Andy Barr – The Hotly Anticipated 4th Debut Hour from Rising Star Andy Barr 3***

Andy Barr returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with his new show, “The Hotly-Anticipated Fourth Debut Hour of Rising Star, Andy Barr” and it’s a full on hour of absurdity and silliness.

His musings are at times rather random but there’s … Read More

Douglas Widick: Paperclip 3.5***

This warm-hearted, wonderfully silly show opens with Douglas Widick explaining why he’s travelled back in time to kill the Godfather of computing. The reason? A future ruled by evil AI. Remember Clippy? (If you were born between 1985 and 1995, … Read More

Dirty Work 5*****

There the shape a story underpinning this show, and it took me several hours post-show to parse it out. The story is doled out between hilarity in little snippets and slightly obscure allusions that need to be reconstructed, along with … Read More

Kayleigh Jones: I Fed My Dad to a Pelican 3***

This show has an excellent title: precisely true without really telling anything close to the whole story. It’s a good story, and worth visiting the show to hear the whole thing. Ms Jones is first and foremost a really good … Read More

Any Objections? 3.5***

Delivery of this show steadily becomes more self-assured as it moves on through, changing from a naturalistically-performed script to proper comedic delivery about the point where Scarlet dons a fabulous red jacket and invites us to guess the mystery object … Read More

Fisherman Jon: What’s on the End of My Rod? A Clown Odyssey 4****

By the end of this weird little delight, we’ve been buffeted by so much oddity that a message of love and acceptance that would otherwise be schmaltzy and twee lands exactly as it should: sincere and devoid of cynicism. We … Read More

Tape Face: 20 – 5*****

What’s more to say about Tape Face? The comedy alter ego of New Zealander Sam Willis, the enigmatic Boy With Tape of His Face is an international sensation – multi award winning, America’s Got Talent Finalist and Las Vegas staple.

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The Physician of Oz 3.5***

A very funny collective of short medical comedy sketches, performed by medical students, on the journey of a junior doctor into the world of Foundation Year. Poking fun at the current NHS crisis, junior doctor strikes and the expectations and … Read More

Alasdair Beckett-King: King of Crumbs 5*****

A welcome return to the Fringe from the self-proclaimed “Travelling Whimsy Merchant”, the new show from Alasdair Beckett-King (or ABK, for short) is a delightful assortment of oddments of jokes, asides and flights of fancy. Pitched as, at least … Read More

Rohan Sharma – Mad Dog 3***

Mad Dog is a pocket rocket of a show, fuelled by madcap comedy and a look into this young British Hindu’s life and early childhood.  Rohan Sharma shares his memories on what it’s like for an Indian boy growing up … Read More