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…
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Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Fri 12 August 2011
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
Colin Hoult: Inferno
11/08/2011 … Still as dark as ever, Colin Hoult has this year moved from focussing on more macabre characters to ‘heroes’, mostly human ones but all inevitably flawed and…
Nick Helm: Dare To Dream
11/08/2011 … Nick Helm is comedy’s answer to glam rock, all swaggering machismo, aggressive posturing and energetic showmanship.
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.