The eyes have it
Olaf Falafel and Lou Sanders win Edinburgh Poster Awards
27/08/2018 … Lou Sanders and Olaf Falafel have each won £500 in the Comedy Poster Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Mon 27 August 2018
Sun 26 August 2018
Neil Simon dies at 91
‘One of the finest writers of comedy in American literary history'
26/08/2018 … Neil Simon, the playwright behind such comedies as The Odd Couple, has died at the age of 91.
Helen Lederer: I Might As Well Say It
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
26/08/2018 … Blame her natural dottiness, or blame the cannabis oil that she admits to having taken pre-show, but Helen Lederer’s Fringe comeback is way too ditzy to cohere…
Richard Hanrahan Is Doing This
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
26/08/2018 … Call it a dereliction of duties, but Richard Hanrahan has essentially crowdsourced his Edinburgh debut, asking his audiences ‘what is comedy?’…
Rachel Fairburn: The Wolf At The Door
Edinburgh Fringe review by Jay Richardson
26/08/2018 … If not always a takeaway message, most Fringe shows at least end with a neat resolution.
Justin Moorhouse: Northern Joker
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
26/08/2018 … ‘Northernness is not a badge I wear’, says Justin Moorhouse.
Ken Cheng: Best Dad Ever
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
26/08/2018 … Best Dad Ever marks an evolution in Ken Cheng’s style, away from the super-nerdy, often maths-based jokes, that are his natural metier and into the more personal…
Alistair Barrie: The InternationAL
Edinburgh Fringe review by Jay Richardson
26/08/2018 … With no less a stated aim than uniting the entire human race, Alistair Barrie's latest show is rarely so high-concept.