Bill O’Neill: “The Amazing Banana Brothers” at Edinburgh Fringe 2023
**** (out of 5) Two brothers. 1,000 banana slips in an hour or your money back guaranteed? One chaotically tricky masochistic clown show! Directed by …
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Elf and Duffy: Heist review – harum-scarum comedy havoc
Monkey Barrel at the Tron, EdinburghThis part-improvised, largely mimed and entirely chaotic comic play about guinea pigs and bank robbery is ramshackle funEdinburgh comedy award-nominated in 2017, Elf Lyons can’t be accused of treading the conventiona…
Continue Reading‘Like a naughty Siri’: friendly sex robot Vanessa 5000 asks audiences to test her powers
In her Edinburgh festival show, LA comic and clown Courtney Pauroso plays a latex-clad humanoid pleasure device. But are fringegoers ready to restart her?The last time I saw Courtney Pauroso, she was upside down, legs splayed, doing a naked, spotlit ha…
Continue Reading‘Like a naughty Siri’: friendly sex robot Vanessa 5000 asks audiences to test her powers
In her Edinburgh festival show, LA comic and clown Courtney Pauroso plays a latex-clad humanoid pleasure device. But are fringegoers ready to restart her?The last time I saw Courtney Pauroso, she was upside down, legs splayed, doing a naked, spotlit ha…
Continue ReadingCourtney Pauroso: “Vanessa 5000,” at Edinburgh Fringe 2023
***** (out of 5) After a sold-out run of her debut show Gutterplum in 2019, Los Angeles clown Courtney Pauroso returns with an all-new production …
Continue ReadingEpisode #434: Christina Catherine Martinez
Christina Catherine Martinez is a writer, actor, art critic, comedian and Los Angeles native who was named in 2020 to Vulture’s Comedian You Should Know …
Continue ReadingThe Invisible Man review – an ingenious show you’ll want to see again
Unicorn theatre, LondonConstantly surprising, this fresh take on the ‘it’s behind you!’ routine leaves its young audience asking ‘how did they do that?’Suppose you put on a play and no one turned up. Or the audience came but you just couldn’t see them….
Continue ReadingEncore! 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 ReadingEpisode #426: Tape Face
When you hear the words Tape Face, what do you picture? Sam Wills began his comedy career in his native New Zealand as a teenage …
Continue ReadingThe best comedy shows of 2022
From dazzling comic debuts at the Edinburgh fringe to occult sketches, soul-searching standup and deeply strange revelations, it was a top year for laughing matters• More on the best culture of 2022A set delivering all the livid topical comedy we expec…
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