Edinburgh Fringe 2015 comedy reviews
01/09/2015 … Funz and Gamez Tooz James Acaster: Represent Joe Lycett: That's The Way, A-Ha A-Ha, Joe Lycett John Robins: Speakeasy Kieran Hodgson: Lance Mae Martin:…
2015 Archives
Tue 01 September 2015
Mon 31 August 2015
Kyle Kinane: Ghost Pizza Party
31/08/2015 … At a strip club, being thrown out of a country for a drink-driving conviction, being stoned off his tits at work and abusing an animal… these are the settings…
Eleanor Tiernan: Don't Cry For Me Eleanor Tiernan
31/08/2015 … There’s a story in Don’t Cry For Me Eleanor Tiernan when she recounts appearing on a daytime TV show in Ireland, during which the subject of the horse-meat…
© Idil Sukan/Draw HQ Phil Nichol: I Don't Want To Talk About It
31/08/2015 … ‘Crazy Uncle Phil’ fires straight out the blocks with the supercharged, head-spinning frenetic energy we’ve come to expect, covering more ground in the first…
Cassandra: Mary Canary
31/08/2015 … Decent magic tricks are packed up in an unedifying stream of cheap, lazy sex gags in this largely wit-free character-cabaret hybrid.
© Mark Dawson Photography Marny Godden: Flap 'Em On The Gate
31/08/2015 … Marny Godden is an intriguing prospect, reminiscent at her best of the insane, surreal intensity of Matt Lucas’s George Dawes, but ultimately pole-axed by her…
John-Luke Roberts: Stdad-Up
31/08/2015 … Making jokes about ‘dead dad’ Edinburgh shows is probably more of a cliche than the emotive shows themselves these days.
Jack Heal: Frankenstein's Love Monster
31/08/2015 … Jack Heal is the forgotten winner of the Chortle Student Comedy Award, triumphing over someone called Simon Bird back in 2008.