Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFrom jokes about men’s waning dominance to a teary anecdote, this show runs through a range of emotions on a post-breakup journeyWanna feel weird? Try star-rating someone’s tears. Not for the first time, Jayde Adams invoke…
Continue ReadingFrom bowel cancer to Parkinson’s and dementia, the Edinburgh fringe is full of jokes about serious illness. What’s in it for the comedians – and their audiences?Standup comedy must have been the furthest thing from Sarah Mills’ mind as she awaited some…
Continue ReadingGilded Balloon, EdinburghIn his debut fringe show OK Zoomer, the 22-year-old comic bounces between optimism and fatalism, delivering gags with a sly twinkleGen Z’ers have every reason to feel old before their time. But should 22-year-old Finlay Christi…
Continue ReadingGilded Balloon, EdinburghIn his debut fringe show OK Zoomer, the 22-year-old comic bounces between optimism and fatalism, delivering gags with a sly twinkleGen Z’ers have every reason to feel old before their time. But should 22-year-old Finlay Christi…
Continue ReadingGilded Balloon, EdinburghIn his debut fringe show OK Zoomer, the 22-year-old comic bounces between optimism and fatalism, delivering gags with a sly twinkleGen Z’ers have every reason to feel old before their time. But should 22-year-old Finlay Christi…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Mischief Theatre regular delivers routines to fit the audience’s requests before heading down a darker path in an uneven show“You can’t please everyone,” Charlie Russell’s been told, to which she wants to reply: wanna …
Continue ReadingThe festival is in full swing with audiences crammed into comedy clubs. But is our global pandemic the elephant in the room?Comedian Sam Nicoresti starts his show with an elaborate sanitising ritual. Alex MacKeith kicks off with a number about lockdown…
Continue ReadingWith the fabled comedy showcase running until the end of August, we whittled down gags galore from this year’s standups to pick a dozen of our favouritesMichael Spicer: Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it saw someone from work on a Saturday….
Continue ReadingRoundabout @ Summerhall, EdinburghSamuel Barnett is remarkable in Marcelo Dos Santos’s one-man play which analyses joke-craft and a comedian’s compulsionsTowards the end of this enthralling monologue by Marcelo Dos Santos, the unnamed character played …
Continue ReadingThe festival stands at a crossroads, with costs for performers soaring and many younger acts staying away. But it still offers comics a boot camp like no otherAt the last Edinburgh fringe BC (before Covid), more than 3m tickets were sold for 3,841 show…
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