That feeling when you get misgendered by a barista … The LOL Word proves there’s a place for comedy that isn’t straight or male with a heart-rendingly hilarious Edinburgh showJodie Mitchell is slowly moving around the stage, blowing into a microphone…
Continue ReadingUnderbelly Cowgate, EdinburghMore anarchic comedy, sexual frankness and in-yer-face clowning from the director behind Natalie PalamidesIs there a more singular style in comedy than Dr Brown’s? The shows in which he’s had a hand – his own, culminating i…
Continue ReadingPleasance Dome, Edinburgh Kathy Burke directs Amy Booth-Steel’s feelgood, if cliched, ukulele-assisted chronicle of cancer and PTSDFive years ago, Amy Booth-Steel was a jobbing actor, when she was diagnosed with stage three cancer and told she could be…
Continue ReadingHe quit booze and Scotland – and became a chat show sensation in the US. As he returns to standup on his home turf, we rescue him from selfie-takers on the streets of GlasgowOn the morning we meet, Glasgow seems especially delighted to have Craig Fergu…
Continue ReadingStand Comedy Club, EdinburghKitson delivers a last-minute set of quarter-baked routines, but it’s still a pleasure to be entertained by his unique humourIt’s from one extreme to the other with Daniel Kitson these days. You get the complex and technical…
Continue ReadingStand Comedy Club, EdinburghKitson delivers a last-minute set of quarter-baked routines, but it’s still a pleasure to be entertained by his unique humourIt’s from one extreme to the other with Daniel Kitson these days. You get the complex and technical…
Continue ReadingHer last standup show, about working in a New York sex dungeon, was a fringe hit – and is now bound for TV. How will she top it?Desiree Burch is putting the finishing touches to her new Edinburgh fringe show. “This is the part where you’re like, ‘None …
Continue ReadingHer last standup show, about working in a New York sex dungeon, was a fringe hit – and is now bound for TV. How will she top it?Desiree Burch is putting the finishing touches to her new Edinburgh fringe show. “This is the part where you’re like, ‘None …
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe incarnation of a woke social media caricature raises a few smiles but mostly pokes predictable fun at the softest of targetsOnly the terminally woke would deny that their crusade for social justice – the movement to es…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe incarnation of a woke social media caricature raises a few smiles but mostly pokes predictable fun at the softest of targetsOnly the terminally woke would deny that their crusade for social justice – the movement to es…
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