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Stewart Lee: A Room With a Stew - a tongue-in-cheek comic on top of his game
Review: “No one is equipped to review me,” Stewart Lee declares near the beginning of this work-in-progress show, referring to the mu …
Edinburgh festival 2015 comedy - heckling iPods, improv ballads and feminist rap
Review: Daniel Kitson doesn’t do comedy any more. At least, so the former Perrier award winner tells an audience member who fondly recalls …
Felicity Ward: ‘As soon as I mention the word anxiety, the audience go quiet’
Article: The Australian comic returns to the fringe with her candid new show about anxiety. She’s one of several performers to address menta …
Nina Conti: ‘I’m hoping people will sit in the front row if they’re feeling brave’
Article: Nina Conti has been appearing at the Edinburgh fringe since 2003. Her new show,In Your Face, takes her ventriloquist act in to n …
Edinburgh festival 2015 comedy - Lolly Adefope, Aisling Bea and Joseph Morpurgo among the highlights
Review: One of the great joys of the Edinburgh fringe is the yearly reminder of what a broad church contemporary comedy is, with every imaginable …
Edinburgh festival 2014: Paxo – quickfire sarcasm, passion and a natural comic touch
Review: Most performers at the fringe are bankrupting themselves to cram an audience into a small, sweaty room in the hope that some day it will …
White Rabbit, Red Rabbit: how it felt to perform Nassim Soleimanpour's theatrical experiment
Article: Ihave a recurring nightmare where I'm standing on stage in front of an audience and I realise I don't know the lines of whatever I'm supp …
Edinburgh 2014 comedy – what you have to do for a laugh these days
Review: The concept of Instrumental, Vikki Stone's new show (Underbelly), seems challenging enough to begin with: Stone, a classically t …
Edinburgh 2014 comedy – the funny thing about feminism
Review: "To be honest, I was hoping my feminist comedy show wouldn't be very successful so I could give up work and be supported by my husband," …
Edinburgh festival 2014 comedy – from a young Mary Berry to liberal smugness
Review: "Who'd have thought the Scots would be so good at sport?" one promoter muttered darkly on the first day of the fringe, referring to the f …