John Tothill: This Must Be Heaven
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
03/08/2025 … John Tothill had the most perfect comic persona right out of the traps: a companionable, camp bon vivant, gloriously combining a generous spirit with low-rent hedonism.
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Sun 03 August 2025
Douglas Widick: Paperclip
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
03/08/2025 … Every year, dozens of underemployed American actors hurl themselves at the unfeeling granite face of the Fringe and are dashed to pieces amidst a world they couldn’t…
© Kim Newmoney Dylan Adler: Haus of Dy-lan
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
03/08/2025 … You can say what you want about Dylan Adler as long as you think he’s a star.
Sat 02 August 2025
Tom Rosenthal: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
02/08/2025 … As you can guess from the title, this is a show about how Tom Rosenthal thinks people perceive him.
© Lina Sakovinc?a Cabbage the Clown: Cinemadrome
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
02/08/2025 … Cabbage the Clown, the alter ego of Eliza Nelson, is a drag act that sent me scurrying to Wikipedia to do some research on the concept of drag, as Cabbage doesn’t…
Thor Stenhaug: One Night Stand Baby
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
02/08/2025 … For his official Fringe debut, after two years of 45-minute runs, Thor Stenhaug has gone for a straight-down-the-line ‘this is me’ introductory show,…
Edy Hurst's Wonderful Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Himself
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
02/08/2025 … Several years in development, this show betrays all the hallmarks of an ‘undertaking’, starting with Edy Hurst emerging on stage through a giant cauldron,…
Ozzy Algar: Speed Queen
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
02/08/2025 … Speed Queen is set in the last launderette on the Isle of Wight – though it may as well be Royston Vasey.