Vir Das: The Fool
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
24/08/2024 … A year after winning an International Emmy for Best Comedy Series for his Netflix special, Landing, Vir Das is more determined than ever to make people think.
2024 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sat 24 August 2024
Paul Williams: Mamiya 7
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
24/08/2024 … Paul Williams’ latest show is framed as a romantic quest, a found footage escapade rendered in technicolour and gorgeous pastels, taking in the boulevards…
Ahh I Appear to Be Having a Breakdown: The Debut Hour From Peter Bazely
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
24/08/2024 … Such is Peter Bazely’s disdain for middle-of-the-road stand-up, dismissed as podcasting about family and relationships while doing routines about your awful…
Spring Day: Exvangelical
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
24/08/2024 … ‘By the time I was 13, my mum had hit me so much it’s a miracle I’m not doing burlesque,’ says Spring Day, in a typically jet-black joke…
Knight, Knight
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
24/08/2024 … This spritely and stupidly inventive show is the funniest take on Arthurian legend since Monty Python.
Mark Bittlestone: I Need A Straight Guy
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
24/08/2024 … Wearing a football shirt bedazzled with rhinestones, Mark Bittlestone says he’s what’s known in the industry as ’a little gay boy’.
Larry Dean: Dodger
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
24/08/2024 … A reveal partway through Larry Dean’s show goes a long way to explaining his enthusiasm for pulling expressive, contorted faces, his often monstrous physicality…
Ellie MacPherson: Babe Lincoln
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
24/08/2024 … A modern musical about a historic US political figure? I can’t see that ever catching on… Ellie MacPherson is a huge Abraham Lincoln buff, identifying…