Stephen Buchanan – Baby Dove 5*****

Stephen Buchanan was crowned the winner of the BBC New Comedy Award 2018. This, it seems, was enough to persuade Stephen to give up his job in a large supermarket and concentrate on comedy full time. A good choice. Stephen … Read More

Ali Brice: Bin Wondering 4****

This show’s brilliant. It’s random and inane throughout, and poignant and heartbreaking for the duration of a mayonnaise metaphor; it hold up flaws simply in order to air them, and then breaks the tension with the most unexpected and perfect … Read More

Science Idiot 3.5***

This show in one word: subversive. Ms Hunter starts the show with the usual format: tell something personal so the audience can relate, make yourself vulnerable so they’ll like you, and chat to the audience so you’re approachable rather than … Read More

Richard Fry: O Starry Night 4.5****

Stories about people going through difficult and awful things shouldn’t result in an entertaining, informative and above all, uplifting show, but Richard Fry pulls that feat off with aplomb.

This isn’t stand up in the laugh-after-every-few-sentences style. This is storytelling; … Read More

John Robins:- Hot Shame 4.5****

John Robins shared the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2017 with his ‘break-up show’ and he is back this year selling out big rooms and exhibiting all the skills and more with his 2018 offering Hot Shame. Robins classes himself as … Read More

Stewart Francis:- Into the Punset 4****

For more than twelve years Canadian funny man Stewart Francis has been retaking delighted audiences up and down the country with his oh so clever gags, puns and one-liners, but beware he is stopping at the end of the year. … Read More

Felix and the Scooterman:- Self-Help Yourself Famous 3***

So what happens to popstars when the hits dry up? Many things I suppose but the two remaining of The Hoosiers, Irwin Sparkes and Alan Sharland have reinvented themselves as former pop sensations Felix and the Scooterman, and are running … Read More

Flo and Joan:- Before they are Screaming 4****

Yes Flo and Joan are actually sisters, but you wouldn’t immediately guess that by looking at them. Neither are they really called Flo and Joan, but that doesn’t matter. What they are is very talented women who know how to … Read More

Sara Barron:- Enemies Closer 4****

It had not been the best day. Rain, shows running late even a fire alarm at the venue. What was required was an hour of top class comedy to make things better and that is exactly what I got. American, … Read More

Neil Delamere:- End of Watch 4****

Back in his native Ireland Delamere is a superstar and it seems there are quite a few of his countrymen who follow him to Edinburgh too. But they are not alone. For years now Neil has been a hot ticket. … Read More