Reviews
Mark Steel: Who Do I Think I Am?
Nature or nurture? A comic study of what comprises a person’s identity.
Patrick Monahan: The Disco Years
Comedy gentleman transports audiences with a hybrid of disco and comedy.
Adam Hills: Clown Heart
Last Leg star brings frank, honest and achingly funny tour to Glasgow with a first-class finish.
Jenny Eclair: How To Be A Middle Aged Woman (Without Going Insane)
The hot flush and girl power for the over-50s are reclaimed.
The Sunday Night Laugh-In
A packed bill of quality acts is just the ticket for getting over the New Year blues, with a decent mix of new faces and Fringe favourites.
Gilded Balloon Comedy Nights November
Bringing back a bit of the festival once a month with comedy showcases, The Studio at Festival Theatre reminds us what a great comedy hub Edinburgh can be the rest of the year too.
Dan Clark: Me, My Selfie & I
Dan Clark is refusing to grow up gracefully in a show that combines the puerile and the poetic to fine effect.
Fringe Flashback: Fern Brady – People are Idiots
Spiky and insightful excellence from a tremendous talent who is far nicer than she would probably like you to believe.
Gilded Balloon Comedy Nights October
Jen Brister, Chris Macarthur-Boyd and Jarred Christmas are this month’s trio at the Festival Theatre Studio.
“Weird Al” Yankovic
“Weird Al” Yankovic plays a gig in Scotland for the first time. Did it work, or was he a parody of himself?
Gilded Balloon Comedy Nights September
A very decent evening of stand-up slightly marred by a soulless venue and sparse post-Fringe crowd.
Comedians Against Humanity
The “party game for horrible people” played by comedians is as twisted and hilarious as one would expect.
The Beau Zeaux: An Improvised Comedy
Pastry empires, Italian immigrants and bedtime stories mesh together for a diverting improvised hour.
Andrew Doyle: Minimalism!
More Mahatma Gandhi than minimalism, but Doyle’s razor sharp tongue makes for a very funny show.