Stand-up comedy, parody, and the like.
Comedy
Boris and Sergey are causing a ruckus every night at Pleasance Courtyard with their loveable appearance and…
Once in a while, you see a comedian who is so perfectly suited to performance, channelling such pure talent,…
It’s difficult to review a show when you can barely see from tears of laughter.
BBC favourites Idiots of Ants…
Having lived my life being a bit of a sceptic in terms of magic, I felt that it was time to change the tide.…
There may be a coffee shop on every corner, but none are like The Alchemystorium Café. You see, there…
Nina Conti has probably done more to revitalise ventriloquism as a great performance art than anyone else in…
At the Fringe 2015, I was tickled pink by Buckle Up, a brilliantly devised, farcical play about the crazy…
Joe Lycett was nominated for the Fosters Best Newcomer Award at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe.
In the world of magic, women are generally no more than ‘the lovely assistant’. Not so with French cult…
I’ll confess, I’m already predisposed to liking Mark Thomas having seen some of his TV spots in the past and…
The National Theatre of Scotland has the ironically inclusive slogan of ‘theatre without walls’ having in…
I find it interesting when an American Comedy Star makes their way over to the Festival to peddle their wares.
Having been a school pupil not entirely dissimilar to the mint green four walls of the detention room, it was…
Jess Robinson lies a lot. Her psychologist likes to call it "problem lying".
I am an extremely big fan of female comics. Having never heard of Catie Wilkins, but being drawn in from the…
How would you react if someone you knew and trusted turned out to have been spying on you for a major arms…
Dan Willis offers his comedic musings on the 1986 feel-good movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, in which the…
They come along rarely, like diamonds in coal dust, glittering in all that darkness that is the Edinburgh…
"Come party Hoffstyle" was the invitation, and that was the atmosphere created by this charismatic actor,…
This is a fairytale of globalisation, corporate greed and of coming to terms with reality in a world gone mad.