Mark Silcox: Helping Aamer
18/08/2016 … Anti-comedian Mark Silcox performed one of my least favourite shows of last year’s Fringe, his wilfully unfunny talk on electrochemiluminescence and tediously…
2016 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Thu 18 August 2016
Susan Calman: The Calman Before The Storm
18/08/2016 … Susan Calman insists you’ve got the wrong impression of her.
Erich McElroy's (US) Electile Dysfunction
18/08/2016 … The nuttiest Presidential campaign in US history has been keeping the satirists busy trying to keep up with Donald Trump’s constant stream of brain farts, and…
Wed 17 August 2016
Felicity Ward: 50% More Likely To Die
17/08/2016 … Amid all the big issues being tackled by comedy, this is an hour-long show about that time Felicity Ward left her bag on the bus.
Goose: Hydroberserker
17/08/2016 … The Piccolo tent is just the venue for both the frenetic, charismatic comedy of Goose, and his big broad-brush show, Hydroberserker.
Hell To Play
17/08/2016 … It’s a good idea for a game show: two comedians find themselves in purgatory and have to compete for the chance to save their souls, by answering questions posed…
Phil Ellis Is Alone Together
17/08/2016 … He filled and he filled and he filled.
Joe DeRosa: Zero Forward Progress
17/08/2016 … We’re halfway through the Fringe and American first-timer Joe De Rosa still isn’t used to it – especially the more stop-start momentum of a festival crowd…