Noel Faulkner: Shake, Rattle & Noel

Why I choose some Fringe shows I can’t always remember, this was one of these shows. I hadn’t realised Noel Faulkner has a mild form of Tourettes. Actually I wasn’t sure who Noel actually was.

Having spent an hour listening … Read More

Newsrevue 24/7

Newsrevue holds the Guinness World Record for the longest running live comedy and it is not hard to understand why. I have been attending their shows in Edinburgh for at least ten years and it is always one of the … Read More

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Tremendous from the first “It’s” to the very cheeky finale. I must admit to being a Python fan since the first TV airing of the original Pythons over three decades ago. Therefore to impress me, the standard would have to … Read More

The Monkey Butlers

The Monkey Butlers are Hal Cruttenden, Zoe Lyons, Caimh McDonnell and Paddy Lennox who together perform this hour of sketch comedy that is amongst the best on offer at the Fringe this year, and probably for a few years previously … Read More

Michael Mee: Confessions of a Swot

Schoolboy experiences form the basis of Michael Mee’s act. His opening is bright and funny as he relates the pitfalls of putting a Christian name to his unusual surname. Settling at an early age in Cork from Canada but of … Read More

Miles Jupp – Young Man in a huff

Miles brings an upper class perspective on things to the Fringe. His specific slant usuallyentails him keeping the lower classes in their place. He puts forward his own personal views and critiques on modern art, music, literature and new class … Read More

Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe

Mervyn Stutter has been doing this how for 14 years at the Fringe and not much in the format has changed.

Mr Stutter does a couple of numbers having chatted to his packed audience for a while, still dressed in … Read More

Matt Blaize

Matt Blaize starts his show by commenting on his love, or otherwise, of dinner parties. The rules state we are not allowed to discuss, Religion Sex or Politics, so our topics for tonight are surprise surprise Religion, Politics and Sex.

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Lunchbox Live

Lunchbox Live is another of the showcase shows that give punters an insite as to what is available on the Fringe 2005.

The show I saw was compered by the excellent Topping and Butch and as all good comperes promoted … Read More

Lucy Porter – Happiness

I have been following the career of Lucy Porter for a few years now having been impressed with seeing her do literally a minute of her act on a show called sixty acts in sixty minutes.

Lucy’s show this year … Read More