Howard Read: The Little Howard Appeal
01/01/2005 … With animated six-year-old ‘standing-up’ comic Little Howard, Howard Read has invented something that is firmly establishing itself as a welcome…
2005 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sat 01 January 2005
Richard Herring: Someone Likes Yoghurt
01/01/2005 … After so many visits to the city, Richard Herring’s becoming as much a part of the Edinburgh landscape in August as the Scott Memorial.
Seymour Mace: Imaginary Friends Reuinted
01/01/2005 … Now the mines have all closed, whimsical surrealism is now the North East’s seventh most important export.
Confessions of a Jingle Writer
01/01/2005 … With professional jingle-writer Tom Hodge at the organ-piano and leaping around selling his life experiences with computer drawings and sound and video recordings,…
Pete Monaghan: Wishin' 'N' Hopin'
01/01/2005 … Pete Monaghan is that rare thing - a slightly nervous Australian - whose definition of a good life is "It's free.
Ashton Brothers
01/01/2005 … This lively quartet make no secret of their traditional clowning background from their very first gag, a spectacular, fast-paced pratfall straight from the old…
Mark Watson: 50 Years Before Death And The Awful P
01/01/2005 … The clever premise of Mark Watson’s Edinburgh debut is that he’s going to live out the rest of his life over the course of 50 minutes; ‘aging’…
Brian Longwell: Why Work?
01/01/2005 … Before I saw it, I wondered why this show ran 80 minutes, not 60.