Eric Lampaert: Zero Minus One
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
13/08/2026 … Eric Lampaert's a comedian, but this is not a comedy, whatever its category in the Fringe programme says.
2026 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Thu 13 August 2026
Paul Hilleard: Grogg
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
13/08/2026 … From the damp, dark corners of Paul Hilleard’s enquiring mind emerge moving questions like, ‘Are worms wriggling in ecstasy or agony?’ Trouble…
Wed 12 August 2026
Amanda Knox: Cartwheel
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
12/08/2026 … Very few comedy reviews have to start with the assertion that the performer in question is definitively not a murderer, but we are where we are.
Bella Hull: Mad Cow Disease
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
12/08/2026 … Bella Hull starts her Fringe show with some brief, intense and intimidating crowd work, targeting audience members who’d feel most awkward, just to establish…
Underground Monk Show
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
12/08/2026 … Four monks discover a source of magical water that leads them into realms of dream and self-discovery, encountering some of life’s great rites and rituals…
Sam Eley is Basil Crumbwick: Soul Sewage
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
12/08/2026 … We’ve seen a comic genius in a papier-mâché head before, of course.
Adam Flood: Life and Death of the Party
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
12/08/2026 … Given the noise bleed at the Edinburgh Fringe, plenty of shows come with pounding musical backing.
Rosie Holt: The Illegal Aliens Have Landed!
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
12/08/2026 … Aliens have landed in every city on Earth, and a dithering backbench Labour MP has the task of managing the situation.