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Carl Donnelly: Different Gravy

Carl Donnelly: Different Gravy

Carl Donnelly has written his autobiography and hopes to share it with his audience, despite the fact it hasn’t been published yet. 

The W. Kamau Bell Curve – Ending Racism In About An Hour

The W. Kamau Bell Curve – Ending Racism In About An Hour

Even from the offstage pre-amble, which wryly and shrewdly disassociates the use of the phrase ‘The N Word’ from the word itself - telling us that the former phrase won’t be … 

Bridget Christie: War Donkey

Bridget Christie: War Donkey

If a stand-up show concludes with an impassioned yell of the phrase ‘women’s rights are worth farting for’, chances are you’re not in the company of a normal stand-up. 

Barry and Stuart - Show and Tell: The Show

Barry and Stuart - Show and Tell: The Show

A magic show is fundamentally different from most other shows – because the success of the show is based on how much trickery can be covered up from the audience, rather than how… 

Cardinal Burns

Cardinal Burns

The best moments in Cardinal Burns’ victory lap run of six dates at the Fringe are when the duo ditch any notion of their characters resembling people in the real world and, a la… 

Mark Thomas: Extreme Rambling (Walking the Wall)

Mark Thomas: Extreme Rambling (Walking the Wall)

This comedy show is about the Israel-Palestine conflict and lasts for two hours. 

Rhys Darby - This Way to Spaceship

Rhys Darby - This Way to Spaceship

Rhys Darby is under no illusions as to why many of his audience will have turned up. 

Joanna Neary: Youth Club

Joanna Neary: Youth Club

If most people had a time machine, it’s unlikely their first choice of destination would be Truro in 1987. 

Sarah Kendall - Get Up, Stand-Up

Sarah Kendall - Get Up, Stand-Up

‘You’re a funny crowd tonight aren’t you? For the first ten minutes I was sure this gig had bombed’. 

Russell Kane: Manscaping

Russell Kane: Manscaping

After winning last year’s Edinburgh Comedy Award, Russell Kane’s marriage fell apart, he had a breakdown, and didn’t perform for a considerable part of the year. 

Helen Arney - Voice of an Angle

Helen Arney - Voice of an Angle

The idea of geek chic is a funny thing. 

Idiots of Ants

Idiots of Ants

If there’s one thing Idiots of Ants can’t be accused of, it’s a lack of enthusiasm. 

James Acaster - Prompt

James Acaster - Prompt

It’s rare for a Fringe stand-up show to devote a significant stretch of time to the correct pronunciation of Kettering Town F. 

Milton Jones: Lion Whisperer

Milton Jones: Lion Whisperer

Surreal humour is usually considered to be at odds with a comedic mainstream, though many who are named practitioners of the surreal are some of the most broadly watched of comics. 

Funk Rocket 5000

Funk Rocket 5000

Despite the midday showing time, Funk Rocket 5000 is a pitch-black comedy. 

The Horne Section - Live at the Grand!

The Horne Section - Live at the Grand!

It’s fair to say that you may as well put a sofa on a stage as big as the Pleasance Grand. 

Josie Long: The Future Is Another Place

Josie Long: The Future Is Another Place

I don’t think that political soapboxing should ordinarily have a place in comedy. 

Thom Tuck Flips Out

Thom Tuck Flips Out

Thom Tuck looks and sounds like a cross between David Mitchell and a long-lost sixth form teacher famed for getting a bit drunk. 

The Humble Quest for Universal Genius

The Humble Quest for Universal Genius

This Humble Quest offers up a madcap, frenetic late night quiz show, hosted by Mark Allen and diminutive, slightly eerie sidekick Eli Silverman, as a duo of guests take part in a n… 

Dregs

Dregs

Dregs, a sketch duo starring Max Dickins and Mark Smith, are hotly tipped performers. 

Terry Alderton

Terry Alderton

Often with self-styled ‘leftfield’ comics oddity is limited to execution rather than completely disconnected content. 

The Jewbadour

The Jewbadour

There’s an old Jackie Mason joke where, when talking about the reception of his material, he claims that ‘gentiles love it’ but when Jews hear it, their response doesn’t st… 

Paul Foot: Still Life

Paul Foot: Still Life

At one point in this freewheeling show, Paul Foot pulls out a heap of colourfully illustrated flashcards and asks us to yield to the ‘glimpses’ of jokes they contain. 

Slapdash Galaxy

Slapdash Galaxy

Last year, Jeff Achtem’s ‘Swamp Juice’ took the art of shadow puppetry to mesmeric heights. 

Eric's Tales of the Sea - A Submariner's Yarn

Eric's Tales of the Sea - A Submariner's Yarn

The last twenty minutes of Eric’s Tales of the Sea are heart-wrenchingly powerful. 

Roisin Conaty: Destiny's Dickhead

Roisin Conaty: Destiny's Dickhead

Many stand-ups use the idea of a nervy, neurotic persona as part of their acts. 

Foil Arms and Hog - Late Night Sketch Comedy

Foil Arms and Hog - Late Night Sketch Comedy

Irish trio Foil, Arms and Hog, or Sean Finegan, Conor McKenna and Sean Flanagan to their parents, barely leave the stage for the duration of this dizzying hour of sketch comedy. 

Love All

Love All

A two man show by charismatic performers Aideen Wylde and Tadhg Hickey promises fast paced farce within the context of an 1870’s period setting, interestingly established at the … 

Casual Violence: A Kick In The Teeth

Casual Violence: A Kick In The Teeth

I didn’t find myself laughing uproariously at Casual Violence. 

Simon Munnery: Hats Off for the 101ers, and Other Material

Simon Munnery: Hats Off for the 101ers, and Other Material

My assumption is that it was The Stand’s decision to blast Method Man out of the speakers as the audience took their seats rather than Simon Munnery’s, but it is a credit to a … 

Michael Winslow - Noizeyman

Michael Winslow - Noizeyman

Say what you like about the show, the title doesn’t attempt to mislead you. 

Brendon Burns, Home Stretch Baby

Brendon Burns, Home Stretch Baby

Brendon Burns is forty-one. 

The Fantasist

The Fantasist

A woman flails around in her hospital bedroom as if operated on strings by a huge blue man in an overcoat, himself a disquieting looking papier-mâché puppet. 

John Robins: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

John Robins: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

Despite being named after an album by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a band famed for its extravagant tendencies, John Robins’ show of the same name is comforting and familiar. 

Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown

Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown

For years, Pappy’s have established their reputation as one of the most beloved sketch troupes on the Fringe. 

Tony Law Maximum Nonsense

Tony Law Maximum Nonsense

Blimey, Tony Law is funny. 

Andrew Maxwell: That's the Spirit

Andrew Maxwell: That's the Spirit

Andrew Maxwell likes to laugh. 

Jason Byrne: Cirque Du Byrne

Jason Byrne: Cirque Du Byrne

I doubt that the grand surroundings of the Edinburgh International Conference Centre had previously played host to any event opening with a spotlight falling on a man in a Ringmast… 

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