Gareth Waugh: Honestly?
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Jay Richardson
11/08/2017 … At the close of his show, Gareth Waugh justifies its gimmickry with a suggestion that Donald Trump's dubious relationship to facts has made the truth important…
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Fri 11 August 2017
Dave Johns: I. Fillum Star
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
11/08/2017 … If you want three ways NOT to open a comedy show, how about a) showing sobering footage of how the benefit system dehumanises the sick and the needy; b) bragging…
Thu 10 August 2017
Nick Revell vs Lily, Evil Cat Queen of Earth Planet And The Laughing Fridge
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Paul Fleckney
10/08/2017 … Here’s a curious thing – political comedian of weight, substance and integrity Nick Revell has a new show that’s part-fantasy, part-animal whimsy.
Alice Marshall: Blood
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
10/08/2017 … Alice Marshall is clearly investing a lot in her creations, with more than half the characters in Blood returning from last year’s debut, suggesting she’s…
Andy Stedman - Parental Guidance
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Paul Fleckney
10/08/2017 … Oof, quite a painful hour in one of the upper-most corners of the Counting House.
Douglas Walker: Zuschauer
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
10/08/2017 … There’s a lot of invention in Douglas Walker’s sophomore show, not least in a quintessentially ‘Fringe’ stunt which he’s devised –…
Viv Groskop: Anchorwoman
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Julia Chamberlain
10/08/2017 … A show about news, fake news, digital media and taking a break from news if we can.
Sara Pascoe: LadsLadsLads
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
10/08/2017 … This is something of a departure from Sara Pascoe’s recent work, which has offered a well-researched, hard-hitting commentary on the likes of chauvinism, oppression…