The Definitive Guide to Comedy
⭐⭐⭐⭐ For a show built around the love letters of his deceased parents, Milo Edwards opens his latest hour with quite the shocker having nothing to do with them but everything to do with the way we’re warped by modern communication. All Edwards has to do is to remind us …
⭐⭐⭐½ Celya AB’s therapy sessions prompted her to ask if she should quit comedy. Which must sound radically surprising to anyone already following this French Algerian comedian, a Fringe fave and writer for SNL UK. And yet, she has listed the pros and cons of continuing to craft jokes for …
⭐⭐⭐½ Finlay Christie was only 20 when he won the So You Think You’re Funny title in 2019, and he’s already parlayed that into more success on both social media and the telly. It makes for a rowdy show in real life, with Christie now 27, wondering what it must …
⭐⭐⭐½ Yvette Segan is a 20-something with a growing audience as an American stand-up comedian and podcaster, with close to half a million Instagram followers. For her Fringe debut, she wanted the UK audiences to know that she’s just like them. She has a loving relationship with her parents, even …
How do you not only survive, but learn how to thrive in the shadow of celebrity? Michelle Cohn poses that question by putting herself in the frame of mind of Helena Hadid, the seemingly normal but completely fictitious sister to supermodels and daughter to a Real Housewife. Helena has her …
⭐⭐⭐⭐½ Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland have done it again. Their fourth Fringe production has earned them a fourth Fringe First award from The Scotsman. They can write and tell jokes great and dumb alike. They can clown it up. But this show has less of that, more focused on …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Elouise Eftos is sexy, smart, and funny. “Turns out guys don’t like that.” Fringe audiences and judges do, however, making her a Best Newcomer nominee last year, and “Australia’s First Attractive Comedian” has returned to remind us how we should worship her like a goddess, even if this second-generation …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ For comedian and actor Chris Grace, racism is worse when it’s hack. Grace used this to his comedic advantage in his 2023 Fringe show, Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson, which he adapted into a Dropout special. This time around, it’s not the casting of white movie stars as Asian …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Paddy Young is an undeniable star now. “I used to dream of playing rooms like this,” he says during one late-night set this month at Pleasance Grand. And yet he still has to deal with rejection, whether it’s the couple who got up to leave 15 minutes into his …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fears are funny (weird) in how they can encompass both sides of an issue or outcome. For example, comedian Sarah Roberts says she has a fear of being alone, and yet she also fears people. In her case, Roberts kind of brought that upon herself in the womb. I’ll …
