The Fred MacAulay Show

Fred McAuley is somewhat of a Scottish Institution. He is multi talented, being a stand up, a TV presenter and hosts a daily radio show on BBC Radio Scotland.

I first saw him at the Fringe I suppose 12 years … Read More

Fiona O’Laughlin

Aussie Sheila Fiona O’Loughlin introduces herself as the most uncool comedian on the Fringe being over forty, married and a mother of five.

Uncool maybe, but she is certainly funny with numerous stories based mostly on her extended family and … Read More

Faultless and Torrance Take Their Faces Off

Judith Faultless and Alys Torrance are a pair of comediennes who we previously saw in 2003 in the much acclaimed The Flirt Lab. They have impressive cv’s including radio and television, not to mention their work on the comedy circuit … Read More

Russell Brand – Eroticised Humour

Ok to start with I don’t watch ‘Big Brother’, we don’t have digital TV and I hadn’t been drinking before the show. Why then did it surprise me that I felt I was in a plastic bubble being kept … Read More

Tim Vine – Current Puns

Tim Vine is punny, he is so punny I lost count of the puns he uses. Or I would have had I started counting them. I have seen him around and about several times this year but I wouldn’t … Read More

Russell Howard – Skylarking

Russell Howard first came to our attention during the Pleasance Press Launch in 2004, we then saw him at The Stand Comedy Club. On the strength of these two snippets I went to see his full show ‘Skylarking’. Both … Read More

Tim Minchin – Darkside

Tim Minchin is very Australian (and very proud of it), multi-talented and immensely funny. His act is a cocktail of comedy songs, stand up, with a twist of poetry thrown in for good measure. He can be manic but … Read More

Sally Swallows & The Rise of Londinian

Billed as the Uk’s darkest and nastiest comedy -horror sketch show, I suppose it maybe has reached it’s aims. I found it nasty, the script horrible and the jokes and running gags generally poor. I was not alone, the … Read More

Tommy Tiernan – Loose

Thanks to Nicky for this review. At the start of Loose you see a large painting piece by piece which was painted by Tommy to represent what society would look like if he was in charge. Ultimately it was chaotic and larger … Read More

Scotland 4  Australia 1

No it’s not a football result, as if. What it is is a show case of four Scottish comedians Keir  McAllister, Peter Aitchison, Austin Low and Paul Pirie together with one Aussie, Kieron Butler, who do a showcase of … Read More