whipping boy. I’ve been a fan of ... Read more »

Over the last eight years The Skinny Comedy section has featured an enormous number of acts at all stages of their careers, from the salad days of terrified ... Read more »

Doug Segal. Former ad-man, professional mind reader and according to Time Out, the UK’s 'best kept entertainment secret.' For those acut... Read more »

As Devitt and Storrie take the floor in the crowded basement of the State Bar, there is a palpable sense of mischief. A prickling sense that something is afo... Read more »

“The People’s Poet is dead. But how can he be dead when we still have his poems?” I’ll confess it was an idle flick through Twitter ... Read more »