⭐⭐⭐½ Celya AB’s therapy sessions prompted her to ask if she should quit comedy. Which must sound radically surprising to anyone already following this French Algerian comedian, a Fringe fave and writer for SNL UK. And yet, sh…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐½ Finlay Christie was only 20 when he won the So You Think You’re Funny title in 2019, and he’s already parlayed that into more success on both social media and the telly. It makes for a rowdy show in real life, wit…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐½ Yvette Segan is a 20-something with a growing audience as an American stand-up comedian and podcaster, with close to half a million Instagram followers. For her Fringe debut, she wanted the UK audiences to know that she’…
Continue ReadingHow do you not only survive, but learn how to thrive in the shadow of celebrity? Michelle Cohn poses that question by putting herself in the frame of mind of Helena Hadid, the seemingly normal but completely fictitious sister to supermodels and daughte…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐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 …
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