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.
2024 Archives
Sun 18 August 2024
'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…
Ruby Carr: eBae
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
18/08/2024 … If you’re looking for something frivolous this Fringe, you could do a lot worse than Ruby Carr’s charmingly daffy Edinburgh debut, a deep dive into the…
Fern Brady starts her tour
The best of the week's live comedy
18/08/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.