Behind Sara Pascoe’s wide-eyed and innocent delivery is a knowing and politically savvy comedian. She talks to Rebecca Nicholson about break-ups, panel shows and why there’s nothing you can’t make a joke aboutSara Pascoe’s ludicrously sweet black-and-w…
Continue Reading‘Convention-busting’ Jordan Brookes steals the show at the most gender-balanced line-up in the event’s historyComedian Jordan Brookes yesterday scooped the top comedy award at Edinburgh fringe. His experimental, convention-busting show I’ve Got Nothing…
Continue ReadingJordan Brookes wins prize for best show while Catherine Cohen crowned best newcomerA former NHS call centre worker has won the “best show” prize at the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Awards.Jordan Brookes’ experimental, convention-busting show I’ve Got N…
Continue ReadingBrookes has won the biggest prize in live comedy, with Catherine Cohen named best newcomer and Jessica Brough recognised for her Fringe of Colour projectThe Edinburgh Comedy award has found itself another deserving winner in Jordan Brookes, who has bag…
Continue ReadingGilded Balloon Teviot, EdinburghThe Australian standup’s show is stuffed with arbitrary observations – and some of the funniest moments on the fringeAbsurdism-gone-haywire won the 2015 Edinburgh comedy award for her fellow Australian Sam Simmons, and n…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe comic lets rip – if only a bit – for a fine hour of standup about new parenthood and his fogeyish tendenciesThe only thing holding Ivo Graham back in previous shows was his own, well, restraint. The old Etonian (he nev…
Continue ReadingPesky meerkats, War Dogs, Basil Brush … The puppets are taking over, says the standup – and they’re sabotaging his Edinburgh showMy reaction time is too slow to be a proper standup. It takes me about two weeks to come up with a decent riposte to a heck…
Continue ReadingThe standup, writer and presenter on the things that make her laugh the mostRichard Pryor. I remember watching his DVDs and laughing at his jokes as a kid, purely based on his physicality and facial expressions. A comedy GOD. Continue reading…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe comic relives playground traumas in an attempt to make sense of his stunted emotions in this award-nominated show It’s a common complaint among comedians that Edinburgh shows require not just jokes but emotional disclo…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghStrangers’ junk items give a semblance of structure to the latest by this gloriously skittish man-child who revels in the inaneSpencer Jones’s new show is set in his house. He stumbles in late, flicks on the light – and fi…
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