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Alun Cochrane: Jokes, Life and Jokes about Life. »

Alun Cochrane’s wonderfully engaging show 'Jokes, Life and Jokes about Life' graced The Stand last week to build upon a successful Edinburgh Fringe run. The premise is simple; Cochrane finds his most appealing gags in simple day-to-day interactio...

Wed 24 Nov 2010 by Emily Carson | Read more »

The Armstrong and Miller Show »

Despite the recent proliferation of TV comedy successes embarking on live tours, there is always a question of how Armstrong and Miller will translate on a stage as big as the Festival Theatre. Their answer is to use everything from audience participat...

Thu 11 Nov 2010 by Katie Chapman | Read more »

Mitch Benn and The Distractions »

It's an intimate setting in The Queen's Hall on South Clerk Street where Mitch Benn and his band The Distractions have come to perform. Benn's career has spanned over 15 years and includes the Glastonbury Best New Comedian award alongside stints on the...

Wed 10 Nov 2010 by Emily Carson | Read more »

Greg Davies: Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog »

For those only able to identify Greg Davies as "that bloke from The Inbetweeners", or perhaps "the really tall one who's sometimes on Mock the Week", the likely expectation for his solo show at The Stand tonight would be something along the lines of ca...

Wed 27 Oct 2010 by Hannah Clark | Read more »

Dara O'Briain »

The renowned Irish charm can get a man far, but fortunately for Dara O’Briain he there's no need to rely on such a quality, so brightly does his natural comedic talent shine through. He is by now a familiar face, a warming presence and a househol...

Wed 27 Oct 2010 by Hannah Clark | Read more »

The Edinburgh Revue »

The Edinburgh Revue starts off the new year with a mixed bag of stand up performances, with fresh faces sharing the stage with established talent. After a confident start from Oli Benton, first-year student Becky Price comes to the stage with an extre...

Thu 14 Oct 2010 by Yann Chalmers | Read more »

Robin Ince's Bad Book Club »

The Bad Book Club epitomises smart and sophisticated humor. In his show celebrating wonderfully predictable literature and poorly written prose, Robin Ince demonstrates a comedic style that is effective without resorting to crude stereotypes or shock t...

Wed 13 Oct 2010 by Katie Chapman | Read more »

The Stand: The Thursday Show »

Sex is on the brain at The Stand this Thursday with talk to rival anything in the Mills and Boon bibliography. The venue lends itself to great comedy, with an intimacy that creates both reaction and atmosphere, but this is repeatedly wasted tonight by ...

Thu 30 Sep 2010 by Hannah Clark | Read more »

Josie Long: Be Honourable! »

On arrival at Josie Long’s show Be Honourable!, the audience are given an endearing, hand-drawn programme detailing everything from the show’s playlist to accounts of Long’s attempts to talk to strangers. While this could have left th...

Wed 29 Sep 2010 by Katie Chapman | Read more »

Highlight Comedy »

Hard to say whether it's a general trend, but tonight's audience at The Highlight seems largely composed of various hen and stag parties seated together at large tables and ordering drinks by the bucket-load. Host Billy Kirkwood makes a brave stab at w...

Thu 16 Sep 2010 by Alexandra Wingate | Read more »

Fringe Comedy Round-up »

Hundreds of comedians took to various stages during this year’s Fringe Festival to prove their originality, innovation and hilarity to not only their audience, but also to scores of reviewers. A number of acts stood out. It was a good month for ...

Tue 14 Sep 2010 by Emily Carson | Read more »

Wicked Wenches »

Female stand-ups commonly fall prey to two great received wisdoms: the first is that they are naturally less funny than their male counterparts; the second is that all men subscribe to this line of thought. Neither is true, and yet both clichés ...

Tue 14 Sep 2010 by Marcus Kernohan | Read more »

Lucy Porter: Fool's Gold »

Now on her second stint touring Fool's Gold, her 2009 Fringe show, Lucy Porter is certainly at ease with her material. So at ease, in fact, that she has dispensed entirely with support acts in favour of a two-part show; in effect, warming up her audien...

Thu 13 May 2010 by Marcus Kernohan | Read more »

Russell Kane & Daniel Sloss »

The Pleasance Theatre has, in its long career as a performing-arts hub and Festival veteran venue, lent its stage to numerous grandees of British comedy. Tonight, however, it plays host to two young bucks of the circuit, as EUSA celebrate the completio...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Marcus Kernohan | Read more »

Robin Ince »

You can tell a great deal about a comedian from how they dispatch hecklers. Tonight’s host, the abrasive Bruce Devlin, favours the barrage-of-abuse technique for dealing with lairy audience members. Unfortunately, the Scottish comic’s entir...

Wed 03 Feb 2010 by Marcus Kernohan | Read more »

The big kids are alright »

“What I do is a tiny bit weird", claims cult audience-trailing David O' Doherty. "Not everyone’s going to be into it but then hopefully people who are into it, they tell their friends." Critics’ tongues have been wagging since O'Doher...

Wed 03 Feb 2010 by Rebecca Gordon | Read more »

The Improverts »

Edinburgh’s only resident improvised comedy troupe, The Improverts, have returned to the Bedlam Theatre following summertime escapades on the Fringe, which saw them play a show every night after midnight—even on Sundays. But while the name ...

Wed 25 Nov 2009 by Amy Taylor | Read more »

The Saturday Show »

Stand-up is as much about the venue as it is the personality. It’s about the potential for failure as well as the opportunity to shine. It’s about sitting as far away from the stage as possible to avoid getting picked on, and then getting...

Wed 07 Oct 2009 by Adam Knight | Read more »

Al Murray's Beautiful British Tour »

Now a respected veteran and major crowd-puller on the national comedy circuit, surely more is expected of Al Murray and his alter ego, the ‘Pub Landlord’ than undemanding low-brow humour that has consistenly comprised of anecdotes involving...

Mon 27 Apr 2009 by Dan Moss | Read more »

Sweet Jesus! »

With Valentine’s Day looming, the sickly stench of love permeates the air, while banal conceptions of ‘desire’ are rammed into our faces in every shop window and on every television channel. Unfortunately, these tired clichés s...

Sat 21 Feb 2009 by Anna Fenton | Read more »