Adele Cliff : Adele, Adele, Adele…Cliff It Isn’t the Consequences of My Own Actions 4****

Adele Cliff made her Fringe debut back in 2016 and returns with a brand new show. The show covers quite a random array of topics. Adele launches into her performance with much assured confidence of a stand up who is … Read More

Jack Traynor – Before I Forget 4****

In his debut hour at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, west coast Scot, Jack Traynor explodes onto the stage like a man kicked out of time, space, and probably Waitrose. He enters like a surprise WWE Royal Rumble contestant, high-fiving the … Read More

2 Slut Drops and a Chicken Burger 3.5***

Leicester comedian Kirsty Munro knows exactly how to set the mood. Within seconds, the lights are up, Natasha Bedingfield’s Unwritten is blasting, and the audience is singing like it’s 2004 and they’re already three cocktails deep. Subtle? Absolutely not. But … Read More

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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