Stanley Brooks: I Can Make Me Rich
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
14/08/2023 … With the deliberately ambiguous I Can Make Me Rich – whose benefit is this for, us or his? - Stanley Brooks is a broad yet adaptable spoof of the financial…
2023 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Mon 14 August 2023
Jonny Pelham: Optimism Over Despair
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
14/08/2023 … Stand-ups are always lauding comedy as a way to confront dark issues, with large sections of this festival based on comedians processing their trauma through laughs…
Daniel Foxx: Villain
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
14/08/2023 … Daniel Foxx is part of a sea change at this year’s festival, a clutch of comics making their debuts having built their audiences via social media rather than…
Phil Ellis’s Excellent Comedy Show
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
14/08/2023 … Phil Ellis’s Excellent Comedy Show has got it all: music, singing, dancing, improvised rap, puns, emotional heft, TikTok videos… Is he any…
Sam Lake: Aspiring DILF
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
14/08/2023 … What a glorious lunchtime hoot this show is, with never a dip nor laboured moment in an hour that rackets along.
Lucas O'Neil: Emotional Man
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
14/08/2023 … This feels like the year that American comedy has fully embraced the British-style solo show, with themes, messages and storytelling as important as the jokes –…
Sun 13 August 2023
Ian Smith: Crushing
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
13/08/2023 … Midway through this performance, Ian Smith builds up to a rare moment of (limited) vulnerability when he’s heckled by the wheezing and clanking of the ancient…
Cerys Bradley: Not Overthinking Things 2019
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
13/08/2023 … For their charming debut hour Sportsperson, Cerys Bradley was apparently criticised in some circles for not being mean enough to the audience.