The Definitive Guide to Comedy
⭐⭐⭐⭐ You can only imagine what the revelers outside the new Beside room must think if they hear some of the “horrible things” bleeding out through the walls into Pleasance Courtyard this August. Frankie Thompson has taken found footage to new heights, and depths, in this showcase where she lip-synchs …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Two summers ago, Demi Adejuyigbe came to Edinburgh promising one back-flip and left Fringe as a Best Newcomer nominee. What to do for an encore? Sell out, obviously! Whether satirically, sincerely, or both, Adejuyigbe desperately wanted to return to the Edinburgh Fringe, and even more desperately didn’t want to …
⭐⭐⭐⭐½ In her biggest, most ambitious show yet, Olga Koch time travels. Figuratively. Koch uses the large stage at Pleasance Courtyard’s Forth to display dates, court citations, funny asides and mood lighting to tell her “one good story” that’s not really about her. It’s about her fateful encounter with a …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bron Lewis knows her demographic: teachers and moms. The Australian comedian has experience with both, having formerly taught high school and currently still raising three children (two daughters, 12 and 10; and a five-year-old son). Plus a new golden retriever, a not-so-new husband who’s been working from home since …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ “If you’re thinking, ‘Huh?!,’ then you are correct.” On the Greek temple at Delphi reads three maxims that come from the oracle: “Know thyself, Nothing in excess, Surety then ruin.” These popular proverbs hang on signs strung up behind Lara Ricote onstage, and she bounds back and forth among …
Dan Wilbur is a comedian and author of two humor books, “How Not To Read” and “Never Flirt with Puppy Killers.” He released his first stand-up comedy album, Husband Material, in 2023, has been featured on CollegeHumor, McSweeney’s and Someecards, where he also worked as the Ecards editor. Wilbur sat down with …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Harriet Richardson is a performance artist, not a stand-up comedian. And yet she found her life and art colliding with comedy after one performance piece of hers went viral, when she met up for more than 100 blind dates over Zoom on a single Valentine’s Day. The media attention …
⭐⭐⭐½ “Underneath these clothes I’m sexy I swear!” Sure, in the Pleasance bunkers this Fringe she may be dressing like a parkour boy, or “the Haim sister they keep locked up in the basement,” but you’ve seen Ele McKenzie in the limelight on the Northern Irish sitcom, Funboys, as the …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ How can a performer pull off a fast-paced high-energy character showcase with a broken arm? Let Jonathan Oldfield show you how, in a fun hour that includes some clever bits of interactivity that allow him to also show you his improv chops. The improv comes through his adaptation of …
⭐⭐⭐½ For having a decade in the trenches of stand-up comedy, Bella Hull is still only in her 20s, and yet already is enjoying great success. She’s a writer for SNL UK and in the past year has appeared on both Have I Got News For You as well as …
