Edinburgh Fringe Comedy
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Tom Shillue
First published in Broadway Baby - Saturday, July 26th, 2014One of the best comedy storytellers in the US, Tom Shillue has put together a new show, Impossible especially for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Surprised that Tom had never played in the UK, Daniel Kitson recommended him… “It’s called Impossible because you won’t believe the stories I tell in this show! They will blow minds […]
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Carl Hutchinson
First published in Broadway Baby - Saturday, July 26th, 2014Geordie comic Carl Hutchinson is often described as an old man in a young man’s body, who possesses the uncanny ability to both irritate and be irritated in a charming and endearing manner. He returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August. “It’s an hour of stand-up comedy, it’s deliberately not themed or anything. It’s […]
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Des Clarke
First published in Broadway Baby - Saturday, July 26th, 2014Des Clarke is an award-winning comedian who first appeared at the Fringe as a teenager. Since then, he has travelled the world with his offbeat brand of humour and become a familiar face on radio and TV. His new Edinburgh Festival Fringe show is The Trouble with Being Des. “It’s the most autobiographical show I’ve […]
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Paul G Raymond
First published in Broadway Baby - Saturday, July 26th, 2014Paul G Raymond is one half of sketch duo, In Cahoots. Their debut show was a word of mouth hit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year. Now in 2014, Paul and his partner, Luke Manning are back In Cahoots: Some Like It Hoots. “It’s an hour of sketches, characters, honed buffoonery, and stylised set […]
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Jason Cook
First published in Broadway Baby - Saturday, July 26th, 2014Award-winning comedian, writer, creator and star of BBC2’s Hebburn and Radio 4’s Jason Cook’s School of Hard Knocks returns with a show about, well, being broken. Martin Walker catches up with the much admired comic, ahead of performing his latest Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. You created and co-wrote the semi-autobiographical BBC TV Sitcom Hebburn. Any […]
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Struan Logan
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014Initially Struan Logan was going perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as part of a two hander with John Sheppard. However, John had to drop out at the last minute because he was offered a job he couldn’t refuse. So what does Struan do? The show must go on! “Yes, my hour has become a […]
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Sean O’Dee
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014You’ve must have heard the one about the Irishman and the Scotsman walking into a bar? Duncan Fraser and Sean O’Dee will be a Scots and Irishman in a bar at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe… but this time it’s war. “It’s two hander with me from Ireland and Duncan from Scotland. He’s a young Glaswegian […]
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Simon Feilder
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014What is a Simon Feilder? Award-winning comedian? Sure. Kisswizard? Campingman? Fightsmith? Let’s find out. His debut solo Edinburgh Festival fringe show features jokes, jingles, a projector, video, sounds, online dating, urinals, fun-size confectionery and one joke about Freud. “It’s actually about a veteran cop in a dystopian, crime-ridden Detroit who is brutally murdered by a […]
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Sarah Kendall
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014She Came. She Saw. She Conquered the Newcastle and District Under-14s Touch Rugby Competition. In 1992, Sarah Kendall was forced to play Women’s Touch Rugby. And accidentally made history as one-tenth of the greatest under-14s team ever assembled. Sounds like an Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. “This show is a story about my life in 1992. […]
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Sarah Profit Ramsay
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014Prof’s Olympic Legacy is the true story of a middle aged, unfit, borderline alcoholic, female smoker in her forties being inspired by the Olympics to do her first triathlon despite not knowing how to swim or ride a bike very well. “Some people call this my mid-life crisis, I call it my Edinburgh show.” Why […]
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Sooz Kempner
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014Defying Gravity is Sooz Kempner’s brand new Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. Her biggest dream is to be in the musical Wicked but so far she’s only managed to get a season as a Christina Aguilera tribute act, a tour of the north with a Jack Russell and to singlehandedly cause her parents’ divorce – according […]
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Sid Singh
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014Hailing from the United States of America, Sid Singh arrives in the Scottish capital with a very busy schedule. New York’s rising star of comedy explains to Martin Walker why he’s performing two shows in two venues, this Edinburgh Festival Fringe. “My first show, Another American will be my debut hour long solo stand up […]
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Stuart Black
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014Described as a comic-philosopher, Stuart Black’s social commentary is truthful, intelligent and eloquent. His style and intelligence set him apart as truly original and independent voice in comedy. Martin Walker asks about his Edinburgh Festival Fringe offering, The Crossroads. “I’ve had a pretty unusual life so the anecdotes or all from real adventures. The theme […]
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Sully O’Sullivan
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014Place one immigrant in residency limbo for six years, make them take the Home Office’s Britishness test, send them on two UK national tours, say they can stay, then break up the country. Welcome to one man’s national identity crisis. Sully O’Sullivan’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe show is called Nationhood. “This show centres on three very […]
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Seda Yildiz
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014This Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Mawaan Rizwan and Seda Yildiz bring you 30 minutes each of stand-up and storytelling. We received a lovely email from Seda about the show, titled, Yes. “Hiya, ‘ello! “I am a born’n’bred East Londoner and I invite you into the warmth of my confessionary, ‘yes, but no, but yes, no, I […]
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Thomas Black and Paul McDougall
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014Thomas Black and really wanted to write an Edinburgh Festival Fringe show to help guide to Scots with the independence debate. Then it occurred to them that two Ill-informed Scottish comedians maybe weren’t the best guides. In other words they Ken HeeHaw. “Exactly! So instead we are going share our thoughts with the audience and […]
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Tiernan Douieb
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014What do you think about opinions? Tiernan Douieb isn’t sure, even though everyone else is keen to shout theirs. He’s starting to think it’s best not to have any at all. Which is of course, an opinion. So how would Tiernan sum up his latest Edinburgh Festival Fringe show? “An hour of me shouting ill […]
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Tom Deacon
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014Tom Deacon has been performing live stand-up for the last six years and has been the host of his own TV, radio and online shows on BBC2, BBC Radio 1 and YouTube football channel Copa90. Martin Walker asks Tom about his latest Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. “Where to start… Well, this is my forth Edinburgh […]
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Tom Neenan
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014When widower Leopold Clarke is sent to investigate sinister goings on at Lopham House he has no idea of the horrors that await him. Spines will be tingled and gooses bumped this Edinburgh Festival Fringe in this hilariously chilling, Edwardian ghost story from Tom Neenan. “It’s a one-man, multi-character ghost story set in 1910. Widower […]
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Stephen Bailey
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014Sharp and sassy, Stephen Bailey, from Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side, returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Neon Heart is a warm and funny solo show about finding the one, breaking up, handling it with dignity and getting back out there. Just like Katy Perry with a world tour, but on a budget. […]
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Ria Lina
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014Award-winning Ria Lina returns with to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe her third hour of eclectic comedy. Having decided to homeschool her kids, Ria took the opportunity to devise her own uniquely comedic curriculum. Come and enjoy an hour of didactic comedy and songs for grown-ups. “This year my show is called School of Riason, inspired […]
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Wendy Wason
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014Wendy Wason has seen the future and it ain’t pretty. The future of the NHS, that is. Her husband was a resident in a Los Angeles hospital. What most people fear, Wendy drank in. With her unique sense of fun and ability to laugh at the ridiculous, she reports back to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. […]
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Sean Turner
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014The Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Comedy with a Dyslexic Geordie, features Sean Turner, the Loaded magazine Search for a Star Finalist of 2013. He performs alternative comedy from surreal to observational. An energetic show with a brooding north-eastern mania. “I have a show with the Laughing Horse at the Jekyll and Hyde. It’s called Comedy […]
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Sarah Cassidy
First published in Broadway Baby - Thursday, July 24th, 2014Sarah Cassidy is originally from Plantation, Florida. She came to the UK in 2008 to escape the recession, but instead it followed her here, and now the country lies in ruins. Her Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, An Introduction to Twerking takes a close look at the popular ass of Miley Cyrus to see what we […]
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Rick Murtagh
First published in Broadway Baby - Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014This Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Rick Murtagh will tell you why misanthropy and nihilism are positive, realistic qualities and try and be nice about it. “The show is called A Rather Pleasant Misanthrope which I consider to be an accurate description of myself. It is essentially just me airing my frustrations and examining things I find […]
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