Tag: comedy
Jason Manford and Phill Jupitus to host a Comedy Gala for Waverley Care
Jason Manford and Phill Jupitus will step aside from their roles in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to host a Comedy Gala in support of Waverley Care, Scotland’s HIV and Hepatitis C charity.
This one night event takes...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: Don’t Push The Button (The Techtonics) *****
Photo credit: Joe Martinez
I have a confession to make. I have seen Don’t Push the Button two and a half times. The first time I saw the show as a fellow SpaceUK performer curious...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: When You Improv On A Star (The Cambridge Impronauts)...
Last week I saw Colin Mochrie of Whose Line Is It Anyway fame improvise with four different members of the public who had been hypnotised. Mochrie, of whom I am a long-time fan, makes...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW – Deliciously Stella ***
Sold out and packed, Bella Younger took her character Deliciously Stella to the Pleasance Courtyard to give the punters a tongue-in-cheek lecture on Smug is a Lifestyle not a Diet, with what she hopes...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – [title of show]
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’...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: Für Elise****
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...
Avalon Promotions Ltd presents Alistair McGowan: 12th Impressions
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...
Gilded Balloon / Mid-Brow present Mid-Brow: The Live Show
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
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...
Gilded Balloon / Lisa Richards / Off The Kerb present Neil Delamere: Ctrl Alt...
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
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,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – Lynn Ruth Miller: Get A Grip ***
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...
Gilded Balloon Comedy in town this weekend
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...
Africa in Motion – Scotland African Film Festival 2014
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...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 – REVIEW – Dan Clark: Me, My Selfie and I...
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...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 – REVIEW – Frank Skinner: Man in a Suit ****.5
Frank Skinner: Man in a Suit, Assembly George Square, until 24 August, See venue for ticket availability and pricing
To be frank, Skinner is a winner with his first full-length Fringe outing in 7 years....
Edinburgh Festival Fringe INTERVIEW – Hedluv and Passman
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...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review – Off The Top *****
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'...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review – Nick Hall – Helmet ****
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...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 REVIEW – FunBags a Go-Go! ****
FunBags a Go-Go!, St John’s (9 Victoria Street) 3:45pm, until 23 Aug (except 13, 20), Free
If it's a very likeable sketch comedy trio you're after then 'FunBags' are 'a go-go' in Space 2 at...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 – REVIEW – In Cahoots: Some Like It Hoots *****
In Cahoots: Some Like It Hoots, St John's (9 Victoria Street) 6:15pm, until 25 Aug, Free
Well then. It's back. During my debut Fringe last year there were two or three acts that really stood out, including...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review – The Uglies *****
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,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – BattleActs
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...
Watch out! The Uglies are back!
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,...
The Next Big Thing at the Fringe: a musical comedy for all ages
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...
Edinburgh International Festival Fringe – Mind blowing comedy at The Stand
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...
Are you ready for So you Think you’re Funny?
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...
Scottish comedian to appear at Edinburgh College
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...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013 – REVIEW – Mike Newall – Six Weddings ***.5
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...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW – The Colour Ham ****
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. ...
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