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You’d do well to wager that no other show in this Edinburgh Fringe begins with an improvised wedding between an audience member hijacked from another show and a shock-headed character holding them...

THERE are any number of reasons why you might decide to try your luck with a stand-up act at the Edinburgh Fringe. Maybe you are hoping that you will be spotted and...

JUST for the avoidance of any doubt, soup does feature in Irish comedian Alison Spittle’s genial, rather sweet (if sometimes sweary) Fringe show. It’s just that there is so much else swirling...

Tell us about your show.    Why should we go and see it? During the pandemic in Singapore, I was asked by my government to teach public educational panels about love and sex....

Throwing himself about the room with no tell as to his recent back injury save the announcement at the top of the show, Jody Kamali invites all into his one-man – with...

Reclining on a stonework makeshift chaise lounge, Scott of musical-comedy-poetry duo Fever Peach is the very picture of aloofness as their audience shuffles in. The crown on his head and bare chest...

The stage is a cornucopia of literature. Swirls of books on cookery, philosophy, Moomintrolls and ancient enticing comics balance precariously on a couple of tables, further literary treasure detritus laying across the...

DARREN HARRIOTT isn’t fazed by the prospect of a full month on the Edinburgh Fringe – far from it. Many stand-ups would baulk at the idea of a lengthy run at the...

Likeable and laidback, Petts saunters onto stage taking ownership of her audience – and then, like an angry boss, proceeds to charmingly neg them - demographic by delighted demographic.  She’s an angry...