Shappi Khorsandi: Me And My Brother, In Our Pants, Holding Hands
12/08/2011 … It has been a week for shock and numb feelings – emotions repeated for an altogether different reason by the end of this show.
2011 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Fri 12 August 2011
Tom Stade: What Year Was That?
12/08/2011 … This is not comedy for the fragile or easily offended.
Thu 11 August 2011
Asher Treleaven: Matador
11/08/2011 … After a couple of years performing as a vodka-swilling, pill-popping, gas-inhaling lunatic on the verge a sociopathic spree, Asher Treleaven has clamed himself down,…
Totally Tom
11/08/2011 … Standing out is the most difficult thing for any show on this overcrowded fringe; and gimmick-free sketch shows probably have it the hardest.
Alan Sharp: Hate It With Me
11/08/2011 … The Free Fringe is a wonderful thing, but sometimes you’d wish they’d make at least a slight nod to professionalism.
Steve Hall: Very Still Life
11/08/2011 … Comedy works by exaggerating the trivial – just how many Edinburgh shows are based on an incident in a stand-up’s life, blown up to provide supposedly great…
Humphrey Ker is Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher!
11/08/2011 … As familiar Edinburgh sketch group The Penny Dreadfuls splits, Spice Girls-like, into a new batch of solo careers, Humphrey Ker makes his debut with a gung-ho, Boys-Own…
Nick Helm: Dare To Dream
11/08/2011 … Nick Helm is comedy’s answer to glam rock, all swaggering machismo, aggressive posturing and energetic showmanship.