Chris Coltrane: Left-Wing Propaganda Machine 5*****

This is the most stand-up of comedy that I’ve seen Mr Coltrane do: no stories about his year of activism, or poking fun at people in power, but an hour of solid political comedy. It’s political in subject … Read More

Rhinoceros 3***

What can you make your audience do, how far can you go? People who like to sit, listen and have minimal contact with the performer are really not going to enjoy this show. Victor Slung is a poacher-turned-conservationist … Read More

Matt Forde: Get the Political Party Started 4****

Has there ever been a better time for a political comedian to be around given what has happened over the last 12 months and is to happen in the imminent future? … Read More

Ed Gamble: Lawman 4****

Ed Gamble likes playing by the rules. And some of them are his alone and his turn ‘em away at the door packed house is updated on these near the top of the show.

Gamble is another young white middle … Read More

Immigrant Diaries: Sajeela Kershi and Guests 4****

Immigrant Diaries is certainly a show that lives up to what it says on the tin, unlike many others on offer this year, in that it is really a selection of performers from across the Fringe … Read More

Alex Edelman: Everything Handed to You 5*****

Alex Edelman had a pretty damn good Fringe 2014, a hit debut hour that won him the Fosters Newcomers Award, thoroughly deserved in my opinion. But how has the last year treated him? Judging from his … Read More

Dane Baptiste: Reasonable Doubts 5*****

I was not alone in being impressed by Dane Baptiste last year in fact he was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award s was interested to see how he went about the difficult second show.

I need not have worried. … Read More

Abigoliah Schamaun: Post-Coital Confessions 4***

The first time I saw Abigoliah Schamaun a year or two ago she was interspersing her comedy with some of her ‘previous life’ as a side-show performer.

There is no need for such gimmick now this ballsy New Yorker, … Read More

Laura Lexx: Lovely 3***

Laura Lexx is lovely. But she is worried. She muses that the best Fringe shows deal with overcoming something bad, and she is too fortunate in her life. What a bummer. So what should a girl … Read More

George Egg: Anarchist Cook 3***

George Egg is a stand-up he informs us, and as such spends a lot of time in hotel rooms and has obviously a lot of time on his hands. And thought things through and has discovered … Read More