Edinburgh Comedy Festival

This New York newcomer's show Misspelled is a definite single-topic solo show. His comedy revolves around his dyslexia and how it influenced his 1970s Queens upbringing.

Adam Riches is the winner of the prestigious Foster's Best Comedy Show 2011, it was announced at 2.30pm today in the packed Dovecot studios in Edinburgh.

Once in a while, you see a comedian who is so perfectly suited to performance, channelling such pure talent, that you feel they have been doing this since they were born; Adam Riches is just such a

After having seen the glamorous trio that is Fascinating Aïda, I have to wonder how it has taken me so long to find this fabulous act. They have been performing since 1983, though with sl

Josie Long has been bringing quality stand-up to the Fringe for the last three or four years, winning the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer for her 2006 show, 'Kindness and Exuberance'. Her performances are generally marked by these gentler attributes, making her stand out from the usual vitriolic comedians that marks a lot of the newcomers to the Fringe comedy circuit.

Familiar to anyone who has ever seen the Police Academy movies, Michael Winslow's run at this year's Fringe has proven to be a huge success.

So here we are again its 2011 and the comedy shortlist has arrived.

Holmes and Watson have never been more energetic than with Max and Ivan filling their Victorian boots. You can be sure of a thoroughly entertaining hour as the pair take the adventure to Chicago.

We're around about the half-way mark of the Edinburgh Fringe (if you include preview dates), and I thought it would be a good time to take stock of how this year's Festival is going.

It’s difficult to review a show when you can barely see from tears of laughter.

BBC favourites Idiots of Ants have sold out three years running (see EG's reviews for 2008 and 2009), and it looks like they’ll do it again, with the irresistible wit of this year’s Model Citizens.

You are either with him or against him, but be warned that if you are with him he’ll undoubtedly put you in some very awkward positions. Doctor Brown’s Becaves has neither purpose nor sense of boundaries - but no matter how horrifying it gets, you’ll be unable to take your eyes off him.

In the blurb on his Edinburgh Fringe page, John Robins' show is described as "a show about stars, suitable for both dreamers and doubters alike." The positivity contained in that statemen

To use an old sports commentating cliché, Australian Benny Boot's show is one of two halves.

I find it interesting when an American Comedy Star makes their way over to the Festival to peddle their wares.

I had never heard of James Sherwood until this year. Flicking through the Fringe brochure, with a title like I Fed My Best Friend her Favourite Cow, I was instantly intrigued. The Wee Room in the Gilded Balloon Teviot was near full, maybe some of the crowd were just as intrigued as I was or maybe they already new what kind of treat was in store.

Chris Martin seems to be everywhere I go in Edinburgh. The poster for his show (cheeky smile, unshaven face and his name in red letters) is on every corner I turn and on every pillar I walk past. I would imagine, that with a name like Chris Martin – shared with the Coldplay front man – people can do nothing but talk or be intrigued.

David Morgan took the stage at Just the Tonic at the Tron, wearing skinny jeans, a Mickey Mouse t-shirt and thick-rimmed black glasses. Energy and a clear love of what he is doing exuded from Morgan, it just felt a bit sad that he wasn’t as attention grabbing as I hoped he would be.

In a world where we rely on the ever constant changing in technology to live our lives for us, we all still have that one friend.

The only point of reference I had of Scott Capurro before seeing him this year, was his performance in the film Mrs Doubtfire – making up Robin Williams and singing Don’t Rain on my Par

I am an extremely big fan of female comics. Having never heard of Catie Wilkins, but being drawn in from the smile on the poster for her show: A Chip off the Odd Block.