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Alex Love: How to Win a Pub Quiz 2025

 
Victor Black Review by Victor Black 5 Published: 22 Aug 2025 The Stand Comedy Club Show Dates: 1 Aug 2025-25 Aug 2025

How To Win A Pub Quiz is Alex Love’s love letter to comedy and quiz formats that has been gathering momentum as a Fringe cult smash for a full decade.

Outstripping some of the festival’s top-rated comedians in terms of both quality and quantity of laughter

In the hands of a lesser comic or quizmaster, this show could easily flop, but Love is a master of both, striking the perfect balance of skills to ensure his show reaches maximum potential, and then some.

He opens with a comedy routine combining personal insights, trivia, and great gags that instantly cultivate the kind of rapport a regular quizmaster might take weeks to establish with regular teams. More than half the Fringe shows I’ve seen this year contain some commentary on Oasis’s role in the festival, but Love handles it in a totally individual and engaging way that outshines the generic, crowbarred references elsewhere. Despite the fact that the quiz is the show’s USP, he does not just settle for that, outstripping some of the festival’s top-rated comedians in terms of both quality and quantity of laughter.

By the time the questions began, the affectionately teased audience was in the palm of Love's hand, aided by his ability to recall when certain audience members last came to his show, even dating back to 2015. It’s clear that he possesses the qualities of a quizmaster perhaps even beyond those of a comedian. The way he incorporates questions based on the initial material is novel and varied, including some truly hilarious twists and revelations.

Returning audience members are both rewarded by generation-spanning in-jokes and callbacks, and challenged (or rewarded, as you see fit) with questions and material that have endured across multiple Fringes. Newcomers are fully welcomed as well. If you like the sound of the show, it is guaranteed to be a festival highlight, as it delivers everything it promises and then some.

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Part stand-up, part actual pub quiz. Bigger and earlier than ever, quick-witted Alex Love is back with more trivia to split the audience into teams to compete for prizes in this highly interactive hour. Love also hasn't axed his fact-checkers. In the war on facts, the resistance starts here. ‘It is hilarious... I had so much fun... How to Win a Pub Quiz combines my love of facts and clever comedy’ (ArtMurmurs.nz). ‘Whether winners or losers, everyone left happy... A skilful host with a twinkle in his eye' **** (BroadwayBaby.com).