⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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…
Continue ReadingDan Wilbur is a comedian and author of two humor books, “How Not To Read” and “Never Flirt with Puppy Killers.” He released his first stand-up comedy album, Husband Material, in 2023, has been featured on CollegeHumor, McSweeney’s and Someecards, where…
Continue Reading⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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…
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