Dana Alexander
12/08/2011 … Newly arrived in Britain from Canada, Dana Alexander’s Fringe debut shows her as an adept, charming and astute comedian – warmly funny with a impishly sarcastic…
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Fri 12 August 2011
Paul Daniels: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
12/08/2011 … Over a lifetime on stage, Paul Daniels has built up the sort of fame the young bucks of Edinburgh can only dream of.
Jeff Leach: A Leach On Society
12/08/2011 … Good stand-ups reveal something about themselves in their performance, and within seconds I learned something significant about Jeff Lynch, without him having to…
Briefs
12/08/2011 … Rummage inside these Briefs and there’s some pleasant surprises… but also a few things you’d probably rather not encounter.
Thu 11 August 2011
Humphrey Ker is Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher!
11/08/2011 … As familiar Edinburgh sketch group The Penny Dreadfuls splits, Spice Girls-like, into a new batch of solo careers, Humphrey Ker makes his debut with a gung-ho, Boys-Own…
Steve Hall: Very Still Life
11/08/2011 … Comedy works by exaggerating the trivial – just how many Edinburgh shows are based on an incident in a stand-up’s life, blown up to provide supposedly great…
Alan Sharp: Hate It With Me
11/08/2011 … The Free Fringe is a wonderful thing, but sometimes you’d wish they’d make at least a slight nod to professionalism.
Totally Tom
11/08/2011 … Standing out is the most difficult thing for any show on this overcrowded fringe; and gimmick-free sketch shows probably have it the hardest.