Edinburgh Review: Eric Rushton – Could Well Be In
Dave Baillie
Last year Eric Rushton was in the Monkey Barrel-run Hive bar, which smelled so bad that I left wondering precisely how many monkeys had died in that barrel. This year…
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Edinburgh Fringe Review: Ed Night – We’ll Be All Right, Darling
Sarah Stringer
We enter the venue to Clay Pigeons by Blaze Foley, which is one of the best songs ever written (in one comedy reviewer’s accurate opinion), and immediately sets a tone…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Dan Rath – Help Me Please
If you like Dan Rath’s usual stuff, you will love this show. If you do not, you might want to give it a miss; Rath recommends that several times throughout…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Mike Wozniak – The Bench
It’s not often you see an Edinburgh show and wonder exactly how it works.
Tom Sainsbury – Lessons Not Learnt
Alex Finch
New Zealand’s Tom Sainsbury tests the crowd fairly early on in the show, asking who’s here because of his Instagram sketches (a large chunk of the audience), his appearance on…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Samira Banks – Not Banking On It WIP
Samira Banks first came on my radar when I watched the finals of the So You Think You’re Funny competition in 2023, and was not remotely surprised when she won,…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Nick Helm – Down ‘n’ Dirty Weekend
This show was a release party for part 1 of Nick Helm’s triple album, Down ‘N’ Dirty, which was released on Bandcamp this week. The initial release is for the…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Hannah Platt – Cult Classic
Cult Classic is Hannah Platt’s sophomore hour, but she has the skill and presence of someone with far more experience. She commands the room easily, despite being small and self-described…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Phil Nichol – Aren’t We Lucky
When Phil Nichol was a younger comedian, he was loud, intense, and extremely physical in the way he ran around the stage and into the crowd to jump on the…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Bella Hull – Mad Cow Disease
Bella Hull is a performer capable of quickly generating an impressive amount of energy in a room. As we were settling in, I’d worried that this midweek lunchtime audience seemed…