Magical Faraway Tree
30/08/2010 … Having heard the laughter, rapturous applause and whistles through the walls of this piece of comic theatre while I was in another show, I was intrigued to find…
2010 Archives
Mon 30 August 2010
Josie Long: Be Honourable!
30/08/2010 … After a year away from Edinburgh, festival favourite Josie Long has subtly reinvented herself.
GIT: Edinburgh 2010
30/08/2010 … Jon Richardson, Dan Atkinson and Lloyd Langford take great pains to explain this show is an idea in progress, bandying around words like ‘experimental’, ‘shambolic’…
Sun 29 August 2010
Frank Chickens hailed as Comedy Gods
29/08/2010 … Japanese avant-garde collective Frank Chickens have officially topped the poll for the best ‘comedy god’, following a subversive internet campaign.
© BBC Comedies scoop TV awards
29/08/2010 … Comedy shows have swept the board for awards handed out at the Edinburgh TV festival.
The Rap Guide To Human Nature
29/08/2010 … If school had ever been as entertaining and dare I say as informative as this lecture by rapper and self-styled intellectual gangsta Baba Brinkman, we’d probably…
Adam Hills: Mess Around
29/08/2010 … At times acts can get bogged down in a heavily themed narrative arc, sacrificing mirth for the message they are trying to get across.