The Definitive Guide to Comedy
**** (out of 5) The global hit Amazon Prime series, LOL: Last One Laughing, may have started with an initial comedy competition series set in Japan, but it feels tailor-made for Sam Simmons. Simmons competed in the lone Australian season in 2020, ready with all sorts of over-the-top gags to …
Congrats to this year’s winners of the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards, announced over the weekend at the tail end of the monthlong Edinburgh Fringe! 2015 Best Comedy Show award: Sam Simmons: Spaghetti for Breakfast 2015 Best Newcomer award: Sofie Hagen: Bubblewrap 2015 Panel Prize: Karen Koren Simmons, whose cheeky brand …
With only a few days left in the scrum of August which is the Edinburgh Fringe, the panel for the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards for 2015 have announced their nominees for this year’s Best Show and Best Newcomer at the Fringe. And they are… Best Show 2015 Nominees James Acaster: …
The shortlist of nominees for Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards from this 2014 EdFringe are out, and among the Brits and Aussies is one young Yank — 25-year-old American Alex Edelman, with his first EdFringe show, “Millennial.” Edelman started performing stand-up and soaking up the scene in Boston while still in …
Sam Simmons put on one of the more gleeful and dizzyingly giddy one-man shows I’ve seen at Montreal’s Just For Laughs. Naturally, Simmons also is one of those Australian comedians who made a name for himself in the U.K. before putting himself before American audiences now. Then again, nature abhors …
The scene at Montreal’s Just For Laughs can seem a bit overwhelming, whether it’s your first trip to the comedy festival or you’re a native who has lived through three decades of hahaha dot comedy. Your attention naturally may be drawn to the Galas, the biggest-venue, biggest-staged events with the …
