Catherine Cohen: “Come For Me” at Edinburgh Fringe 2024
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Catherine Cohen took the 2019 Fringe by storm and returned back to the States with a Best Newcomer trophy, and turned that award-winning cabaret …
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Encore! Surefire shows returning for the Edinburgh festival in 2023
In the run-up to the festival, our writers will choose new productions that have caught their eye – but here’s a selection of those we’ve already reviewedRichard Marsh has clearly seen Die Hard more times than he’s had Christmas dinners. He’s here in h…
Continue ReadingCatherine Cohen: Come for Me review – a hilarious social-mediated psyche set loose
Komedia, BrightonOutrageous comedy, self-glamorising songs and self-ironic ridiculousness in abundance from a comic with a sharp sense of her own daftnessYou mellow with age, they say. So whither, now she’s 31, the comedy of Catherine Cohen? When Cohen…
Continue ReadingJordan Brookes, Catherine Cohen win top prizes at 2019 Edinburgh Comedy Awards
Congratulations to Jordan Brookes, winner of Best Show at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and to Catherine Cohen, this year’s Best Newcomer winner! I sat down with Cohen this summer in San Francisco at Comedy Central’s Clusterfest, and …
Continue ReadingHere are your nominees for best show and best newcomer at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Of the thousands of shows taking place in Edinburgh this August, these are the ones nominated as the best in show for 2019. Winners to be announced Saturday. Congrats everyone! Best Comedy Show 2019 Darren Harriott: Good Heart Yute Demi Lardner: Ditch …
Continue ReadingA guide to the Americans performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019
It’s not even August yet, and already Edinburgh is off to the races with this year’s Fringe, including thousands of shows all over the Scottish city for the next four weeks. The Comic’s Comic is here to tell you which of us Yanks are …
Continue ReadingCatherine Cohen on Late Night with Seth Meyers
Whether or not you’ve already listened to my podcast chat with Catherine Cohen, this young cabaret star has just made her late-night TV debut, performing on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Cohen sang “Look at Me,” accompanied by Henry Ko…
Continue ReadingEpisode #268: Catherine Cohen
With degrees in English and Theater, Catherine Cohen not only graduated from Princeton University but also delivered a humorous speech at her own graduation. Five years later, Cohen became one of New York City’s newest It Girls, bringing the cabaret co…
Continue ReadingInaugural Janelle James Comedy Festival lineup will include Eugene Mirman, David Cross and plenty of new faces
The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival may now be The Janelle James Comedy Festival, but Mirman himself will appear and perform as part of the hand-off of the annual comedy celebration in Park Slope and Gowanus, Brooklyn. The inaugural lineup joining James from Dec. 4-6, 2018, also includes David Cross, Cristela Alonzo, Catherine Cohen, Nore Davis, […]
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