All That Mullarkey
01/01/2002 … The Edinburgh festival is all about self-promotion.
Tue 01 January 2002
The Funjabis: Lovin A Sorna Gora (Lovin A Nice Whi
01/01/2002 … The signs don't look good when one of the first jokes in a show is: "I've just spent three weeks in India - a week in Delhi, a week in Bombay and a week on…
Live! Girls!
01/01/2002 … Live! Girls! is one of the burgeoning number of sketch shows that has great characters, strong ideas and polished performances, but which have trouble translating…
Addy Borgh: Hearing Voices
01/01/2002 … Borgh arrived on stage without what had almost become his trademark beard - perhaps the voices suggested he cut it off - looking wide-eyed and bushy-tailed.
Rory Bremner
01/01/2002 … Satire must be in a pretty sorry state if Rory Bremner is its leading exponent.
Gavin and Gavin: Full English Breakfast
01/01/2002 … There's little more to this than a couple of drama school girls showing off what accents they can do in the pretence of character comedy.
Trevor and Simon: Unwigged
01/01/2002 … Trev and Simon trade in puerile schoolboy humour, atrociously low-grade puns and childishly basic insults - and well they know it, revelling in the very stupidity…
Charlie Chuck Is Scrooge
01/01/2002 … With his fragmented manner, Tourette-ish outbursts and compelling physical tics, Charlie Chuck's inspired lunacy is a welcome novelty - but is it enough to sustain…