Comedy

Stand-up comedy, parody, and the like.

Welcome to a look at the Great American Songbook through the bottom of a glass which will bring completely…
I was walking down Frederick Street the other day on my way home to write up some Fringe reviews for…
A fine balance of flair and farce makes Pants Down Circus: Rock, an hour of frolicking fun for all the family.
Jess Robinson lies a lot. Her psychologist likes to call it "problem lying".
In the 1980s, the TV sitcom Hi-de-Hi, set in a 1960s holiday camp run by yellow coats with all its behind…
Jenny Brown chaired the session with Michael Palin which was billed as "The RBS Event" and there were a very…
If, like me, you are an admirer of the art form that is the ‘One Man show’, you will find few sharper than…
“It used to be, sitting there in the dark, you knew that when the show began you would be taken to another…
You are either with him or against him, but be warned that if you are with him he’ll undoubtedly put you in…
It has always been a mystery to me, who decides what shows play in which venues at the Edinburgh Fringe.…
As Carol Vorderman might put it, Daniel Kitson takes his audiences on journeys. Not in the Thomas Cook sense…
We enter the long, dark, distinctly damp sub-terranian curved space to the sound of sonar pings and a slowly…
The clowning genius of Clout is back! Once again the Demonstration Room at Summerhall is graced with the…
The award winning BBC Radio 4 series may have gone to bed in the 80s but it has risen thirty years on as…
At the Festival Fringe, 2012, American actress, Sandra Thomas portrayed Judy in an intimate portrait of the…
When I reviewed A Betrayal of Penguins' show last year I said that they showed a great deal of potential…
It seems a mad prospect to bring an adaptation of the classic Powell and Pressburger film to the stage.…
They come along rarely, like diamonds in coal dust, glittering in all that darkness that is the Edinburgh…
I first met Robin Cairns a few years ago at a Foakies night at the Royal Oak when he fair exploded on to the…
Machismo. Men all over the world strut around with it, so why can't women have it too? This is Lyons' main…