Fringe venue cancels Jerry Sadowitz gig
'This type of material has no place on the festival '
13/08/2022 … Edinburgh’s Pleasance venue has insisted it champions freedom of speech after pulling a Jerry Sadowitz gig.
2022 Archives
Sat 13 August 2022
Max Fosh: Zocial Butterfly
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
13/08/2022 … Max Fosh has the grace and self-awareness to acknowledge his super-posh, Harrow-educated background.
A fart so toxic the venue had to be evacuated
Rachel Fairburn on the best and worst of the Edinburgh Fringe
13/08/2022 … Rachel Fairburn recalls her most embarrassing Edinburgh experience; what she can't get enough of at the festival; and the worst thing about…
The youths stole my swimming noodle!
Rob Auton on the best and worst of the Edinburgh Fringe
13/08/2022 … Rob Auton recalls his most embarrassing Edinburgh experience; what he can't get enough of at the festival; and the worst thing about the Fringe.
Glenn Moore: Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, Glenn I’m Sixty Moore
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
13/08/2022 … Glenn Moore seems to bend the laws of physics to cram so many jokes into just one hour.
Sami Abu Wardeh: Bedu
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
13/08/2022 … It’s a confident clown who hands out his own tomatoes at the beginning of the show, and they’re even nice and ripe, which is surely going to hurt more…
I'm With Stupid
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
13/08/2022 … Scottish stand-up Robin Grainger attracted headlines earlier this Fringe for performing to an audience of one – as if that is in any way unusual in Edinburgh.
Simon Brodkin: Screwed Up
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
13/08/2022 … Despite several high-profile stunts, such as giving Theresa May a P45 and handing swastika-emblazoned golf balls to Donald Trump, Simon Brodkin isn’t the household…