99 Red Balloons In A Trench Coat
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
22/08/2025 … Of all the slick, sophisticated sketch shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, 99 Red Balloons In A Trench Coat is not one of them.
2025 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Fri 22 August 2025
Holly Gow: How Can(t) I Help?
Edinburgh Fringe theatre review
22/08/2025 … Since Adam Kay’s soaraway success, every aspect of working for the NHS has been probed in the name of comedy.
© Steve Ullathorne So You Think You’re Funny? 2025 grand final
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
22/08/2025 … So You Think You’re Funny? is the third, and most high-profile, competition Madeleine Brettingham has won this year, and with such a distinctive and all-encompassing…
Thu 21 August 2025
Susan Harrison: Should I Still Be Doing This?
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
21/08/2025 … Few careers advisors would suggest ‘pretending to be a woman who swallowed a girl who’s trapped in a well’ as a viable vocation, so it’s…
Jess Carrivick: For Your Consideration
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
21/08/2025 … Jess Carrivick’s show opens with a montage of adorable home videos she and her brother Jack shot as children, between the years of 1995 and 2001.
Slugs
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
21/08/2025 … The Creepy Boys are keen to make Slugs a show about nothing.
I Am Claire Parry (Very Funny Stand-Up)
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
21/08/2025 … ‘I’ve got nothing to say and a show in which to say it,’ laments the inspiration-deprived comedian that Claire Parry has become.
Anna Hale: Control Freak
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
21/08/2025 … Control freakery? It’s not the worst personality trait you could have.