Rosie Jones: I Can’t Tell What She’s Saying 4.5****

Rosie Jones asks if anyone doesn’t know who she is. I don’t, actually, but I stay silent. “Get out! Get out! Get out!” she screams to joyful laughter. Why is this not scary or mean? Because Jones, who has cerebral … Read More

Helicops 1: Find Your Wings! – 4****

With a premise of “there are some policemen who are part-helicopter” (indicated by them wearing cycle helmets with propellor blades) and when your narrator is the building that houses their headquarters you know that you are not coming to … Read More

Raul Kohli: Buddha vs Jesus 3☆☆☆

This show has backstory, and unusually, it’s backstory that does in fact have bearing on the show and the performance: both actors – in a two-character play – presumably fully rehearsed, lines perfected and movements blocked – pulled out of … Read More

MC Hammersmith: Ice Ice Nepo Baby ★★★★½

MC Hammersmith sends out his butler to greet the 250 of us squeezed into Assembly 3.

His butler (Stuart Murphy) takes the reins of the room, hilariously betraying Hammersmith with things he’s said in passing that clearly weren’t meant to … Read More

Frankie McNair: HugeAss Mindset 5*****

Frankie McNair is clearly too much for this audience — far too funny, far too fast. She has us cackling at things we’d really really rather not be seen laughing at, it seems impossible not to though.

She careens onto … Read More

Sarah Bradley : How to Write a Romcom 4****

In a converted lecture room, Sarah Bradley sets her stall out early, with a top-notch, high-production VT intro filmed around Edinburgh, setting the tone that we are not in Kansas anymore. We are about to be transferred to the romcom-osphere, … Read More

Alan Jay : Hell Hath No Humour Like a Gayboy Scorned 4****

Glasgow’s Alan Jay is a man on a mission and sets his stall out with a spring-break trapdoor entrance, with an energy that immediately takes hold of a sold-out crowd. And boy, are they up for it, to the extent … Read More

Ruaridh Miller : Autocorrect Thinks My Name is “Rubbish” 4****

Edinburgh’s favourite son Ruaridh Miller is back for his second Fringe hour and the ginger prince’s crown is brighter than ever. As the title says on the tin, he’s found out in the last twelve months that the world has … Read More

Dom McGovern : Prize Hog 4****

Prize Hog is the debut Fringe show from Dom McGovern, a comedian, writer and actor from London. He is the co-writer of Chicken Shop Date with Amelia Dimoldenberg. Episodes of the show have been viewed more than twenty million times … Read More

Grace Mulvey — Gigantica 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

In the hothouse of a cargo container, something special is brewing. And it’s not just the kicking Grace Mulvey is about to give wanky IPA names in her set. Something wickedly funny is about to this way come.

Grace arrives … Read More