standup comedy
Nick Helm, Touring review - brash comic shows his vulnerable sideWednesday, 01 October 2025
Comedy is strange old thing; it’s supposed to be funny ha-ha, but the laughs can often come from a dark place, as evidenced by Nick Helm’s latest show (which I saw at the Arts Depot in London). His mental health has been a backdrop to previous show... Read more... |
Kerry Godliman, G-Live review - she's livid but delivers the laughsTuesday, 23 September 2025
Kerry Godliman is livid, she tells us. Spider webs catching in her hair, the state of the world, her teenage children; you name it, they – and much, much more – irritate her. But she’s hoping it’s a temporary state, as she puts her current maelstrom... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Cat Cohen / Lachlan Werner / KC ShornimaMonday, 18 August 2025
Cat Cohen, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★★In Broad Strokes Cat Cohen paints a fascinating picture of events leading up to the stroke that could have killed her. Thankfully three years on she is now fully recovered – and from near tragedy... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Emmanuel Sonubi / Joz NorrisSaturday, 16 August 2025
Emmanuel Sonubi, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★This show – Life After Near Death – is not about dying, it is about living, Emmanuel Sonubi tells us. Well, actually it’s about both, as in his case he nearly died of heart failure but,... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Eric Rushton / Bella HullThursday, 14 August 2025
Eric Rushton, Monkey Barrel ★★★★ Everything about Eric Rushton is lo-fi. His delivery, his movement about the stage, his interactions with the audience. Even the subject matter of this show – mental health, lost love – is low-key. Yet with... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Lily Blumkin / Shamik ChakrabartiTuesday, 12 August 2025
Lily Blumkin, Gilded Balloon @ Patter House ★★★ Lily Blumkin has always planned to be a big-time comic, she tells us. So when her parents downsized and asked her to clear out her childhood bedroom, she went through her stuff –... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Desiree Burch / Andy ParsonsMonday, 11 August 2025
Desiree Burch, Monkey Barrel ★★★★Desiree Burch is a bundle of energy as she comes on stage and gives us a warning about the subterranean venue she’s in. It’ll get hot, the Taskmaster favourite tells us – but maybe that’s just her as she going... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Lily Phillips / Ayoade BamgboyeSaturday, 09 August 2025
Lily Phillips, Monkey Barrel ★★★★Lily Phillips is keen to tell us at the top of her show that she’s not that Lily Phillips. There’s no OnlyFans content in Crying but, dealing as it does with her experience of having a baby, it’s graphic in a... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Jacob Nussey / Phil GreenFriday, 08 August 2025
Jacob Nussey, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ Write about what you know, comics are told, and in Primed – his Fringe debut – Jacob Nussey does just that. He describes to great comic effect what it was like in the three years he worked in an... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Rob Auton / Saaniya AbbasThursday, 07 August 2025
Rob Auton, Assembly Roxy ★★★★ The stage is littered with 30-odd large white cards bearing words such as “love”, “believe” and “push”. Rob Auton comes on stage and tells us he’s CAN, a former motivational speaker, and in the following... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Monstering the Rocketman by Henry Naylor / Alex BerrWednesday, 06 August 2025
Monstering the Rocketman by Henry Naylor, Pleasance Dome ★★★★Henry Naylor doesn’t hold back in his latest Fringe offering, an entertaining monologue in which he examines The Sun’s treatment of Elton John in the 1980s, an era when tabloids... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Alison Spittle / Christopher Macarthur-BoydTuesday, 05 August 2025
Alison Spittle, Monkey Barrel ★★★Alison Spittle is fat, she tells us at the top of the show. But not as fat as she used to be. And that’s the premise of BIG, in which she describes why she has been overweight since she was eight years... Read more... |
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