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With a glance at Elf Lyons’ CV, it looks like she’s nearly done it all. She's written and directed plays and also rock operas for the Fringe, spe... Read more »

With a dash of The Imitation Game and a large dollop of Frankenstein, F.R.A.N.C [★★★] is a new comedic play from John McGlade and Keir McAllister, and t... Read more »

Immigration, that buzzword of so many headlines, is hard enough when you speak the language. Eric Lampaert, Frenchman in disguise, boasts American, UK and tr... Read more »

Well-meaning and not-at-all-well-meaning people alike have told Shappi Khorsandi she’s not English, despite having lived in Blighty since the age of th... Read more »

A Little Bit of Personal offers some refreshingly straight-up stand-up from a local. Or close enough: Gary Little is from Glasgow, a regular on the live scen... Read more »

Around the same time that pop icon David Bowie died last year, Michael Legge’s beloved dog Jerk also died. This eleven-year relationship is one that wa... Read more »

At the top of her show, Twayna Mayne points out how few Black British women there are on the comedy circuit, and by extension at the Fringe. As part of one o... Read more »

Coming to the comedy circuit from an education in Law, Keith Farnan's concerns for his own life only feature financial security as an after-thought, while th... Read more »

You may know Dubus from his Gallic persona,All nonchalance, black clothes and fags,But tonight Alexis plays the unlikely ownerOf passport and sign-language g... Read more »

In the run up to May's general election we'll see any number of comedians take on all sides of the political spectrum. Liam Williams' show Capitalism sc... Read more »

Coming to see a comedian close to their home turf means you may be privy to any number of DVD extras that won’t come out at any other point during the ... Read more »

A bonafide psychic plays a major Edinburgh venue. She's talking to the dead; she's reading minds; she's seeing ghosts. She, presumably, doesn't tell her audi... Read more »

Finding time for a bite to eat in between shows can be tricky for any comic, so George Egg: Anarchist Cook [★★★★☆] found his way around late-night sandwiches... Read more »

Tales of lost loves and desperate reconciliations have made up the background of Fringe shows for years, and serve a double purpose: the comic can exami... Read more »

In the programme for Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky's new comic play Impossible [★★★★☆], the two principle characters of Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doy... Read more »

If Michael Burgos gives a eulogy for you it will be highly physical, emotive and performed in a number of different voices. Eulogy [★★★★] has toure... Read more »

Polished, wonderfully staged and with a great soundtrack, Kill the Beast’s Don’t Fear the Damp [★★★] tells the story of Juniper Berry, a now... Read more »

Sarah Kendall is bracketed as a storytelling comedian, and in Shaken [★★★★] she details how much of a storyteller she was long before becoming a comedia... Read more »

We’re on a quest for self-satisfaction and self-acceptance, and the pun in the title of Helen Duff’s show on the female orgasm (Come With Me) is ... Read more »

A blend of half-baked magic tricks and anti-climactic games, Sam Fletcher’s Daftwerk is more than a little confusing. Once we’re on board with th... Read more »

This is a style of show that often has you giggling from nervousness and bafflement just as much as from timing or wordplay. So go into Lucy Hopkins’ P... Read more »

An alumnus of the Edinburgh Revue, Hari Sriskantha brings his first full-length solo show to the Fringe with a spring in his step. Sriskantha aims to teach u... Read more »

On the face of it, Demi Lardner’s show Look What You Made Me Do is the story of Gavin, a bizarre and distracted man locked in his basement with only a ... Read more »

When we talk about disabilities in popular culture it’s usually with a healthy dose of sympathy that can turn easily into pity. Jamie MacDonald, whose ... Read more »

As musical comedy act Jonny & the Baptists tour their hit show Eat the Poor, the satirical duo's Paddy Gervers tells us about deliberately taking a polit... Read more »

In the comedy world we’re increasingly seeing performers introduce us to their inner demons. Yet there is a cruel irony in choosing to bare your lonely... Read more »

There have been many Sherlock reboots and adaptations of late; who would win in a Battle Royale-style detective-off between the main contenders: Benedict Cum... Read more »

In September last year, something exceptional happened. The Scottish Independence Referendum brought 85% of Scottish voters out to the polling booths, and ... Read more »

As Assembly, Gilded Balloon, Pleasance and Underbelly launch their combined Fringe programme in Edinburgh, here's our pick of four big comedy shows from the ... Read more »

"This Fringe was full of surprises: I was pretty downbeat going into Miss Behave's Game Show but left elated. I also never expected the delicious slice of fe... Read more »