Soho theatre, London A brief but brazen set by the HBO series co-star shows a talent in full control of her own brand of scattershot comedy Emmy Award-nominated for playing a standup comedia…
Old Market, Brighton A thoroughly likable autobiographical show, comparing Suttie's domestic midlife and her past daredevilry, hits the comic jackpot with its songs When Isy Suttie was a gir…
Leicester Square theatre, LondonLess richly structured than his best work, this looser-limbed evening has given the comic wing-spreading room to experiment "Pure. Simple. Classic." That's th…
Soho theatre, LondonThe standup was planning an altogether sillier show, but life got in the way, resulting in a set that spins grief and loss into an uproarious hour Before Covid, and in co…
Soho theatre, LondonThe notorious comic and performance artist explores loneliness and the human/animal divide in an intricately assembled scrapbook show It's taken Kim Noble seven years to …
In Lullaby for Scavengers, the no-holds-barred performance artist returns to outfox and outrage audiences. He talks about trying to snog his mother, bathing with maggots and being an 'old wh…
New theatre, OxfordFrench heaps detail upon self-abasing detail as she shares hugely engaging stories from her 40-year career It's called semantic satiation, when you say a word so many time…
Shows like Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg exist to make politicians seem upright and substantial. ​Lycett rightly pointed out that some of them are not "Memo: don't put comedians on Que…
Assembly George Square, EdinburghThe Australian physical comedian conjures up a career for himself as a professional spear-thrower in this wacky if uneven show There is a distinguished, if n…
M&S Bank Arena, LiverpoolThey are arguably the two greatest US standups of their generation " and both topical for not always lovely reasons. Could this double-whammy possibly live up to…
Monkey Barrel, EdinburghSince her last show, about weightlifting, the 39-year-old has split from her son's father and moved in with a woman. Which adds up to hilarity for the audience if not…
Pleasance, EdinburghMaddix is a fluent, playful comic, but the window opened here on his conflicted psyche feels unresolved " for him as much as his audience 'I needed to say it more than yo…
Assembly George Square, EdinburghThere are few bells and whistles in Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher's fringe debut, just two seasoned US comics in effortless harmony with each other Here's …
The baby-faced oddball has gone from performing to tiny audiences to winning live comedy's most coveted prize, the Edinburgh festival fringe comedy award What does an Edinburgh comedy award …
I've spent my whole professional life loving and writing about the fringe. But rocketing rents, a lack of diversity and its overwhelming scale are pushing this world-class cultural crucible …
Underbelly Bristo Square, Edinburgh The Dave's Edinburgh comedy awards best newcomer nominee carries a confidence and warmth that is hard to resist In a lesser controversy at this year's fri…
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghThe standup puts her working-class status front and centre in this compelling and cathartic journey through her Covid years Lauren Pattison had two ambitions f…
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghPugh shambles his diffident way into the spotlight with a stealthy, clever and heartwarming show Incompetent, negative, a follower not a leader: Josh Pugh is h…
Monkey Barrel, EdinburghThe Australian comic takes incongruity to uncommon lengths " and this year he's recalibrated his show towards warmth "My mind is a prison full of crazy ideas. And I t…
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghDean's great skill is to make the audience feel like intimate confidantes, but sometimes his impatience to get to the next laugh weakens the shtick It's a sign…
From Liz Kingsman's 'messy woman' send-up to Seann Walsh's memories of his off-screen Strictly kiss, the nine-strong shortlist is a triumph for diversity though not without glaring omissions…
Samira Wiley makes her UK stage debut, there's an urgent counter to antisemitism, plus a fourth King James, refugee dancers and comedic returns Continue reading...
They are the shock troops of comedy, pranksters who risk arrest and worse to ridicule the powerful. As two acclaimed practitioners " including the man who threw Nazi golfballs at Trump " hit…
Underbelly, EdinburghOutlandish physical antics and a spontaneous stage presence keep Wardeh's audience laughing as he clowns through a cast of oddball characters Clown is in vogue again, co…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghHoult hangs up the dress and luvvie cadences of his fringe-staple alter ego Anna Mann in a camp, silly yet surprisingly emotional show When a character comic bi…