Jason Cook – Broken 5*****

Jason Cook may be best known to a lot of people as the creator and writer of, and as Ramsey in, the BBC2 series Hebburn but for many, many years Jason has been a top class … Read More

Carey Marx – Abominable 5*****

Carey Marx is one of many comics who have decided to move from the paid, or should that be paying Fringe and is performing his 2014 show as part of the PBH Free Fringe. Free it may be to get … Read More

Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe 4****

It may have been going for twenty three years now but this show fronted by the man in the pink suit is still rightly revered as the must do show of this type by legions, myself included.

It is a … Read More

Felicity Ward – The Iceberg 4****

Felicity starts off her show by explaining the title, the iceberg, like life, is all about perception and perspective. Like an iceberg most people only reveal a small part of themselves with the majority hidden under the surface, however in … Read More

Carl Donnelly – Now That’s What I Carl Donnelly Vol. 6 4****

Fresh from his nomination of The Foster comedy Award in 2013 Carl Donnelly brings his new show back to the Pleasance for 2014 and as always is playing to packed houses. And it is easy to see why.

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Jo Caulfield – Cancel My Subscription 5*****

Having had a year off in 2013 Jo Caulfield makes a welcome return to what is a home gig for her now being an Edinburgh resident and the Fringe is the better for her presence.

Of course with the referendum … Read More

Celia Pacquola – Tell Me How it Works Out 4****

Celia is an Aussie comedian who has been a regular performer over the last few Fringes and is a firm favourite of many and that is of no real surprise given … Read More

Lucy Porter – Me Time 5*****

Has it really been more than a decade since this little bundle of happiness first graced the Fringe? Apparently as she informs the packed to the gunwales crowd that it is her tenth show and I am sure there was … Read More

Dane Baptiste – Citizen Dane 4****

Dane Baptiste is a comic doing his first Edinburgh show which I suppose must be a nerve-racking experience but it didn’t seem so for this cool guy of Grenadian heritage.

From the … Read More

Kraken 5*****

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This is another of those shows that you have to be ready to engage with because it’s not a sit back and be passive type of thing. And there’s lots of audience participation – not just from … Read More