Pleasance, EdinburghMaddix is a fluent, playful comic, but the window opened here on his conflicted psyche feels unresolved " for him as much as his audience 'I needed to say it more than yo…
Assembly George Square, EdinburghThere are few bells and whistles in Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher's fringe debut, just two seasoned US comics in effortless harmony with each other Here's …
The baby-faced oddball has gone from performing to tiny audiences to winning live comedy's most coveted prize, the Edinburgh festival fringe comedy award What does an Edinburgh comedy award …
I've spent my whole professional life loving and writing about the fringe. But rocketing rents, a lack of diversity and its overwhelming scale are pushing this world-class cultural crucible …
Underbelly Bristo Square, Edinburgh The Dave's Edinburgh comedy awards best newcomer nominee carries a confidence and warmth that is hard to resist In a lesser controversy at this year's fri…
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghThe standup puts her working-class status front and centre in this compelling and cathartic journey through her Covid years Lauren Pattison had two ambitions f…
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghPugh shambles his diffident way into the spotlight with a stealthy, clever and heartwarming show Incompetent, negative, a follower not a leader: Josh Pugh is h…
Monkey Barrel, EdinburghThe Australian comic takes incongruity to uncommon lengths " and this year he's recalibrated his show towards warmth "My mind is a prison full of crazy ideas. And I t…
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghDean's great skill is to make the audience feel like intimate confidantes, but sometimes his impatience to get to the next laugh weakens the shtick It's a sign…
From Liz Kingsman's 'messy woman' send-up to Seann Walsh's memories of his off-screen Strictly kiss, the nine-strong shortlist is a triumph for diversity though not without glaring omissions…
They are the shock troops of comedy, pranksters who risk arrest and worse to ridicule the powerful. As two acclaimed practitioners " including the man who threw Nazi golfballs at Trump " hit…
Underbelly, EdinburghOutlandish physical antics and a spontaneous stage presence keep Wardeh's audience laughing as he clowns through a cast of oddball characters Clown is in vogue again, co…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghHoult hangs up the dress and luvvie cadences of his fringe-staple alter ego Anna Mann in a camp, silly yet surprisingly emotional show When a character comic bi…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWilson relives her tumultuous turn as a teenage talent show contestant armed with laughter and song, topped with a touching tribute to her plucky younger self '…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghOkatsuka's slightly incapable, slightly on-edge persona is a fun time, whose yarn about an intruder frames material on marriage, mental illness and migration It…
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghThe answer may seem obvious but the commanding comic's fringe debut eschews any clear structure with mixed results Back in 2020, Thanyia Moore was planning her…
The Mash House, EdinburghThe New Jersey comic mines his lineage for laughs in a pensive dispatch from cosa nostra America (or somewhere nearby) The "dead dad" show is a fringe comedy cliche.…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghMaturity has made the awkward standup more at ease with himself and lent heft and fruitful battle-scarring to his shtick It's a feature of standup that comedy w…
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghSherman's show, pitched between anti-comedy, performance art and body horror, leaves no doubt why she's also known as Sarah Squirm Delightfully weird, says the pre-p…
Assembly George Square, EdinburghPart observational, part autobiographical, The Real Hero in All This considers life from ever-surprising angles Sixteen years in Malaysia, 16 in the UK. Thi…
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghAdam has lots to say " about proposals, weddings, football and houseplants " and delivers it with puppyish pleasure There are worse qualities to bring to standup tha…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFrom jokes about men's waning dominance to a teary anecdote, this show runs through a range of emotions on a post-breakup journey Wanna feel weird? Try star-rat…
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghIn his debut fringe show OK Zoomer, the 22-year-old comic bounces between optimism and fatalism, delivering gags with a sly twinkle Gen Z'ers have every reason to fe…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Mischief Theatre regular delivers routines to fit the audience's requests before heading down a darker path in an uneven show "You can't please everyone," C…
The festival is in full swing with audiences crammed into comedy clubs. But is our global pandemic the elephant in the room? Comedian Sam Nicoresti starts his show with an elaborate sanitisi…