⭐⭐⭐⭐½ Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland have done it again. Their fourth Fringe production has earned them a fourth Fringe First award from The Scotsman. They can write and tell jokes great and dumb alike. They can clown it up. …
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ Elouise Eftos is sexy, smart, and funny. “Turns out guys don’t like that.” Fringe audiences and judges do, however, making her a Best Newcomer nominee last year, and “Australia’s First Attractive Comedian…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ For comedian and actor Chris Grace, racism is worse when it’s hack. Grace used this to his comedic advantage in his 2023 Fringe show, Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson, which he adapted into a Dropout special. Th…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ Paddy Young is an undeniable star now. “I used to dream of playing rooms like this,” he says during one late-night set this month at Pleasance Grand. And yet he still has to deal with rejection, whether it’s the c…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fears are funny (weird) in how they can encompass both sides of an issue or outcome. For example, comedian Sarah Roberts says she has a fear of being alone, and yet she also fears people. In her case, Roberts kind of br…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ You can only imagine what the revelers outside the new Beside room must think if they hear some of the “horrible things” bleeding out through the walls into Pleasance Courtyard this August. Frankie Thompson …
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ Two summers ago, Demi Adejuyigbe came to Edinburgh promising one back-flip and left Fringe as a Best Newcomer nominee. What to do for an encore? Sell out, obviously! Whether satirically, sincerely, or both, Adejuyigbe d…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐½ In her biggest, most ambitious show yet, Olga Koch time travels. Figuratively. Koch uses the large stage at Pleasance Courtyard’s Forth to display dates, court citations, funny asides and mood lighting to tell he…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bron Lewis knows her demographic: teachers and moms. The Australian comedian has experience with both, having formerly taught high school and currently still raising three children (two daughters, 12 and 10; and a five-…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ “If you’re thinking, ‘Huh?!,’ then you are correct.” On the Greek temple at Delphi reads three maxims that come from the oracle: “Know thyself, Nothing in excess, Surety then ruin.” T…
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