Wild Bore
Edinburgh Fringe theatre review by Steve Bennett
19/08/2017 … Uncharacteristically, Chortle's Steve Bennett starts his review by mentioning himself.
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Sat 19 August 2017
Matt Forde: A Show Hastily Rewritten in Light of Recent Events – Again!
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Paul Fleckney
19/08/2017 … Hey, America! You can keep your super-slick, alpha male satirists with suspiciously black hair.
Marny Godden is One Tooth
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
19/08/2017 … Silly and committed, Marny Godden is one of the more peculiar acts to grace the Fringe, although dedicating a full hour to a single, odd character – with…
Jonny Awsum: Honey I Promised The Kid
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Paul Fleckney
19/08/2017 … A feelgood, crowd-pleasing show if ever there was one.
Fri 18 August 2017
© Steve Ullathorne Tez Ilyas: Teztify
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
18/08/2017 … A rebellious streak runs through Tez Ilyas’s third solo show.
Tom Houghton: Class Half Empty
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Paul Fleckney
18/08/2017 … There’s posh, and there’s Tom Houghton posh.
Jan Ravens: Difficult Woman
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
18/08/2017 … Isn’t it time we had a female-led topical impressions show? That’s the abiding question you’ll have from Jan Ravens’s very-long-time-coming…
Natalie Palamides: LAID
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Jay Richardson
18/08/2017 … Although it's tempting to consider LAID philosophically from the perspective of the chicken and the egg – does audience reaction provoke the spectacle…