David Eagle wins a Fringe award
...and Jordan Tweddle takes ADHD comedy title
18/08/2024 … David Eagle has won an award for the best show by a visually impaired performer at the Edinburgh Fringe.
2024 Archives
Sun 18 August 2024
© Steve Ullathorne Nina Gilligan: Goldfish
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
18/08/2024 … ‘Marketing people love working-class Northern women,’ says Nina Gilligan, reflecting on all the voiceover work her endearingly soft Mancunian accent…
Jessie Cave: An Ecstatic Display
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
18/08/2024 … Jessie Cave’s occasional shows provide an effective simulation of what you imagine it must be like in her mind.
'Jokes are the sweeteners that make difficult subjects palatable'
Njambi McGrath on confronting colonialism with comedy
18/08/2024 … The runaway success of Richard Gadd’s Baby Reindeer and Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette are testament that no subject is off limit to comedy.
Bella Humphries: Square Peg
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
18/08/2024 … Bella Humphries inhabited a very different world when she started writing Square Peg.
Pear
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
18/08/2024 … Do identical twins have a psychic connection? That’s probably too big a question to be answered in a comedy review, to be fair, but Patrick and Hugo McPherson…
Men can't handle this period drama...
Three blokes faint at Marjolein Robertson's blood-based show
18/08/2024 … Marjolein Robertson says three men have fainted at her Edinburgh Fringe show, over its graphic description of vaginal bleeding.
TV picks: Sky airs Tom Davis stand-up special
18/08/2024 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday August 19 WE MIGHT REGRET THIS: Filmmaker and activist Kyla Harris is behind…