The Umbilical Brothers: The Distraction
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
28/08/2023 … Back in the old days, the Umbilical Brothers recall, sketch performers had to ask audiences to use their imagination to conjure up the scenes they were depicting.
2023 Archives
Mon 28 August 2023
Rick and Morty returns to E4
28/08/2023 … Channel 4 has confirmed that the seventh series of Rick and Morty will be coming to E4 this October.
Sun 27 August 2023
Phil Ellis wins the Malcolm Hardee award for comic originality
And Julia Masli is the ‘act most likely to make a million quid'
27/08/2023 … Phil Ellis has won the Malcolm Hardee award for comic originality at the Edinburgh Fringe, and Julia Masli named ‘act most likely to make a million quid’ Ellis…
Dave Hill: Caveman in a Spaceship
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
27/08/2023 … With mild pyrotechnics, elemental effects and physical threat to one of the seating banks, Dave Hill makes quite the return to the Fringe after 13 years away.
Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty to Me
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
27/08/2023 … Eleanor Conway maintains that she doesn't know a lot about politics, but the personal is resolutely political in her latest sexually frank, feminist show.
George Zacharopoulos: Wonderland
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
27/08/2023 … George Zacharopoulos isn't cast in the heroic mould of his Greek homeland's ancient classicism, at least not in the conventional sense.
William Thompson: The Hand You're Dealt
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
27/08/2023 … Middle-class comics can do a full hour about being a bit sad (to grossly oversimplfiy), while working-class comics like William Thompson can have a drug-dealer dad…
Jay Lafferty: Bahookie
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
27/08/2023 … Like Hitchcock's famous bomb under the table, Jay Lafferty's pole dancing pole stands to the side of her, untouched for the greater part of her show, less…