For a Festival taking place in Scotland Scottish acts seem to get short shrift at the Edinburgh Fringe. Award nominees tend to be from abroad, London-based critics tend to home in on acts they know... more
Reviews
The 2022 Fringe will go down as a notable Fringe for all sorts of reasons. One of them may well be that it marked the arrival of a brand new wave of confident, assured comedians, comfortable in their... more
One thing a lot of comedians try to do with their Edinburgh shows is make an impact very quickly by starting big. Alasdair Beckett-King goes for the minimalist approach. He starts his show with the... more
Three men wearing ill-fitted old fashioned pastel suits bound onto the stage. We are about to see the greatest band in the history of the world. The Flop! Except nothing happens.... more
Lily Phillips has had her fair share of being objectified. She trained as a dancer then worked on the lower rungs of show business. She used to get paid to impersonate the blonde Disney... more
The Edinburgh Fringe has a habit of throwing up weird and wonderful physical comedy shows that are left wide open to interpretation. A few years ago it was Natalie Palamides and her egg-chucking show... more
Twenty years ago I ran into Simon Munnery as he was coming out of St Leonard’s police station, the morning after he was arrested on Arthur Smith’s traditional 2AM walking tour of the Royal Mile.... more
Lots of people have asked the question why comics do what they do, given that so many are so socially awkward and shy. You won’t find a better explanation than the one in Rob Auton’s show, which... more
Crizards Will Rowland and Eddy Hare say they've been called the "UK's lowest energy double act" and that is certainly not a case of mis-selling. Their new show Cowboys is so laid back it almost... more
Freshly married, living in London and now a British citizen, Italian Luca Cupani is enjoying a new lease of life. But it wasn’t always that way. Cupani tried and failed to leave Italy many times... more
