Simon Brodkin: Still Not Himself – Fringe 2009
18/08/2009 … Any punters who bought tickets on the strength of this character comedian’s appearances on Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder may have high hopes of Brodkin,…
2009 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Tue 18 August 2009
Two Left Hands: Another Mouthful– Fringe 2009
18/08/2009 … A wet afternoon in the Pleasance Courtyard made for a damp and largely subdued audience; gently steaming (and not in the right way) and not laughing a great deal,…
King Of Everything – Fringe 2009
18/08/2009 … What a sloppy, unfinished mess: forgotten lines, fluffed cues, corpsing, sketches that peter out just because they get bored performing them, and obscure in-jokes…
Blow Up! The Credit Crunch Musical – Fringe 2009
18/08/2009 … What screams comedy more than ‘German’? How about a German comedy about the machinations of alpha-generating market-neutral hedge funds and collaterised debt…
Carey Marx: The Doom Gloom Boom – Fringe 2009
18/08/2009 … Carey Marx brings to mind an old-fashioned comic-book schoolboy.
Mon 17 August 2009
Jonny Sweet: Mostly About Arthur - Fringe 2009
17/08/2009 … Jonny Sweet has just landed a role playing the young David Cameron in a More 4 drama-documentary – so there may be a cautionary tale here.
Peter Buckley HIll: 40 Words – Edinburgh Fringe
17/08/2009 … The gloriously shambolic Peter Buckley-Hill has always had something of the mad scientist about him; and this year he’s delved wholeheartedly into the subject…
Stephen Carlin Blows The Lid Off The Whole Filthy Business – Edinburgh Fringe
17/08/2009 … Stephen Carlin has always had an intriguingly different voice, partly surreal, party based a nerdy obsession with obscure minutiae at the expense of the bigger picture.