Anna Akana: It Gets Darker
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
11/08/2024 … How much tragedy, turmoil and trauma can one woman take? In her 34 years, Anna Akana has had an horrific stalker, a litany of mental health problems –…
2024 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sun 11 August 2024
Lil Wenker: Bangtail
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
11/08/2024 … There’s plenty of both rootin’ AND tootin’ in Bangtail, a broad send-up of Spaghetti western clichés.
Kate Cheka: A Messiah Comes
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
11/08/2024 … This is an impressive debut for a bright comic making her Fringe debut, especially given she’s doing so under her own steam, no agent nor producer…
Paul Savage: Hopes Under the Hammer
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
11/08/2024 … As the man with the most inappropriate surname in comedy, Paul Savage offers a friendly conversational saunter through some of the horrors of being a renter.
One Man Musical, from Flo & Joan
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
11/08/2024 … Flo and Joan risk the wrath of the supposedly litigious Andrew Lloyd Webber with their first musical.
Anirban Dasgupta: Polite Provocation
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
11/08/2024 … We take freedom of speech in comedy (within reason) for granted in the UK, but, thanks to the cohort of Indian stand-ups performing at the Fringe this year, we’re…
Sat 10 August 2024
Dylan Mulvaney: Faghag
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
10/08/2024 … Quite a lot of people would rather the world never heard from Dylan Mulvaney again, given she was the most hated woman among American transphobes last year…
Ted Hill: 110 Percent Normal
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
10/08/2024 … Making being a misfit relatable is the tacit underpinning of many identity-based stand-up shows, finding that paradoxical sweet spot for gently nudging the dial…