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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,…
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.”…
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,…
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…
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…
Frankie McNair is new to Edinburgh, arriving from Australia with a show that comes highly recommended by reviews, oversees awards nominations, and word of mouth. The actual performance lived up…
When it comes to world-building Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma deserves some kind of an award for covering the most ground in the shortest time period.…
I’m currently half way through Rich Hall’s excellent autobiography Nailing It at the moment and so when I spotted that he was playing the Teviot Debating Hall I had no…
I scheduled 10 shows to watch on August 21 as, to misappropriate a John-Luke Roberts quote, an experiment in whether someone can do that. They were all at the Monkey…
Amy Matthews starts this afternoon by lampooning how difficult middle-aged men have it, before hitting us with a couple of really great bits about sneezes and jam. I haven’t seen…
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