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

Robert Dubac’s the Male Intellect: An Oxymoron

Apologies to those familiar with the figure of speech, but an oxymoron is defined as the combination of contradictory words to form an expressive phrase. Knowing this, gives an idea where Robert Dubac is coming from. The male intellect, … Read More

Strange Shadows  –  Scriptease

Is Impro passé?  Has it all been done before? Well probably the answer to the second question is yes, but, somehow, and it’s down to the incredible talent of the six cast members that they have turned what could … Read More

Romantic Comedy – A Stand-up Show

Terry Saunders is a tall, mid 20’s Londoner with something of a Woody Allen Appearance. He has an engaging, easy and even soft delivery. Opening with a lively routine about auctioning on e-bay, he quickly involved the audience with … Read More

That American Shakespeare Thing

Take 11 young High School (American) students mix in an American take on the bard some fast talking, a one wicked imagination and you get ‘That American Shakespeare Thing’. They say I talk quickly, but at times I couldn’t … 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