Edinburgh Fringe Review: Harriet Richardson – Creep
Sarah Stringer
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…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Hasan Al-Habib – Stuck in the Middle (East) With You
Hasan Al-Habib is an immediately intense stage presence. He can jump between accents and voices, slipping fully into the construct that comedy historian Oliver Double calls “instant character”, where a…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Dee Allum – Raumdeuter
This show is ostensibly based around how trans people relate to watching football, though that framing device is used lightly (to the point where I wished it had come up…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Kristen Schaal – The Legend of Crystal Shell
Flight of the Conchords, 30 Rock, Bob’s Burgers, The Daily Show, What We Do in the Shadows, Bojack Horseman – Kristen Schaal has been in everything good, but if your…
Edinburgh Fringe Festival – August 11th, 2026
Adam Riches: The Critics’ Way – 15:10 at Underbelly Cowgate, Cow Café A character show on the subject of comedy reviewing is a fun meta-concept that didn’t have quite enough…
From The Archives: George Fouracres – Gentlemon
Alex Finch
Seven years ago George Fouracres was already building up an impressive comedy CV as part of the sketch group Daphne, though it was only when SNL UK proved to be…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Ahir Shah – Golden
This is Ahir Shah’s first finished show since his well-deserved win of the Edinburgh Award, with Ends in 2023. It’s a tough act to follow, but he achieves that beautifully.…
Patti Harrison – Just Ironing Some Things Out
Simon Huxtable
How do you write comedy under fascism? That’s the question Patti Harrison asks on the opening night of her two-week run at the Soho Theatre. Faced with Trump in the…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: John-Luke Roberts: What I Talk About When I Run About, Talking
John-Luke Roberts told us that this year, he’s going to eschew his absurdism and experimental stuff in favour of straight stand-up. I assumed that would be misdirection of some sort,…
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Phil Nichol – The Naked Racist
This show won Phil Nichol the Perrier Award in 2006 (actually, he was the first person to win it after it was no longer called the Perrier Award, but it…