Joe Rooney: Shut Your Cakehole
Edinburgh Fringe review by Jack Boyles
12/08/2019 … He might be facing a sparse audience, but Joe Rooney still gives his title song everything he’s got – after all the show must go on.
2019 Archives
Mon 12 August 2019
Sumit Anand: Nothing About Godzilla
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
12/08/2019 … Facing an audience of three has to be dispiriting for any comedian, but it’s even worse for the audience.
Eli Matthewson: An Inconvenient Poof
Edinburgh Fringe review by Julia Chamberlain
12/08/2019 … Eli Matthewson delivers an apparently effortless hour of ungimmicky stand-up with splendid gags – all-too rare on the Fringe, where often a waffly chat and…
Saskia Preston at Fast Fringe
Extract from her Edinburgh show
12/08/2019 … Here's Saskia Preston performing an extract from her latest Edinburgh Fringe stand-up show.
Caitlin Cook: Death Wish
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
12/08/2019 … Caitlin Cook blames both her previous job as a pre-school teacher and the lazily ironic Los Angles drawl for making her sound patronising.
Tiff Stevenson: Mother
Edinburgh Fringe review by Jay Richardson
12/08/2019 … Plenty of comics share their experiences of becoming a parent.
Sarah Silverman: I was fired from a new movie over blackface sketch
Comedian complains about 'righteousness porn'
12/08/2019 … Sarah Silverman has revealed that she was fired from a movie over a old sketch in which she wore blackface.
'Genuinely profound and deeply silly'
Alex Kealy picks his comedy favourites
12/08/2019 … The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy The original two 1978 and 1980 radio series are perfect.