I'm invisible in Edinburgh
Cally Beaton says she's being overlooked because she's a 50-year-old woman
15/08/2019 … I did my first gig at the behest of Joan Rivers; I was 45, she was 81.
Thu 15 August 2019
Sukh Ojla: For Sukh's Sake
Edinburgh Fringe review by Alex Bruce
15/08/2019 … This is a dramatic monologue on being a depressed, suicidal, control freak, that elicits only sparse titters throughout.
Anna Drezen: Okay Get Home Safe!!
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
15/08/2019 … Given the popularity of true-crime podcasts and grisly Netflix documentaries, Anna Drezen clearly hits the zeitgeist by theming her show around Ted Bundy.
Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
Comics share their answers to another of Richard Herring's Emergency Questions
15/08/2019 … A huge part of my bowel and small intestine.
Tom Lenk Is Trash
Edinburgh Fringe review by Alex Bruce
15/08/2019 … This undercooked hour could be more accurately titled ’20 random, ill-conceived, self-celebratory, desperate ways to attempt to keep 40 people’s attention’.
Obsolete
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
15/08/2019 … Black Mirror as a student sketch show? Sure, why not… The linking device for Obsolete is a presentation by a sinister tech company that promises immortality…
Yuriko Kotani: Somosomo
Edinburgh Fringe review by Alex Bruce
15/08/2019 … Yuriko Kotani presents a story largely about deciding to do stand-up despite the unsolicited insults, discouragement and criticism she has faced along the way.
My most coked-up heckler, caught on film
Mark Simmons recalls his most memorable gigs
15/08/2019 … Most drunk/coked up heckler Most of the time, when someone heckles, you deal with it, make them look silly, they learn their lesson.