Josie Long: The Future Is Another Planet
23/08/2011 … ‘Silly, friendly, ramshackle, impassioned’ goes the printed programme blurb for Josie Long’s show – written months before the festival starts.
2011 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Tue 23 August 2011
Auntie Netta and The Trouble With Asian Men
23/08/2011 … This double-bill from the producers of the film comedy East Is East mixes very different types of comedy – even within the same act.
Mon 22 August 2011
Ed Reardon: A Writer's Burden
22/08/2011 … It can't have been easy to strike the right balance when writing this show.
Pope Benedict: Bond Villain
22/08/2011 … There is mouth-watering potential in the title and the blurb for this show, which should help to attract reasonable audiences to this 50-seat venue.
Martin Mor: The Call of the Golden Frog
22/08/2011 … Banter doesn’t get much better than this.
Beta Males: The Train Job
22/08/2011 … Ideas are packed into the Beta Males’ Train Job as tightly as commuters in rush hour.
Rayguns Look Real Enough: Balls Deep
22/08/2011 … More pub rockers than comedians, Rayguns Look Real Enough serve up a barnstorming selection of top-grade musical mash-ups, interspersed with unspectacular jokes…
Todd Barry: American Hot
22/08/2011 … Todd Barry was last at the Fringe seven years ago, and as he sardonically notes he ‘had such a good time’ that it’s taken him all this time to slink back,…