Stand-up comedy, parody, and the like.
Comedy
Dan Willis offers his comedic musings on the 1986 feel-good movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, in which the…
I love Tam O’Shanter. Perhaps not enough to have his name tattooed across my hurdies, but sufficiently…
Bristol Revunions' new show "National Friends" can be easily summed up in the phrase "missed opportunities."…
Welcome to a look at the Great American Songbook through the bottom of a glass which will bring completely…
We are welcomed personally on board the Starship Osiris by George Vere. It’s very much his vessel as we are…
Boris and Sergey are causing a ruckus every night at Pleasance Courtyard with their loveable appearance and…
“It used to be, sitting there in the dark, you knew that when the show began you would be taken to another…
‘You’ll have had your tea?’ is the legendary response of Edinburgh’s bourgeoisie to the arrival of an…
I was sitting in a late night bar, as one does on the Fringe, supping a few cold ones down with a fellow…
The genre is noir The time, late Fifties-early Sixties. The place? The infamous Tokyo Hotel.
Their stand-ups fill venues three times as big in Australia; not surprising, considering a good chunk of…
Comedy + August = Edinburgh seems an obvious equation, but it’s twelve years since Mitch Benn last performed…
It seems a mad prospect to bring an adaptation of the classic Powell and Pressburger film to the stage.…
Chalked hair, heavily applied lip liner wrinkles and a distinct lack of weary joints, Z Theatre Company’s…
Roger McGough stepped on to the stark stage that was bathed in a warm purple light where he stood at the…
Having delivered funny stuff for 6-plus’s to laugh at for nearly a decade at the Fringe, Comedy Club 4 Kids…
"Come party Hoffstyle" was the invitation, and that was the atmosphere created by this charismatic actor,…
Lady Garden have returned with their fourth Edinburgh show, serving up yet more absurd delights.
I am an extremely big fan of female comics. Having never heard of Catie Wilkins, but being drawn in from the…
It’s difficult to review a show when you can barely see from tears of laughter.
BBC favourites Idiots of Ants…