Pleasance Dome, EdinburghBrokentalkers theatre company and feminist comic Adrienne Truscott joyfully burlesque the ugliness of machismo in art and in lifeThe great male artist may soon be on his way out, and not before time. But Brokentalkers theatre c…
Continue ReadingStand New Town theatre, EdinburghMaking her fringe standup debut after blazing a trail through modelling and activism, Olumide has some promising material but it fails to come togetherFashion model, actor, activist – is there anything Eunice Olumide ca…
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn her show The Woman’s Hour, the viral comedy star offers caricatures of burbling backbenchers and a woke-bashing TV hostIn the darkness of our political moment, Rosie Holt’s videos, in her guise as a floundering governme…
Continue ReadingMonkey Barrel, EdinburghWith cartoonish flair, the likable comic – one half of sketch duo The Delightful Sausage – revels in the repeated indignity of being ditched for someone elseThe Girl Before the Girl You Marry, Amy Gledhill calls her new show, wh…
Continue ReadingUnderbelly, EdinburghIrresistibly gleeful celebration of the enduring popularity of Mr Brightside, the Killers’ 2004 debut anthem still in the charts todayVegas rockers the Killers have just released a new single but their 2004 debut, Mr Brightside, is…
Continue ReadingThe comic and podcaster on her pre-show rituals, the worst advice she’s been given and why routines about serious issues still need to make you laughHow did you get into comedy? I was a chronically shy young person who loved any kind of comedy. I used …
Continue ReadingThe former PM’s one-off onstage chat with standup Matt Forde belied his dour image. If only he’d shown more of this side of himself to the electorateWhere is the comedy, Matt Forde, in this? Where is the comedy in bringing on to the stage intellectual …
Continue ReadingPleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Childhood friends and LOL Word affiliates Rachel WD and Ruby Clyde leave no assumption unturned with their deft wit and breezy musical interplayA venerable tradition in comedy once obliged anyone, on encountering an excit…
Continue ReadingAssembly Rooms, EdinburghWith Lap of Shame, the comic delivers a set of breathtakingly rude jokes and thought-provoking ghastlinessA friend of Frankie Boyle’s, he tells us, stopped watching standup because it’s either “clever but not funny, or funny bu…
Continue ReadingMonkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghFrom relationship recovery to getting her phone messages spoken out by the audience, Koch has charisma and punchlines to burnThe infamous opening notes of Shania Twain’s Man! I Feel Like a Woman! blast out across Monkey B…
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