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Comedy

6 August 2024

  • Jordan Brookes: Fontanelle

    Jordan Brookes: Fontanelle review – heady mix of uneasy laughs, sexual candour and Titanic spoof

    A show about unresolved masculinity combines elements of musical theatre with the experimental comic’s own ruminations on ego and oblivion
  • Man makes shocked face on stage while holding microphone

    Joe Rogan’s Netflix special is another tired, and unfunny, tirade

    Jesse Hassenger
    The streamer’s latest remarkably laugh-free comedy special is another procession of eye-rolling jokes about cancel culture and LGBTQ+ people

    • VL review – electrifying comedy about teenagers’ race to lose ‘virgin lips’

    • ‘This isn’t going to be sensible!’ Olaf Falafel, Edinburgh fringe’s king of one-liners

    • Chris Thorburn: Cineman review – heard the one about Sex Times at Spring Break High?

5 August 2024

  • Katie Norris: Farm Fatale.

    Katie Norris: Farm Fatale review – this cat-lady comedy becomes a moggy melodrama

  • Susie McCabe performing during the Teenage Cancer Trust comedy night, at the Royal Albert Hall in 2019

    Susie McCabe begins Edinburgh run less than two weeks after heart attack

  • Deadpan … l to r, Jessica Whitehurst as Roxanne and Virginia Gay as Cyrano.

    Cyrano review – Virginia Gay has a nose for romance in gender-swap update

  • Less lovable? … Together 99.

    Together 99 review – quarter-century renuion for Lukas Moodysson’s Swedish commune comedy

  • Emma Sidi Is Sue Gray review – bureaucratic blabbermouth’s lurid disclosures

  • Hannah Gadsby: ‘The Edinburgh fringe might make your dreams come true – or it will give you scurvy’

  • Rachel Fairburn: Side Eye review – devilish, seven-headed humour

  • ‘My first play was terrible!’ Alan Ayckbourn on his dazzling career – and writing his 90th play

4 August 2024

  • Joe Kent-Walters Is Frankie Monroe: Live!!!

    Joe Kent-Walters Is Frankie Monroe: Live!!! review – one hell of a host

  • Temi Wilkey

    Main Character Energy review – boudoir cabaret deconstructs Temi Wilkey’s inner celeb

  • I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life

    I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life review – sharp-witted girlboss satire

  • Mhairi Black.

    Mhairi Black: Politics Isn’t For Me review – ex-youngest MP trades Commons for comedy therapy

3 August 2024

  • For G2 arts: Ben Elton, London. Photograph by David Levene 6/9/19

    This much I know
    Ben Elton: ‘I often felt a one-man cliché in the 80s’

    The comedian, 65, talks about Elton John, Cat Stevens, unrequited love and pious anti-sexist, anti-racist ranting
  • Frank Skinner in 2024

    Flashback
    Frank Skinner looks back: ‘I liked being famous – I felt noticed for the first time. But at some point it has to end’

    The comic on his nightmarish first gigs, how he finally became sober, and dying by his own sword
  • Mark Watson Edinburgh Fringe

    ‘It ends with me crying in a pink cycle helmet’: Edinburgh fringe comics pitch their own Baby Reindeer

    With every streaming service now searching for their version of the Netfix hit, Mark Watson, Lucy Porter, Celya AB and more pitch the TV show of their lives, from real-life origin stories and flights of fancy to, erm, Baby Reindeer
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