When Lara Ricote won the Dave Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer yesterday I assumed I'd already run a review of her show GRL/LATNX/DEF. My mistake, I think that's because I've been writing... more
Reviews
Am I the Larry Dean jinx? Last time I saw his show when he'd been nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2018 somebody in the audience had an epileptic fit and the show had to be suspended. This... more
Amy Gledhill has had a pretty good Edinburgh Fringe. Her sketch group The Delightful Sausage has just been nominated for the Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show prize for the second time and... more
It’s always a thrill to come across a completely odd show which has generated a genuine sense of excitement and become a real word of mouth hit. Mr Chonkers is appearing in the “coveted midnight... more
If you have your finger firmly on the comedy pulse you should know Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson from their excellent BBC Three one-off which dramatised the story of how they became friends as... more
Rosie Holt comes to Edinburgh off the back of her viral video clips of dumb doubling down politicians that have been so convincing in their utter craven imbecility that they have bee taken for the... more
Garry Starr is nothing if not ambitious. He enters as Zeus, lightning stapled to his chest and proceeds to throw thunderbolts across the crowd with some helpful audience participation. One... more
For a Festival taking place in Scotland Scottish acts seem to get short shrift at the Edinburgh Fringe. Award nominees tend to be from abroad, London-based critics tend to home in on acts they know... more
The 2022 Fringe will go down as a notable Fringe for all sorts of reasons. One of them may well be that it marked the arrival of a brand new wave of confident, assured comedians, comfortable in their... more
One thing a lot of comedians try to do with their Edinburgh shows is make an impact very quickly by starting big. Alasdair Beckett-King goes for the minimalist approach. He starts his show with the... more
