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Newsrevue [2008]
01/01/2008 … Launched in 1979, NewsRevue is London's longest-running current affairs sketch show and something of a Fringe institution.
Tue 01 January 2008
Learn to Play the Ukulele in Under an Hour (How George Formby Saved My Life)
01/01/2008 … This is just lovely; a straight-down-the-line, gentle, sweet, completely enchanting show, tinged with melancholy.
Zoe Gardner's Fault
01/01/2008 … A last-minute splurge of inventiveness drags this show from the brink of ignominy, after a disappointing collection of competent but uninteresting comic characters…
Who Writes This Crap?
01/01/2008 … A bold title indeed – and one that could easily rebound on poets Luke Wright and Joel Stickley.
Clarkson & Crouch: Away with the Fairies
01/01/2008 … Jonathan Clarkson and Rob Crouch have put together a set of sketches, some of which loosely reference each other.
Eco-Friendly Jihad
01/01/2008 … Abie Philbin Bowman is an undeniably brave comic, striving for thought-provoking satire.
Footlights: Devils
01/01/2008 … The annual show presented by Cambridge Footlights can be as much a turn-off as it is a draw at the Fringe.
Olivia Neville: Summat An' Nowt
01/01/2008 … Young Lancastrian Olivia Neville channels the gentle spirit of Joyce Grenfell in her Fringe debut.