Sikisa: Hear Me Out
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
26/08/2023 … Following up her 2022 debut hour about being life and soul of the party, here Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes reveals some of the vulnerability behind that confident, booty-shaking…
Sat 26 August 2023
André de Freitas: What If
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
26/08/2023 … André De Freitas has sacrificed a lot for comedy.
Ahir Shah scoops main Edinburgh Comedy Award
Urooj Ashfaq is best newcomer and A Show For Gareth wins panel prize
26/08/2023 … Ahir Shah has won the best show accolade at the 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
© Karla Gowlett Sasha Ellen: When Life Gives You Ellens Make Ellenade
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
26/08/2023 … Sasha Ellen is surely bang on the money when she identifies the cognitive dissonance at the heart of modern hook-ups.
© Caro Wallis / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Old MacDonald had a theramin...
26/08/2023 … Tweets of the week Today in Edinburgh has been like that Crowded House song "Four Seasons in One Day", by which I mean: shit.
Fri 25 August 2023
The Comedy Arcade
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
25/08/2023 … Hosted by Vix Leyton, The Comedy Arcade is a competition of scandalous stories, with new comics each night vying for the win.
Al Porter: A Work in Progress
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
25/08/2023 … It’s a running joke how much we hear from supposedly cancelled comedians, and now in a converted church hall away from the main Fringe hubs, Irish comic Al…
The Graham Linehan episode has proved that Comedy Unleashed are just as mediocre as the stand-up mainstream
Will Franken yearns for a real alternative to the careerists
25/08/2023 … For seven years running, I have not performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.