Sam Jay: We The People
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
23/08/2025 … Sam Jay is a strikingly abrasive act, eschewing eye contact, staring into the middle distance while speaking; often holding her mic in crossed arms; making big,…
2025 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sat 23 August 2025
Caroline McEvoy: Train Man
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
23/08/2025 … Caroline McEvoy is unfailingly nice in her Fringe debut, making latecomers feel welcome, chatting charmingly to the audience (no ‘comedian DESTROYS’…
Jack Barry: Let's Get Barried
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
23/08/2025 … Some Fringe comedy shows are deep and meaningful explorations of personal struggle and revelation.
Fri 22 August 2025
Jamie MacDonald: Toxic Bastard
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
22/08/2025 … Jamie MacDonald's recent shows have tended to be variations on the theme that just because he's blind, this doesn't preclude him from behaving badly.
Tiff Stevenson: Post-Coital
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
22/08/2025 … Tiff Stevenson has lured her audience here under false pretences, with a sultry poster and a title, Post-Coital, that suggests sexy times.
Pear: Phobia
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
22/08/2025 … Pear are such an established part of the Fringe now, with this, their fourth sketch show in a row, that any tweaks to their tried and tested formula feel like tinkering…
© Mindy Tucker Lily Blumkin: Nice Try
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
22/08/2025 … Nice Try has the theatrical, carefully performed tone of the off-off-Broadway one-woman show rather than the casual conversational style of a stand-up.
Prashasti Singh: Divine Feminine
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
22/08/2025 … As a straight woman of indeterminate but escalating years as this show becomes more candid, Prashasti Singh is nevertheless identifiably an unmarried woman –…