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Edinburgh Fringe 2024 review: Joe Kent-Walters

Veronica Lee Saturday, 24 August 2024

Joe Kent-Walters has been given the DLT Entertainment Best Newcomer Award in the 2024 Edinburgh Comedy Awards, and deservedly so, for Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe: LIVE!!!! The show is a blast.

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024: Edinburgh Comedy Awards winners

Veronica Lee Saturday, 24 August 2024

Amy Gledhill won the Don and Eleanor Taffner Best Comedy Show, the main award at the 2024 Edinburgh Comedy Awards for Make Me Look Fit on the Poster. The show has variously been described as “bawdy comedy delivered with a blush”, “a funny woman rightly confident of her comedy talents” and “a brilliant physical comedian”.

Accepting her award, Gledhill said: “This is insane. I saw the other people on this list and I thought, 'I don't have to write a script!'”

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Grace Mulvey / John Tothill

Veronica Lee Saturday, 17 August 2024

Grace Mulvey, Assembly Roxy ★★★

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Sheeps / Mhairi Black

Veronica Lee Wednesday, 14 August 2024

Sheeps, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Stevie Martin / Colin Hoult

Veronica Lee Tuesday, 13 August 2024

Stevie Martin, Monkey Barrel ★★★ 

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Chris Grace / Ania Magliano / Elvis McGonagall

Veronica Lee Saturday, 10 August 2024

Chris Grace, Assembly George Square ★★★★ 

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Emma Sidi Is Sue Gray / Sam Lake

Veronica Lee Thursday, 08 August 2024

Emma Sidi Is Sue Gray Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★

I have no idea what Sue Gray - the former senior civil servant who is now The Prime Minister’s right-hand woman - sounds like, but I’m guessing not someone who has stepped straight out of The Only Way Is Essex.

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Eric Rushton / Mark Thomas

Veronica Lee Wednesday, 07 August 2024

Eric Rushton, Monkey Barrel @ The Hive ★★★★

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Anna Akana / Elliot Steel / Rosco McClelland

Veronica Lee Tuesday, 06 August 2024

Anna Akana, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Jin Hao Li / Sian Davies

Veronica Lee Monday, 05 August 2024

Jin Hao Li Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★

Jin Hao Li was born in China, raised in Singapore and studied English at a Scottish university. So it’s perhaps not surprising that, in drawing on so many cultural sources, his brand of comedy should be so singular.

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