Edinburgh Fringe 2016 comedy reviews
The best, and the rest, of the festival
28/08/2016 … Doug Anthony All Stars (DAAS) Live On Stage James Acaster: Reset * Louis CK Scott Agnew: I’ve Snapped My Banjo String, Let’s Just Talk .
Sun 28 August 2016
Sat 27 August 2016
Richard Gadd scoops Edinburgh Comedy Award
A double for Scotland as Scott Gibson takes newcomer
27/08/2016 … Richard Gadd has won this year’s Edinburgh Comedy Award for a show about being the victim of sexual assault.
BBC's new satirical comedy - but with no comedians
A Gogglebox take on topical humour
27/08/2016 … BBC Two is to launch a new topical satire show – but created by ‘real people’, not comedians.
Hate N Live
27/08/2016 … Not so much Set List as shitlist, the premise of this raucous late-night format is simple: the audience suggest topics, and the panel of comedians must use their…
Eric Lampaert: Alien Of Extraordinary Ability
27/08/2016 … ‘Alien’ has three meanings: extra-terrestrial, foreigner and weird.
Ron White: Live In Scotchland
27/08/2016 … Ron White is a screw-up: an insensitive selfish prick, a drunkard and a misogynist… and that’s on the evidence of his own words.
David Stanier's Silly Party
27/08/2016 … Imagine if you threw a party and no one came.