Ciarán Bartlett: Machine Gun of Filth
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
28/08/2023 … Ciarán Bartlett's a strong late-night booking, a roistering showman with more strings to his act than his impressive guitar-playing.
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Mon 28 August 2023
Geraldine Hickey: Of Course We've Got Horses
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
28/08/2023 … The story of Geraldine Hickey’s recent wedding is joyful but also so soft as to be forgettable, saved only by an unaffected low-key delivery that’s quietly…
The Umbilical Brothers: The Distraction
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
28/08/2023 … Back in the old days, the Umbilical Brothers recall, sketch performers had to ask audiences to use their imagination to conjure up the scenes they were depicting.
Sun 27 August 2023
Dave Hill: Caveman in a Spaceship
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
27/08/2023 … With mild pyrotechnics, elemental effects and physical threat to one of the seating banks, Dave Hill makes quite the return to the Fringe after 13 years away.
Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty to Me
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
27/08/2023 … Eleanor Conway maintains that she doesn't know a lot about politics, but the personal is resolutely political in her latest sexually frank, feminist show.
George Zacharopoulos: Wonderland
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
27/08/2023 … George Zacharopoulos isn't cast in the heroic mould of his Greek homeland's ancient classicism, at least not in the conventional sense.
William Thompson: The Hand You're Dealt
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
27/08/2023 … Middle-class comics can do a full hour about being a bit sad (to grossly oversimplfiy), while working-class comics like William Thompson can have a drug-dealer dad…
Jay Lafferty: Bahookie
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
27/08/2023 … Like Hitchcock's famous bomb under the table, Jay Lafferty's pole dancing pole stands to the side of her, untouched for the greater part of her show, less…