2026 Archives

Fri 07 August 2026

Georgia Polly-Taylor: Very Hot. Very Messy.

07/08/2026 … Georgia Polly-Taylor takes a lot of wild stabs in her first solo show, gesturing at some big themes and drawing on some big influences, unfortunately without…

'Her sketches are like tiny documentaries'

Ellie Ross's comedy favourites

07/08/2026 … Ellie Ross is at the Edinburgh Fringe with Mrs Gary Breath, a theatrical comedy show about wedding culture and the pressure to get married.

Gareth Gwynn: Cyril

Edinburgh Fringe comedy review

07/08/2026 … It should come as little surprise that Gareth Gwynn’s tribute to his great-grandfather Cyril – a poet who chronicled the ways of rural Wales, becoming…

I thought I had to mine my life for comedy. Big mistake

Vix Leyton on giving up confessional stand-up, and finding a renewed joy in her work

07/08/2026 … For a long time, I was locked to a fairly traditional idea of what my stand-up should look like: personal, self-deprecating and built around mining my own…

Leo Hincks at Chortle's Fast Fringe

Edinburgh debutant on the oppressive demands of a three-minute set

07/08/2026 … Leo Hincks talks about how he struggles with the ‘brief Intense intimacy’ required for performing a three-minute set at Chortle’s Fast Fringe.