Totally Tom
11/08/2011 … Standing out is the most difficult thing for any show on this overcrowded fringe; and gimmick-free sketch shows probably have it the hardest.
2011 Archives
Thu 11 August 2011
Alan Sharp: Hate It With Me
11/08/2011 … The Free Fringe is a wonderful thing, but sometimes you’d wish they’d make at least a slight nod to professionalism.
Steve Hall: Very Still Life
11/08/2011 … Comedy works by exaggerating the trivial – just how many Edinburgh shows are based on an incident in a stand-up’s life, blown up to provide supposedly great…
Humphrey Ker is Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher!
11/08/2011 … As familiar Edinburgh sketch group The Penny Dreadfuls splits, Spice Girls-like, into a new batch of solo careers, Humphrey Ker makes his debut with a gung-ho, Boys-Own…
Nick Helm: Dare To Dream
11/08/2011 … Nick Helm is comedy’s answer to glam rock, all swaggering machismo, aggressive posturing and energetic showmanship.
Colin Hoult: Inferno
11/08/2011 … Still as dark as ever, Colin Hoult has this year moved from focussing on more macabre characters to ‘heroes’, mostly human ones but all inevitably flawed and…
David Reed: Shamblehouse
11/08/2011 … David Reed's Shamblehouse is made up of a series of sharply-written character pieces performed with the skill you might expect from a former member of The Penny…
Elis James: Do You Remember The First Time
11/08/2011 … Elis James is normally a master of whipping a crowd into a frenzy and getting huge laughs from even the smallest of audiences, but in a room hot enough to melt metal…