Laura Benanti: “Nobody Cares” at Edinburgh Fringe 2025
by ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ Laura Benanti is a long way from Broadway. But her audience can find her just fine at her first Edinburgh Fringe, where audiences might …
Author: Sean L. McCarthy
Editor and publisher since 2007, when he was named New York's Funniest Reporter. Former newspaper reporter at the New York Daily News, Boston Herald and smaller dailies and community papers across America. Loves comedy so much he founded this site.
Episode #475: Ismael Loutfi
Ismael Loutfi is a comedian and TV writer currently working on the animated series Mating Season from the makers of Big Mouth. His previous credits include …
Alice Cockayne: “Licensed. Professional. Trained. Qualified.” at Edinburgh Fringe 2025
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Some Fringe venues just feel built for late-night madcap humor. Pleasance Bunker Two is one of them, and while Alice Cockayne might specialize more …
Hal Cruttenden: “Can Dish It Out But Can’t Take It” at Edinburgh Fringe 2025
⭐⭐⭐½ The acts I tend to see playing the Cabaret Bar in Pleasance Courtyard each Fringe tend to be some of the most polished club …
Susan Harrison: “Should I Still Be Doing This?” at Edinburgh Fringe 2025
⭐⭐⭐½ It feels like an insult slotting a sprightly character comedian in a spare classroom named Pip in the daylight hours of Fringe. Almost as …
Tiff Stevenson: “Post-Coital” at Edinburgh Fringe 2025
⭐⭐⭐½ In her hot perimenopause summer phase, Tiff Stevenson understands she cannot control the weather or a piece of her own hair that wants to …
Adele Cliff: “Adele, Adele, Adele … Cliff It Isn’t The Consequences of My Own Actions” at Edinburgh Fringe 2025
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Adele’s mother has died since her last proper Fringe show, but not to worry. This won’t be one of those Fringe shows. While Adele …
Narin Oz: “Inner Child(ish)” at Edinburgh Fringe 2025
⭐⭐⭐½ If you’ve never witnessed a performer struggle with an empty room in the middle of the day and question all of their choices, then …
Dylan Adler: “Haus of Dy-Lan” at Edinburgh Fringe 2025
⭐⭐⭐½ One of those performances that feels like it’ll be an even stronger hour with packed houses (er, haus’s) by the end of August. After …
“Just the Two Of Us!” at Edinburgh Fringe 2025
⭐⭐⭐½ What happened to the double act? Doesn’t anyone want to be friends? Those are the questions double act Soft Play (Maria Telnikoff and Vidya Divakaran) ask …