Review: Joseph Morpurgo – Highlander 70
Sarah Stringer
Joseph Morpurgo returns with a new live show after some years, and it reaches his high standards. He’s written a comedy play based on a single object that he pillages…
Comedy
Review: Salty Brine – How Strange It Is
Alex Finch
This is the fourth time I’ve seen Salty Brine and The Living Record Collection, and yet it’s still a little tricky to describe exactly what takes place in one of…
Review: Catherine Bohart – Borrowing Trouble
Some people say performing stand-up comedy is like therapy. Catherine Bohart’s latest show discusses how some forms of therapy, like knockoff app-based ones, and stand-up comedy, don’t work as well…
Stand-up special review: Stuart Laws – Three-Way
Stuart Laws is known for high-concept stand-up hours, playing silly characters as he unravels the intricacies of absurd scenarios. But in recent years, he’s done stand-up about his real life,…
Review: Scout Boxall – God’s Favourite
This show had a lot of buzz around it, coming out of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and as it transferred to London, it lives up to the hype. God’s Favourite…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Guy Williams – Rich people are stealing from you and blaming brown people and trans people and some people believe them aaahhhhhh!
This is Guy Williams’ third show in Edinburgh, and if you liked the first two, you will like this one. It’s more stuff along the Guy Williams line: shouty, angry,…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Sean Morely – Backchannel
We’ve all been there. We’ve all seen a stand-up show that makes some interesting observation, and we’ve thought, “I wonder if that’s true, it would be cool to test it.”…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Tom Ballard – Be Funny Challenge (Impossible)
Tom Ballard has picked an incredibly tricky subject for a comedy show in 2026: trying to defend his choice to do a Nazi salute on stage in his 2024 show,…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Rosco McClelland – The Bones
Two years ago, Rosco McClelland did a serious stand-up show about his potentially life-threatening medical condition. One year ago, he did a fun stand-up show with material about Roombas, and…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Tom Cashman – NPC (Nearly Perfect Comedian)
Tom Cashman has a persona that’s hard to pin down. Sometimes he relies too hard on mainstream tropes and seems like he’d make a great club comedian, but he also…