Amanda Knox: Cartwheel
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
12/08/2026 … Very few comedy reviews have to start with the assertion that the performer in question is definitively not a murderer, but we are where we are.
2026 Archives
Wed 12 August 2026
© Daryll Buchanan Where else can you see a see an 80-year-old woman performing a physics-defying see-saw sequence?
Chris Forbes on the best and the worst of the Fringe
12/08/2026 … Chris Forbes is at the Edinburgh Fringe with his show Father Christmas at Monkey Barrel Comedy at 13:30 daily.
Bella Hull: Mad Cow Disease
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
12/08/2026 … Bella Hull starts her Fringe show with some brief, intense and intimidating crowd work, targeting audience members who’d feel most awkward, just to establish…
Lost in translation?
Sammy J on converting Aussie references for a UK audience
12/08/2026 … ‘Sorry mate … what’s a Dunkaroo?’ Dammit.
Underground Monk Show
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
12/08/2026 … Four monks discover a source of magical water that leads them into realms of dream and self-discovery, encountering some of life’s great rites and rituals…
Sam Eley is Basil Crumbwick: Soul Sewage
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
12/08/2026 … We’ve seen a comic genius in a papier-mâché head before, of course.
Adam Flood: Life and Death of the Party
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
12/08/2026 … Given the noise bleed at the Edinburgh Fringe, plenty of shows come with pounding musical backing.
This was an iconic series for those of us in the gay bear world
Sam Morrison picks his comedy favourites
12/08/2026 … Sam Morrison – who previously found success with his show Sugar Daddy – is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with Duck, described as ‘a science-obsessed…