Edinburgh Fringe Comedy
Print Interviews
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Juliette Burton
First published in Fringepig - Tuesday, July 10th, 2018I like reviewers. I used to be one. They’re doing their job. It’s a part of the beautiful patchwork of Fringe fun. When they say something complimentary, I’m overjoyed. When they don’t, I’m not.
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Robin Clyfan
First published in Fringepig - Tuesday, July 10th, 2018The Metro have described me as a ‘joy to watch’, my Dad however has only seen me perform once and all he said was ‘there’s still time Robin’.
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Sam Russell
First published in Fringepig - Tuesday, July 10th, 2018It’s all about perspective, if you think a reviewer is the be all and end all of your career, than your going to have some strong feelings. If you think its just someone’s opinion and they don’t speak with the voice of god, than is just like chatting with any audience member after the show.
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Tom Neenan
First published in Fringepig - Tuesday, July 10th, 2018My favourite review was from Doctor Who and Sherlock showrunner Steven Moffat who after seeing my show in 2015 said it was like I was doing a whole episode of Doctor Who on my own.
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Jim Campbell
First published in Fringepig - Tuesday, July 10th, 2018I’m not someone who’s anti-critic. There aren’t many people that review comedy full time and I think it’s vital that there are at least a few. Obviously they can’t see everything so the Fringe has a lot of inexperienced reviewers cutting their teeth, but I don’t know what the alternative is so good luck to them, unless they review me in a way I don’t like in which case fuck the cretins.
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EGG
First published in Fringepig - Tuesday, July 10th, 2018Our best review took the form of an audience member getting one of our punchlines tattooed on to himself. There’s no amount of stars that can beat that.
The worst was actually a good review that published the majority of our punchlines… not exactly helpful.
Chris Washington
First published in Fringepig - Tuesday, July 10th, 2018I don’t write shows to get brilliant reviews. I’ve write them to tell stories from my life and most importantly, make people laugh. If I had a pound for every time I’ve watched something and thought it was absolutely brilliant, but a reviewer has given it 2 or 3 stars, I’d have at least £18.
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Carl Donnelly
First published in Fringepig - Tuesday, July 10th, 2018I haven’t read a review of myself in maybe seven years and I don’t intend to start now.
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Brennan Reece
First published in Fringepig - Tuesday, July 10th, 2018After doing over 2000 gigs, I know when a gig has gone well and I am very aware when it hasn’t…so I don’t need someone to tell me. The reviews are there to help get a gage of what is good and what isn’t at the fringe, and it is just one person’s opinion.
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Robyn Perkins
First published in Fringepig - Sunday, July 8th, 2018I plan on reading my reviews. It’s a tough call. I think some critics can have great points. It is not to say I would change my set for a review – definitely not – but they can be helpful. Plus, I am too curious to not read them!
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Peter E Davidson
First published in Fringepig - Sunday, July 8th, 2018with any review I think if you’re going to be critical then context and constructive criticism is key. Don’t just slate or savage. A well-constructed review even if critical is hard to argue with. The other type is the equivalent of shouting ‘dickhead’ out the window of a passing car.
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Nick Elleray
First published in Fringepig - Sunday, July 8th, 2018Reviewers: please don’t quote complete fucking jokes in the review – you, of all people, should know that they rarely work outside of their natural environment.
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Edd Hedges
First published in Fringepig - Sunday, July 8th, 2018The best review was a couple who got free tickets to my show and found me after the show, pushed £20.00 in my hand and said “worth it”. The worst was a big newspaper who came in 15 minutes late sat in the front row. Half paid attention then gave me 3 stars.
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Dan Cardwell
First published in Fringepig - Sunday, July 8th, 2018On the whole, I think reviewers are good for comedy. Except for Three Weeks. They can fuck off.
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Abbie Murphy
First published in Fringepig - Sunday, July 8th, 2018As reviews stay up online forever more now. I think out of respect to the Act, their hard work and dedication getting a show to the fringe – they too should do their homework and there should be a minimum amount of shows and/or reviews they do before they are allowed to publish.
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Zach & Viggo
First published in Fringepig - Sunday, July 8th, 2018Every time we get a review we listen to it the same way – we highlight all of the text, use the text-to-speech feature on our laptop to read it out while playing the first result for ‘sad music’ on YouTube. It helps prevent us from taking reviews too seriously.
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Thinking Drinkers
First published in Fringepig - Sunday, July 8th, 2018Dan Ackroyd from Ghostbusters and Blues Brothers said this about the show: “For serious and not so serious devotees of legal recreational consumables, this show’s your bible”.
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Just Us League
First published in Fringepig - Sunday, July 8th, 2018If they’re interested in the Marvel Movies, they are more than welcome to come to our show. If they’re not interested in the Marvel movies, maybe DON’T COME TO REVIEW A SHOW ABOUT THE MARVEL MOVIES!!!!
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Stephen Carlin
First published in Fringepig - Sunday, July 8th, 2018In general I support the idea of everybody going about criticising everyone else all the time. It is very important. I can’t remember why? I think it is something to do with preventing the next Hitler.
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Steen Raskopoulos
First published in Fringepig - Sunday, July 8th, 2018I played Joseph in the year 2 nativity play. Let’s just say, it is still talked about… by me.
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Sisters
First published in Fringepig - Sunday, July 8th, 2018We got some really positive 4 star reviews for our debut hour with the Telegraph describing us as “A genuinely exciting new voice in sketch comedy” and The List saying we’d ‘given the double act genre a real shot in the arm’. “Trying to run before they’ve learned to walk” was probably the worst. Pretty savage cause Mark was in a wheelchair at the time.
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Sarah Keyworth
First published in Fringepig - Sunday, July 8th, 2018I recently got a lovely review from Chortle. It was very kind and complimentary. It made me feel good. I also recently got really mean review from Chortle, it was not nice. It made me feel bad.
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