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Comedy

18 August 2024

  • Joe Kent-Walters; Olga Koch; Lou Wall; Jin Hao Li

    Edinburgh fringe comedy 2024 week two roundup: I’ve seen 50 shows but am I laughing?

  • The Gummy Bears' Great War

    A Jaffa Cake Musical and The Gummy Bears’ Great War: Edinburgh fringe stages battles with bite

  • Jin Hao Li

    Jin Hao Li: Swimming in a Submarine review – soothing meets unsettling in fringe comedy debut

  • No perceptible musical ability … Lynn Faces.

    Lynn Faces review – offbeat comedy pays punk tribute to Alan Partridge’s PA

17 August 2024

  • A winning concoction … One Man Musical.

    One Man Musical by Flo & Joan review – Andrew Lloyd Webber gets ‘a show about me!’

  • Standup comedian Alfie Packham

    Edinburgh unplugged: fire alarms and outages send fringe shows on to the streets

  • Sheeps

    Sheeps: The Giggle Bunch (That’s Our Name for You) review – still crazily funny after all these years

  • Lucy Mangan in Playfight.

    Playfight review – enthralling tale of the ascent to adulthood

  • Flashback
    Alex Horne looks back: ‘Both my careers – the Horne Section and Taskmaster – are an extension of playing with friends’

  • Rollercoaster review – fizzy tricks and funky escapades from a master of juggling

  • Rose Matafeo: On and On and On review – a star-crossed love life laid hilariously bare

  • I Am the Boss review – squabbling siblings’ hijinks at Edinburgh fringe

16 August 2024

  • Garry Starr:Classic Penguins.

    Garry Starr: Classic Penguins review – brilliantly ticklish riff on a stack of literary tomes

    Dressed as the publisher’s emblem, in orange flippers and not much else, the ingenious comic delivers a dizzy series of droll visual routines
  • Reginald D Hunter speaking into a microphone on a stage in 2021

    Scottish theatre cancels Reginald D Hunter show over heckling of Israelis

    East Renfrewshire venue cancels planned show after reports Edinburgh fringe audience booed people objecting to Israel joke

    • Sawdust Symphony review – a surreal circus where stagecraft meets woodcraft

    • Willy’s Candy Spectacular review – even the Sad Oompa Loompa can’t save this parody

    • Burning Down the Horse review – entertaining ancient Greek antics

15 August 2024

  • No trace of anxiety … Stevie Martin.

    Stevie Martin: Clout review – ingenious and silly tech-comedy

  • Reflective … Ivo Graham.

    Beyond the jokes: comedians switch to theatre at Edinburgh festival

14 August 2024

  • Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas in L'Addition at Summerhall, Edinburgh.

    L’Addition review – superbly absurd comedy is waitering for Godot

    Tim Etchells’ looping performance piece with Bert and Nasi replays a simple restaurant scene over and over with hilarious results
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