Tag: comedy

Four chairs. Three weeks. Two bickering writers. One award-winning original musical.Follow the challenges and triumphs of four nobodies in New York on their hilarious quest for Broadway, acceptance and a spot on Ellen DeGeneres’...

 Fur Elise, described as ‘un tragicomédie de mime’ is forgivably romantic, drenched in French piano sonata sensuality, and an utter delight. York DramaSoc’s engaging Parisian set mime with printed word and sound effects tells...

One of Britain’s most celebrated impressionists (The Big Impression, Live at the Apollo, Tonight at the Palladium) returns to Edinburgh for a 12th year, with an hour of unfeasibly accurate impersonations. Alistair McGowan will cover some of the biggest names...

The winners of Best New Sketch Act 2015 return with their highly anticipated new show. Expect their trademark easy charm and fast-paced humour, now layered with a multimedia barrage of the senses which feels...

Gilded Balloon presents Night at the Museum Join the greats of comedy from across the globe as they strive to blur the lines between arteFACT and arteFICTION in a wholly improvised set, prompted by the historical artefacts housed in the...

One of Ireland’s top comedians is back in Edinburgh.  After a couple of years away, Neil returns with show packed with more hilarious tall tales. Includes tips on how to survive a bobsled ride and how to pretend...

Gilded Balloon Presents Nath Valvo: Happy Idiot With sold out shows across Australia and at Soho Theatre, five star reviews and countless laughs – the Happy Idiot is set to make his Edinburgh Fringe debut! From his dysfunctional family to '90s suburbia,...

It is very hot in Studio 5 of C venues: C Nova. 'Anyone who falls asleep, I forgive them...this is going to turn into a mass striptease in 5 minutes'. Well luckily it doesn't, as Lynn...

Justin Moorhouse will be in both Glasgow and Edinburgh this weekend doing what he does best -no-frills big-hearted stand-up comedy.  Audiences of Gilded Balloon Comedy at Drygate (Friday 6 March) and in Edinburgh Gilded Balloon...

Where can you see a 1927 silent film about Zulu culture, a documentary about the Rwandan genocide and a thriller set in Guinea-Bissau? At the 2014 Scotland African Film Festival is where! Looking Back, Reaching...

Dan Clark: Me, My Selfie and I, Pleasance Dome 8:20pm, until 24 August, £12.50 (£11.50 concessions)Best known as the creator and star of the BBC's How Not To Live Your Life (a hilarious sitcom...

Frank Skinner: Man in a Suit, Assembly George Square, until 24 August, See venue for ticket availability and pricingTo be frank, Skinner is a winner with his first full-length Fringe outing in 7 years....

Hedluv and Passman: Doin' it Dreckly, Gilded Balloon 10:30pm, until 25 Aug, £11/10 (£9/8 concessions)"In Cornwall they regard themselves as modern day folk heroes. But the moment they cross the border they become... a...

The conceit of this midday free-Fringe show was a fusion of both scripted and improvised sketches, lap-top Rap-lab experimentation and geek heaven brain-pan fried gookiness. The show's title punningly playing on 'off the cuff'...

It is  a PHB Free Fringe full house at this comedy by the seat of its pants box-room venue. And they were still squeezing in them in at the off.This Nick Hall in Michael...

FunBags a Go-Go!, St John’s (9 Victoria Street) 3:45pm, until 23 Aug (except 13, 20), FreeIf it's a very likeable sketch comedy trio you're after then 'FunBags' are 'a go-go' in Space 2 at...

In Cahoots: Some Like It Hoots, St John's (9 Victoria Street) 6:15pm, until 25 Aug, FreeWell then. It's back. During my debut Fringe last year there were two or three acts that really stood out, including...

If Edinburgh's got a castle, it must be a good hunting ground for princes - or at least that's what Fanny and Annie think.Fed up with Cinderella getting her man AND the best shoes,...

If you are travelling through Edinburgh Airport on Monday you might be forgiven for thinking you are already at the Fringe. BattleActs will be there to introduce passengers arriving on domestic flights in the morning...

 Cinderella had a terrible life, right?  And her ugly sisters were to blame - of course!  But have you ever looked at this from the siblings' point of view?In 2011, The Uglies Do Edinburgh,...

Authors sometimes say that their characters 'take over' - by which they mean that the story moves in directions they hadn't anticipated when they began to write.  But what if a novelist's creation really...

In his new comedy show ‘Robin Ince is In (and out of) His Mind’, Ince explains that the human mind is one of the most complex organisms in the Universe. This week’s sell-out show...

If you enter this competition you could find yourself on a stage at the Edinburgh Fringe entertaining the crowds.Fosters “So You Think You’re Funny?” applications will open at 12noon today. If you are aged...

A famous Scottish comedian is taking to the stage at Edinburgh College soon to promote Scottish Mental Health Week. Gary Little,  is originally from Glasgow but now performs comedy gigs all over the world, and...

On his third Fringe and on the back of  tours supporting heavy-hitters Justin Moorhouse and Alun Cochrane, Mike Newall brings a laid back Northern charm to the Fringe but his laughs come from angst...

The trouble with magic shows is the whole 'it's bad form to write about what happens in case you ruin the surprise' thing.  It's quite hard to review stuff without saying anything about it. ...

We’ve overheard more than one* Cowgate conversation this festival about people’s lists of 30 things to do before they turn 30 (basically a bucket list condensed into a smaller amount of time).  Coincidentally, stand-up...

David Morgan is not performing at the Underbelly in the Cowgate, nor is he in the big upside down cow.  To find him, you want to go round the corner from Bristo Square in...

If you want to get away from stuffy basements this Fringe, you could do worse than visiting sketch comic Catriona Knox in an air-conditioned attic in the Pleasance.You may recognise Knox as one third...

Book of Mormon: New Musical from the Creators of South Park to Come to the UK One of the top 5 best-selling shows on Broadway, the Book of Mormon is now bringing its shockingly hilarious...