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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – REVIEW – Viv Groskop: Vivalicious ***
In Vivalicious writer, broadcaster and comedian Viv Groskop’s attempts to become her best self through the gospel of Oprah Winfrey.
Groskop grew up in a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 REVIEW – One Woman Sex and the City ****
In the year Sex and the City celebrated the 20th anniversary of its first airing, writer and performer Kerry Ipema takes us on a hilarious...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Ciarán Dowd Don Rodolfo
This August, character comedian Ciarán Dowd (as seen in BBC1's Josh, E4's Gameface and fringe hit sketch shows from BEASTS) becomes total butthead, shameless libertine and incomparable swordsman: Don...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Charlie Partridge
Charlie Partridge (host of The Moth Live in London, international hit Rebel
Bingo and one half of fringe hit sketch duo Robin & Partridge) tried to be...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – My Kind of Michael
Very funny exploration of the rise and fall of Nick Cassenbaum’s hero, Michael Barrymore
Ever since his Nanna Sylvie bought him ‘Barrymore’s Best Bites’ on VHS when...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Sisters
Innovative sketch duo Sisters (Christy White-Spunner and Mark Jones) return to the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the ground-breaking follow up to their smash hit
debut.
The critically...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Sleeping Trees : World Tour
Following the huge success of their epic movie inspired trilogy: MAFIA?, WESTERN? and SCI-FI?, the award winning sketch trio Sleeping Trees embarked on a “WorldTour”. But...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Naomi McDonald: Stardumb
One of the UK’s hottest young comedy talents - impressionist Naomi McDonald is smashing down the dressing room doors and rounding up a roomful...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Olaf Falafel: There’s no i in idiot
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree | 2 - 26 August (not
14) @ 2:45pm except 21 -25 @ 12:15pm
Critically acclaimed idiot and author, Olaf Falafel is back with another...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Laura Lexx: Trying
The Turret, Gilded BalloonTeviot |3 -26 August (not 15) @ 17:15
Recently, Laura has been busy hosting on BBC Radio 4 Extra’s Comedy Club, winning the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Nick Hall: Spencer
A one-man comedy play about the British Prime Minister that history forgot.
Underbelly (Clover), Bristo Square @ 13:30 August 1 - 27 (not 13)
‘I am murdered!’
It’s May 11th, 1812. The...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Sid Singh: American Bot
Just the Tonic at The Mash House (Cask House)
2 - 26 (not 13) August @ 18:25
Following his first solo stand-up album, Amazing, Probably, which went to number 3...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Leo Kearse: Right Wing Comedian
Pravda @ Espionage | 2 - 27 (not 14) @ 7.30pm
Scottish Comedian of the Year Leo Kearse rips into liberals in his follow up to last year's...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Rory O’Keeffe: The 37th Question
One show: three possible endings.
Banshee Labyrinth (Cinema Room) 4 – 26 August @ 13:20
Stuart and Zoe meet for their first date and do ‘The 36 Questions’, an infamous psychological experiment designed...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Alex Kealy: A Kealy’s Heel
Political comedian & ball of anxiety Alex Kealy trains his sights on love and politics. II’s territory already covered by War & Peace, Life...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Dominic Frisby’s Financial Game Show
Gilded Balloon Teviot, Billiard Room 1 - 26 August 2018 (except 15) @ 17:00
Kerr-ching!
For his much anticipated return to Edinburgh, following his widely-acclaimed show, Let’s Talk About Tax,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Barry Ferns: Barry Loves You
BARRY FERNS: BARRY LOVES YOU | 3 - 27 August (not 13) @ 21:00 |Just The Tonic at The Tron
Love is an absolutely subjective term. What does...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 Review – Ideal Home ***
Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd star as Erasmus and Paul, long-term lovers who live a carefree life in Sante Fe, where Erasmus is a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Alice Marshall The Strike
Alice Marshall: The Strike
Winner of the 2017 Brighton Fringe Best Comedy Award returns with a brand new show!
Just The Tonic @ The Caves - Aug 2nd-26th,...
Gilded Balloon launches its FIRST Winter Programme!
Gilded Balloon is proud to present a brand-new, year-round home for comedy, theatre and cabaret right in the heart of the city’s West End
Headlining...
Comedian Tom Stade to Appear at The Stand
Tom Stade’s 60 date Autumn tour comes to Edinburgh in November.
Canadian stand-up, Tom’s, affable and easy going wit is, as always, in evidence. A...
Stand up comedy featuring Seymour Mace (and burgers)
There will be a night of live, alternative stand up comedy at the Braid Hills Hotel, Morningside on 3 November 2017 with Seymour Mace.
The...
Your deepest desires revealed in song
The Singing Psychic is back at the Edinburgh Fringe – she always knew she would be.
This time the amazing Polish visionary unveils her brand spanking new...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Sh!t I’m in Love with you Again
Rachelle Elie can tell you more about love and relationships than Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna and Katy Perry could ever do – and she’s laying it all...
Discover the Difficulties of Romance at this Year’s Edinburgh Fringe
Discover the
Difficulties of Romance at this Year’s Edinburgh Fringe
Show Title: Schutte the Unromantic
Written and performed by Katy Schutte
Katy Schutte is a Funny Women finalist and...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Sixth Night: Shakespeare For Those With Short Attention Spans
Rolling In The Aisle Productions presents:
Sixth Night: Shakespeare For Those With Short Attention Spans
How do you bring Shakespeare to the Edinburgh Fringe? Cut down...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – NAKED AMBITION
In 1997 Simon Morley created the global smash hit and Edinburgh Fringe
favourite Puppetry of the Penis. Now he bares all in a slightly
different way,...
Just Festival 2017
Just Festival 2017: Press Release
The world is in a difficult place at the moment. From the domestic to the global, the personal to the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Second Coming by Simply Surreal
The Second Coming is a farcical, contemporary retelling of the Nativity story.
This debut performance of The Second Coming by Dougal Thomson is a thoroughly humorous and modern...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Agony and the Ivories
Bill Larkin (Comedy Central's "Premium Blend") stands behind his keyboard for an evening of original comedy songs. The Los Angeles Times calls him “bitingly satirical”. ...
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