Dead Cat Bounce
01/01/2008 … As the audience files in, a woman lies stone-still on a hotel room floor while a radio blares out snippets of news over a menacing guitar track.
Tue 01 January 2008
Men With Bananas: We Know What You're Thinking
01/01/2008 … To criticise this pair is akin to kicking a three-legged puppy.
Thousand Years of German Humour
01/01/2008 … This disappointing return to the Fringe for the Teutonic duo of stand-up Henning Wehn and variety act Otto Kuhnle, sticks to an unwieldy format that inhibits their…
Phil Kay [2008]
01/01/2008 … Phil Kay is manic and slightly jumpy, kissing the front row and blagging beer from late arrivals within minutes of taking to the stage.
Keith Farnan: Cruel and Unusual
01/01/2008 … What a wasted opportunity! The American death penalty is a vital topic, and Cork comic Farnan is uniquely placed to talk about it, having worked as an intern with…
Newsrevue [2008]
01/01/2008 … Launched in 1979, NewsRevue is London's longest-running current affairs sketch show and something of a Fringe institution.
Learn to Play the Ukulele in Under an Hour (How George Formby Saved My Life)
01/01/2008 … This is just lovely; a straight-down-the-line, gentle, sweet, completely enchanting show, tinged with melancholy.
Zoe Gardner's Fault
01/01/2008 … A last-minute splurge of inventiveness drags this show from the brink of ignominy, after a disappointing collection of competent but uninteresting comic characters…