Jake Baker: Rule Breaker!
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
23/08/2024 … How to do a stand-up about being cautious and unexciting, without that also being the mood of the show? That’s a dilemma Jake Baker hasn’t been able…
2024 Archives
Fri 23 August 2024
Ryan Cullen: Cullen in the Name Of!
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
23/08/2024 … The perennial challenge for even the most accomplished one-liner comic is how to vary the rhythm and tone of a whole hour of gags, lest the tried and tested setup-punchline…
Elaine Robertson: Delulu
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
23/08/2024 … An authentically open-hearted comedian so optimistic she even thought her home town of Consett, County Durham, was the bees’ knees, Elaine Robertson sparkles…
Fearghas Kelly: Whooooooooooo!
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
23/08/2024 … For all the times I’ve heard Mat Ewins complain about his show going wrong, I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen it fail in the room.
Josh Pugh makes spoof sports documentary
To tie in with the Paris Paralympics
23/08/2024 … Josh Pugh has made a spoof high-end sports documentary for the BBC.
Raul Kohli: Raul Britannia
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
23/08/2024 … When far-right rioters were trying to torch hotels and loot Greggs earlier this month, little did they know that they were promoting the work of a British Asian…
Alexis Gay: Unprofessional
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
23/08/2024 … The debut show from New York-based comedian Alexis Gay makes some unlikely lemonade from the comedic lemons of getting severe burnout in a soul-destroying tech sales…
Thu 22 August 2024
© Steve Ullathorne Alana Jackson wins So You Think You're Funny?
Glaswegian comedian triumphs over 596 other hopefuls
22/08/2024 … Glaswegian comic Alana Jackson has tonight been named the winner of So You Think You're Funny? 2024.