Carey Marx: Marry Me
01/01/2005 … Fast approaching 40, unmarried and in need of a theme for this year’s Edinburgh show, Carey Marx hit upon the brilliant idea of trying to find himself a wife…
Sat 01 January 2005
Stand-Up Tragedy and Other Disasters
01/01/2005 … Peter Buckley Hill is a leftover from a half-forgotten generational netherworld of comedy.
The Lost And Lonely Rebels
01/01/2005 … As if you couldn’t tell from the twee introductory music, which evokes such early radio comedies as Much-Binding-In-The-Marsh, the Lost and Lonely Rebels…
The Congress of Oddities
01/01/2005 … This distinctive Victoriana double act really ought to be introduced by a florid, alliterative Good Old Days-style barker pronouncing them the magnificent, multifaceted…
DJ Danny
01/01/2005 … There is clearly something inherently funny in seeing a scrawny, middle class white kid wearing a gold Adidas tracksuit and asking those around him how "mad…
Danny Bhoy
01/01/2005 … The more cynical among us can so easily poke fun at what Danny Bhoy does.
Bruce Devlin: Selkirk Bannock
01/01/2005 … At the start of Bruce Devlin’s show, he makes an aside about only thinking this project was a good idea five months ago.
Robert Newman: Apocalypso Now
01/01/2005 … For a comedy show, you don’t half come out of Robert Newman’s Apolcalypso Now feeling depressed.