Vir Das: Unbelievable
21/08/2016 … Vir Das has to start his show by pointing out that his Indian accent is real – that it’s not a character or an impersonation of his parents.
2016 Archives
Sun 21 August 2016
Harriet Kemsley: The Girl On The Wrong Train
21/08/2016 … Increasingly assured in her manic nerviness and childlike excitability, Harriet Kemsley has cemented her persona, channelling her gushing delivery and sporadic indiscreet…
Ari Shaffir: Ari S-P-E-C-T
21/08/2016 … About 45 minutes in to his show Ari Shaffir announces that since the comedian on in the Hive after him is having a day off, he’s just going to go ahead and do…
Tim Renkow: King Of The Tramps
21/08/2016 … Tim Renkow and the grubby nightclub setting of The Hive seem like a very apt pairing.
Larry Dean takes Amused Moose crown
Comic deemed 'on the cusp of stardom'
21/08/2016 … Glaswegian comic Larry Dean has won this year's Amused Moose Comedy Award.
© Keli Squires Taylor Can the over-70s cut it in comedy?
21/08/2016 … Is Edinburgh a young man’s game? Surely you jest! It takes an ‘alta caca’* to understand the human heart.
'I dragged my heckler across the floor'
Lou Sanders' most memorable gigs
21/08/2016 … First gigMy first gig was in the early hours of the morning, atop of the No.