Inspired comedy or child exploitation? For his latest show award-winning Kiwi physical comedian Trygve Wakenshaw has formed a double act with his 13-month-old son Phineas. Someone suggested to me... more
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You think you had a bad year? Paul Sinha may be able to trump you. In Shout Out To My Ex the former doctor now best known as The Sinnerman, the general knowledge buff on The Chase, reflects... more
After a while you start hallucinating and think you can see emotions flickering across the three naked bottoms ranked across the stage. Adrienne Truscott, Ursula Martinez and Zoe Coombs Marr... more
The show begins with an announcement. Terry Alderton will not be appearing, he is lost in an endless feedback loop inside his head.Instead we get a comedy band, with a lead singer who looks... more
Update December 2017. Spencer Jones is doing this show at the Soho Theatre until January 6, 2018. Buy tickets here.Update 23/8/17: Spencer Jones has been nominated for a lastminute.com Edinburgh... more
You won’t see another comedy show on the Edinburgh Fringe like Robert White’s InstruMENTAL. That’s for sure. But then again you won’t see another performer like Robert White, who is gay, ... more
Update 23/8/17: Lauren Pattison has been nominated for a lastminute.com Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer. See nominees here. There is a taboo among women in comedy about talking... more
Pirate radio station Kurupt FM is back - hurrah – but it has a rival – hiss. In the first episode of the new series, best MC in the galaxy Grindah (Allan Mustafa) has grown his hair, got hooked on... more
In the past three years Al Porter has progressed from playing a tiny room at the Gilded Balloon to a giant barn at the Underbelly.As we come into the room a toga clad keyboard player and two backing... more
When you’ve been seeing comedy shows back to back for over a week themes and subjects start to emerge and knit together. I left Kiri Pritchard-McLean’s show in which she touches on her recent break... more
