⭐⭐⭐⭐ Harriet Richardson is a performance artist, not a stand-up comedian. And yet she found her life and art colliding with comedy after one performance piece of hers went viral, when she met up for more than 100 blind dates…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐½ “Underneath these clothes I’m sexy I swear!” Sure, in the Pleasance bunkers this Fringe she may be dressing like a parkour boy, or “the Haim sister they keep locked up in the basement,” but you’ve seen Ele McKenzie in th…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ How can a performer pull off a fast-paced high-energy character showcase with a broken arm? Let Jonathan Oldfield show you how, in a fun hour that includes some clever bits of interactivity that allow him to also show y…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐½ For having a decade in the trenches of stand-up comedy, Bella Hull is still only in her 20s, and yet already is enjoying great success. She’s a writer for SNL UK and in the past year has appeared on both Have I Got News …
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I’m gay and insufferable. I’m aware!” But what’s a bipolar nonbinary bisexual dressed as a nun attending a LARP wedding in rural Australia to do when they’ve forgotten their medication? On the bright side, …
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ You may have noticed Amy Matthews as new character DC Rita Oswald on the long-running British TV series EastEnders. In real life, however, Matthews finds herself living in a different sort of soap opera. The sort where …
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ Australian comedian Lou Wall may be dating a short king, but she’s looking for someone to look up to, literally. Her “farm to table feminism” gaslighting men who are 6-foot-1 by telling them she’s 5-11 may be all …
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ozempic. Religion. Cheating. “We love easy answers. We love shortcuts,” Garrett Millerick says in his latest hour, which turns out to be his most audacious Fringe show yet. That’s because he built an AI replica of…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ Geoffrey Asmus is not afraid of being an offensive American comedian. As he jokes: “In America at least we elect our pedophiles.” Besides, he adds, shouldn’t the Brits be embarrassed by maintaining the monarchy? O…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ If you haven’t ever seen him, see him. Dan Rath is an awkward Aussie joke machine. He may offhandedly describe his act as “just a string of non sequiturs held together by mental illness,” but it’s a ve…
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