Enjoy a good one-liner? Here are some of the best rib-ticklers from the annual comedy extravaganzaOlaf Falafel: My desire to spontaneously sing The Lion Sleeps Tonight is always just a whim away.Jack Skipper: I failed RE. Couldn’t believe it when I fou…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe straight-talking comic’s debut hour is cheerfully rude and glowing with maternal love, as she describes parenting a son with autismAt a festival with 3,600 shows, some will feel samey. But no other performance is likel…
Continue ReadingOr What’s Left of Us by Sh!t Theatre is a playful and starkly profound hour in which the duo share their bereavements and stir reflections of our ownWhen someone you love dies, the grief can be almost unbearable, but there can also be a sense of someth…
Continue ReadingMonkey Barrel Comedy, Edinburgh Armed with spreadsheets and her usual playfulness, the comic attempts to evaluate the worth of her life so farHas autobiographical comedy reached its apotheosis? You might think so given how Zoë Coombs Marr’s show Every …
Continue ReadingSatirical musicals are trending at this year’s fringe, but there are plenty of intense one-person shows too, a knockout coming-of-age drama, and the unmissable return of Every Brilliant ThingMy biggest mistake of the Edinburgh fringe wasn’t mixing up i…
Continue ReadingYounger audiences can choose from fart jokes, dancing lizards, acrobatic bees and plenty of other monkeying aroundPleasance Courtyard, 11.30am, until 25 August Continue reading…
Continue ReadingFrom the backseat of a moving car to a swimming pool, what constitutes a venue at Scotland’s sprawling arts festival never fails to surpriseOf all the extraordinary things about the Edinburgh fringe, the easiest to take for granted is that performances…
Continue ReadingSummerhall, EdinburghJulia McDermott is captivating as a presenter whose all-American smile cracks in the face of environmental nightmareScorchio! The Fast Show’s persistently sunny forecasts from Caroline Aherne have got nothing on the flaming reports…
Continue ReadingA crowing flash-in-the-pan PM and Jimmy Carr’s life lessons from the Oompa LoompasA tale of two powerful women as the Edinburgh fringe enters its opening week. Nica Burns is a West End producer and the impresario behind the Edinburgh comedy awards. The…
Continue ReadingAssembly George Square, EdinburghShe was chewed up and spat out by the US, but now the TikTok sensation gets to tell her story in this slick productionWith her TikTok series a smash during lockdown, and after a chat with President Biden no less, Dylan …
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