Heidi Regan: Jekyll and Heidi
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
11/08/2025 … Heidi Regan has stood out ever since winning the BBC New Comedy Award in 2017, a justified victory she followed up in 2018 with a debut show which took its main…
Mon 11 August 2025
Shalaka Kurup's in therapy
Stand-up from Chortle's Fast Fringe
11/08/2025 … Here’s Shalaka Kurup talking about being a doctor – but not of the useful kind.
Sun 10 August 2025
Finlay and Joe: Pretend It's Fine
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
10/08/2025 … Another rhyming couplet of well-to-do white boys in matching suits, Finlay Stroud and Joe Peden are purveying some straight-down-the-line sketch comedy in their…
Andrew Doherty: Sad Gay AIDS Play
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
10/08/2025 … There are more than a few badly acted, laboriously written, achingly earnest melodramas at every Fringe.
© Ian Bowkett Jamie D'Souza: Brownie
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
10/08/2025 … There’s something immensely likeable about Jamie D’Souza, partly because an hour in his company never feels like you’re being attacked with charisma.
© Michael Julings Can we have a shorthand for ‘I think your work is cool but I’m not going to be weird about it’?
Cerys Bradley on the best and worst of the Edinburgh Fringe
10/08/2025 … Cerys Bradley is presenting Queer Tales for Autistic Folk at Underbelly Bristo Square at 2.
Sketch Show Bingo!
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
10/08/2025 … With a fairly traditional approach to sketch, Quirks and Foibles are not reinventing the wheel.
Why the Fringe is better when you're sober
There are much better ways to relieve stress, says Alex Stringer
10/08/2025 … I think we can all agree that comedians are mental, right? Like, telling jokes to strangers for validation and/or money is a weird thing to enjoy.