The Oxford Imps

There seems to be an awful lot of impro comedy on the Fringe this year, could be it is making a comeback? Now impro can be very god and when it is it’s one of my favourite comedy mediums, but … Read More

Owen O’Neill: Chasing My Tail

I have only seen Owen O’Neill in straight plays, ‘Twelve Angry Men’ and ‘One flew over theCuckoos Nest’, Geoff has seen him as either compere of a best of Irish or doing a 15 min slot. I decided it was … Read More

Omid Djalili – No Agenda

What would a Hollywood ‘Actor’ who has been in a TV sitcom with the amazing Woopie Goldberg be doing in Edinburgh In August?

Why performing stand-up comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival!

This is what the multi talented Omid Djalili … Read More

Not the Footlights

I must admit I hadn’t expected too much prior to visiting this show, Northern Youth Theatre appearing to cash in on taking the mickey out of Cambridge Footlights at best I’d expected.

I was wrong, quite wrong. What was served … Read More

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