John-Luke Roberts: Stdad-Up
31/08/2015 … Making jokes about ‘dead dad’ Edinburgh shows is probably more of a cliche than the emotive shows themselves these days.
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Mon 31 August 2015
© Mark Dawson Photography Marny Godden: Flap 'Em On The Gate
31/08/2015 … Marny Godden is an intriguing prospect, reminiscent at her best of the insane, surreal intensity of Matt Lucas’s George Dawes, but ultimately pole-axed by her…
Cassandra: Mary Canary
31/08/2015 … Decent magic tricks are packed up in an unedifying stream of cheap, lazy sex gags in this largely wit-free character-cabaret hybrid.
© Idil Sukan/Draw HQ Phil Nichol: I Don't Want To Talk About It
31/08/2015 … ‘Crazy Uncle Phil’ fires straight out the blocks with the supercharged, head-spinning frenetic energy we’ve come to expect, covering more ground in the first…
Eleanor Tiernan: Don't Cry For Me Eleanor Tiernan
31/08/2015 … There’s a story in Don’t Cry For Me Eleanor Tiernan when she recounts appearing on a daytime TV show in Ireland, during which the subject of the horse-meat…
Kyle Kinane: Ghost Pizza Party
31/08/2015 … At a strip club, being thrown out of a country for a drink-driving conviction, being stoned off his tits at work and abusing an animal… these are the settings…
Sun 30 August 2015
Al Porter Is Yours
30/08/2015 … Should Graham Norton vanish in mysterious circumstances, detectives should pay a visit to Al Porter, since he’d have the most to gain should a vacancy unexpectedly…
Have A Word
30/08/2015 … Abbie Murphy is in the slightly odd position of having created a credible and memorable character, nominated for the Amused Moose award no less, but after two Edinburgh…