'I came out in a wheelchair wearing a kimono'
Kate Berlant recalls her most memorable gigs
21/08/2018 … First gigI did stand-up for the first time when I was 17 at my high school.
Tue 21 August 2018
Dave Green: Melt
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
21/08/2018 … In his stand-up show Melt, Dave Green projects himself as a slightly incompetent, slightly unconfident Everyman, stressing the small stuff.
Go Slay Dragons!
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
21/08/2018 … Performing at 9pm on a Saturday night in the Hogarthian hellscape that is the Three Sisters, one of the rowdiest of all Edinburgh’s pubs, would be a challenge…
‘How can somewhere so busy feel so lonely?’
Cerys Nelmes on the strains of the Edinburgh Fringe
21/08/2018 … ‘How can somewhere so busy feel so lonely?’ This was my first observation after attending my first ever Edinburgh in 2011.
Tony Law: A Lost Show
Edinburgh Fringe review by Jay Richardson
21/08/2018 … This is Tony Law's apology tour, a show acknowledging the years lost to alcohol and cocaine.
Billy Connolly to make a BBC series about Scotland
...as claims his mind is fading are rebuffed
21/08/2018 … Billy Connolly is to make a major new BBC series about his native Scotland.
Willis & Vere: A Serious Play About World War II
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
21/08/2018 … Spoiler alert: The Serious Play About World War II isn’t serious.
© Andy Hollingworth Tom Lucy: Reluctant Millennial
Edinburgh Fringe review by Paul Fleckney
21/08/2018 … It might seem a good thing to become a successful stand-up early on, but Tom Lucy’s second show gives an indication of how it can actually stunt a comic.