Kyle Kinane: Ghost Pizza Party
31/08/2015 … At a strip club, being thrown out of a country for a drink-driving conviction, being stoned off his tits at work and abusing an animal… these are the settings…
2015 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Mon 31 August 2015
Eleanor Tiernan: Don't Cry For Me Eleanor Tiernan
31/08/2015 … There’s a story in Don’t Cry For Me Eleanor Tiernan when she recounts appearing on a daytime TV show in Ireland, during which the subject of the horse-meat…
© Idil Sukan/Draw HQ Phil Nichol: I Don't Want To Talk About It
31/08/2015 … ‘Crazy Uncle Phil’ fires straight out the blocks with the supercharged, head-spinning frenetic energy we’ve come to expect, covering more ground in the first…
Cassandra: Mary Canary
31/08/2015 … Decent magic tricks are packed up in an unedifying stream of cheap, lazy sex gags in this largely wit-free character-cabaret hybrid.
© Mark Dawson Photography Marny Godden: Flap 'Em On The Gate
31/08/2015 … Marny Godden is an intriguing prospect, reminiscent at her best of the insane, surreal intensity of Matt Lucas’s George Dawes, but ultimately pole-axed by her…
John-Luke Roberts: Stdad-Up
31/08/2015 … Making jokes about ‘dead dad’ Edinburgh shows is probably more of a cliche than the emotive shows themselves these days.
Jack Heal: Frankenstein's Love Monster
31/08/2015 … Jack Heal is the forgotten winner of the Chortle Student Comedy Award, triumphing over someone called Simon Bird back in 2008.
Joz Norris: Hey Guys!
31/08/2015 … It might be the garish Hawaiian shirt or the bold red-rimmed glasses – but there’s something a bit Timmy Mallett about Joz Norris.