Mark Silcox: Helping Aamer
18/08/2016 … Anti-comedian Mark Silcox performed one of my least favourite shows of last year’s Fringe, his wilfully unfunny talk on electrochemiluminescence and tediously…
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Thu 18 August 2016
Emma Sidi: Telenovela
18/08/2016 … Emma Sidi has worked out that, to British audiences at least, speaking in Spanish is funny.
Jiggle & Hyde Present: Sketchy Mother Pluckers
18/08/2016 … A mini-conference suite is a hard place to crack a smile, but those who made it to the eighth floor of the Jurys Inn hotel were rewarded with an entertaining hour…
Sofie Hagen: Shimmer Shatter
18/08/2016 … Sofie Hagen saves all her goodies until the end… you don’t really know where all her anecdotes are leading until the coda after the bucket speech asking for…
Luke Kempner: Judi Dench Broke My Heart
18/08/2016 … There’s a fair amount of snobbery around impressions in comedy; they’re seen as gimmicky and old-fashioned.
Wed 17 August 2016
Felicity Ward: 50% More Likely To Die
17/08/2016 … Amid all the big issues being tackled by comedy, this is an hour-long show about that time Felicity Ward left her bag on the bus.
Phil Ellis Is Alone Together
17/08/2016 … He filled and he filled and he filled.