Ross Leslie: Pretty Shy for a White Guy 4****

Ross Leslie has been gaining a reputation over the years as a talented comic who is always a safe pair of hands in comedy terms and having seen his show I can concur. Leslie is a local guy, Edinburgh born … Read More

Police Cops – Police Cops in Space 5*****

The award winning Police Cops are back with their latest adventure ‘Police Cops In Space’, and it doesn’t disappoint. This show hits every Hollywood trope with aplomb, following the tale Sammy Johnson trying to fulfil his pledge to his dying … Read More

Eleanor Tiernan – Enjoying the Spotlight Responsibly 4****

Eleanor Tiernan is a self confessed cranky gen Xer who has definitely found her audience. The show was sold out and there was a real warmth for her in the room. She opens by empathizing with the audience’s experience of … Read More

Stephen Buchanan – Baby Dove 5*****

Stephen Buchanan was crowned the winner of the BBC New Comedy Award 2018. This, it seems, was enough to persuade Stephen to give up his job in a large supermarket and concentrate on comedy full time. A good choice. Stephen … Read More

Ali Brice: Bin Wondering 4****

This show’s brilliant. It’s random and inane throughout, and poignant and heartbreaking for the duration of a mayonnaise metaphor; it hold up flaws simply in order to air them, and then breaks the tension with the most unexpected and perfect … Read More

Science Idiot 3.5***

This show in one word: subversive. Ms Hunter starts the show with the usual format: tell something personal so the audience can relate, make yourself vulnerable so they’ll like you, and chat to the audience so you’re approachable rather than … Read More

Richard Fry: O Starry Night 4.5****

Stories about people going through difficult and awful things shouldn’t result in an entertaining, informative and above all, uplifting show, but Richard Fry pulls that feat off with aplomb.

This isn’t stand up in the laugh-after-every-few-sentences style. This is storytelling; … Read More

John Robins:- Hot Shame 4.5****

John Robins shared the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2017 with his ‘break-up show’ and he is back this year selling out big rooms and exhibiting all the skills and more with his 2018 offering Hot Shame. Robins classes himself as … Read More

Stewart Francis:- Into the Punset 4****

For more than twelve years Canadian funny man Stewart Francis has been retaking delighted audiences up and down the country with his oh so clever gags, puns and one-liners, but beware he is stopping at the end of the year. … Read More

Felix and the Scooterman:- Self-Help Yourself Famous 3***

So what happens to popstars when the hits dry up? Many things I suppose but the two remaining of The Hoosiers, Irwin Sparkes and Alan Sharland have reinvented themselves as former pop sensations Felix and the Scooterman, and are running … Read More