Jonny Pelham: Optimism Over Despair
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
14/08/2023 … Stand-ups are always lauding comedy as a way to confront dark issues, with large sections of this festival based on comedians processing their trauma through laughs…
Mon 14 August 2023
New book podcast from Sara Pascoe and Cariad Lloyd
14/08/2023 … Sara Pascoe and Cariad Lloyd are launching a book-club podcast aimed at 'lonely outsiders' In Sara & Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club - which…
Daniel Foxx: Villain
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
14/08/2023 … Daniel Foxx is part of a sea change at this year’s festival, a clutch of comics making their debuts having built their audiences via social media rather than…
Ike Ufomadu: How it started, how it's going
Visiting American comic gives us a status report on his first Fringe
14/08/2023 … We asked some Edinburgh Fringe debutants about their expectations of the festival before it kicked off.
Alternative Edinburgh comedy awards announce their longlist
More than 50 Fringe shows in the running
14/08/2023 … The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards – the accolades set up when it appeared that the original awards might not be happening this year – have announced their…
Phil Ellis’s Excellent Comedy Show
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
14/08/2023 … Phil Ellis’s Excellent Comedy Show has got it all: music, singing, dancing, improvised rap, puns, emotional heft, TikTok videos… Is he any…
Sam Lake: Aspiring DILF
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
14/08/2023 … What a glorious lunchtime hoot this show is, with never a dip nor laboured moment in an hour that rackets along.
Lucas O'Neil: Emotional Man
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
14/08/2023 … This feels like the year that American comedy has fully embraced the British-style solo show, with themes, messages and storytelling as important as the jokes –…