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Whoever had the idea to make Nish Kumar play the straight man (presumably Stuart Laws) is a genius. It’s far from an obvious choice, given his persona. But watching him…
The beautiful thing about the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, or any Fringe Festival, is getting to see DIY stuff, shows that are messy and chaotic because they can’t be slick every…
In the first half of Eli Matthewson’s show, he apologizes for being a bit too edgy when some of his stories have mild references to sex. By the end, he’s…
Hajar J Woodland is a singer who’s doing comedy as a way to tell her story of how she got into that. It’s a reminder that comedians tend to be…
Three things I know about David O’Doherty: I safely watched the 2026 solar eclipse on the steps outside the Aikman Theatre this week. Safe, that is, in the knowledge that…
A few seconds into Simon Munnery’s self-intro announcement from the backstage green room, we’re all reminded why we’re here. A performer who can get a dozen laughs from a minute…
Emma Holland reverses the normal order of Fringe stand-up shows, in which the tragedy happens at the beginning, and she spends the rest of the hour making it funny. This…
Gareth Waugh is an amiable and funny comedian, a rising star of the Scottish comedy scene – although if you’ve seen him before there’s perhaps a good chance it was…
Geoffrey Asmus is an American with an impressive joke writing sensibility, one that’s frequently mentioned by fellow comedians on podcasts, and I was really curious to see him in action.…
This show has a lot of buzz around it for a debut hour, though Harriet Richardson isn’t new to creative or performance-based work – she’s a performance artist, doing live…
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