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Comedy Reviews

Edinburgh Fringe 2024: Edinburgh Comedy Awards winners

Veronica Lee

Amy Gledhill won the Don and Eleanor Taffner Best Comedy Show, the main award at the 2024 Edinburgh Comedy Awards for Make Me Look Fit on the Poster. The show has variously been described as “bawdy comedy delivered with a blush”, “a funny woman rightly confident of her comedy talents” and “a brilliant physical comedian”.

Accepting her award, Gledhill said: “This is insane. I saw the other people on this list and I thought, 'I don't have to write a script!'”

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Grace Mulvey / John Tothill

Veronica Lee

Grace Mulvey, Assembly Roxy 

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Sheeps / Mhairi Black

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Sheeps, Pleasance Courtyard 

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Stevie Martin / Colin Hoult

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Stevie Martin, Monkey Barrel  

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Chris Grace / Ania Magliano / Elvis McGonagall

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Chris Grace, Assembly George Square  

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Emma Sidi Is Sue Gray / Sam Lake

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Emma Sidi Is Sue Gray Pleasance Courtyard 

I have no idea what Sue Gray - the former senior civil servant who is now The Prime Minister’s right-hand woman - sounds like, but I’m guessing not someone who has stepped straight out of The Only Way Is Essex.

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Eric Rushton / Mark Thomas

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Eric Rushton, Monkey Barrel @ The Hive 

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Anna Akana / Elliot Steel / Rosco McClelland

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Anna Akana, Pleasance Courtyard

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024 reviews: Jin Hao Li / Sian Davies

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Jin Hao Li Pleasance Courtyard 

Jin Hao Li was born in China, raised in Singapore and studied English at a Scottish university. So it’s perhaps not surprising that, in drawing on so many cultural sources, his brand of comedy should be so singular.

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Rahul Subramanian, Soho Theatre review - rush-hour traffic and upsetting DJs

Veronica Lee

Rahul Subramanian is a well-established comic in his native Mumbai, as evidenced by the appreciative audience of Indian expats gathered at Soho Theatre. His sellout dates in London acted as previews to his debut run at the Edinburgh Fringe, which starts on 2 August.

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