Gareth Waugh: Honestly?
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Jay Richardson
11/08/2017 … At the close of his show, Gareth Waugh justifies its gimmickry with a suggestion that Donald Trump's dubious relationship to facts has made the truth important…
2017 Archives
Fri 11 August 2017
Dave Johns: I. Fillum Star
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
11/08/2017 … If you want three ways NOT to open a comedy show, how about a) showing sobering footage of how the benefit system dehumanises the sick and the needy; b) bragging…
Fringe Clinic #2: Sex
Comedian and doctor Matt Hutchinson puts a dampener on the fun
11/08/2017 … In our continuing series of how to survive the Fringe, medic and comedian Matt Hutchinson tackles the burning issues in festival romance… If…
Rob Carter as Christopher Bliss
11/08/2017 … Here’s comedian Rob Carter reading a ghost story in the guise of terrible novelist Christopher Bliss.
Netflix renews GLOW
Second series of wrestling comedy-drama ordered
11/08/2017 … Netflix has renewed GLOW, its comedy-drama about 1980s female wrestling for a second season.
Tim Minchin: 'I still call Australia home' parody
In support of marriage equality
11/08/2017 … Tim Minchin has released a new song in praise of Australia… kinda.
Thu 10 August 2017
Nick Revell vs Lily, Evil Cat Queen of Earth Planet And The Laughing Fridge
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Paul Fleckney
10/08/2017 … Here’s a curious thing – political comedian of weight, substance and integrity Nick Revell has a new show that’s part-fantasy, part-animal whimsy.
The comic they COULD hang
Annie McGrath's poster is a work of art...
10/08/2017 … Could Annie McGrath have the classiest poster on the Fringe?They comic did an art foundation course, so decided to put that to good use by painting the poster…