Comedy
'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages of love and supportFriday, 14 November 2025
We are bowled over! We knew that theartsdesk.com had plenty of supporters out there – we’ve always had a loyal readership of arts lovers and professionals alike – but the response to our appeal to help us relaunch and reboot has been something... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Eric Rushton / Bella HullThursday, 14 August 2025
Eric Rushton, Monkey Barrel ★★★★ Everything about Eric Rushton is lo-fi. His delivery, his movement about the stage, his interactions with the audience. Even the subject matter of this show – mental health, lost love – is low-key. Yet with... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Lily Blumkin / Shamik ChakrabartiTuesday, 12 August 2025
Lily Blumkin, Gilded Balloon @ Patter House ★★★ Lily Blumkin has always planned to be a big-time comic, she tells us. So when her parents downsized and asked her to clear out her childhood bedroom, she went through her stuff –... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Desiree Burch / Andy ParsonsMonday, 11 August 2025
Desiree Burch, Monkey Barrel ★★★★Desiree Burch is a bundle of energy as she comes on stage and gives us a warning about the subterranean venue she’s in. It’ll get hot, the Taskmaster favourite tells us – but maybe that’s just her as she going... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Lily Phillips / Ayoade BamgboyeSaturday, 09 August 2025
Lily Phillips, Monkey Barrel ★★★★Lily Phillips is keen to tell us at the top of her show that she’s not that Lily Phillips. There’s no OnlyFans content in Crying but, dealing as it does with her experience of having a baby, it’s graphic in a... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Jacob Nussey / Phil GreenFriday, 08 August 2025
Jacob Nussey, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ Write about what you know, comics are told, and in Primed – his Fringe debut – Jacob Nussey does just that. He describes to great comic effect what it was like in the three years he worked in an... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Rob Auton / Saaniya AbbasThursday, 07 August 2025
Rob Auton, Assembly Roxy ★★★★ The stage is littered with 30-odd large white cards bearing words such as “love”, “believe” and “push”. Rob Auton comes on stage and tells us he’s CAN, a former motivational speaker, and in the following... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Monstering the Rocketman by Henry Naylor / Alex BerrWednesday, 06 August 2025
Monstering the Rocketman by Henry Naylor, Pleasance Dome ★★★★Henry Naylor doesn’t hold back in his latest Fringe offering, an entertaining monologue in which he examines The Sun’s treatment of Elton John in the 1980s, an era when tabloids... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Alison Spittle / Christopher Macarthur-BoydTuesday, 05 August 2025
Alison Spittle, Monkey Barrel ★★★Alison Spittle is fat, she tells us at the top of the show. But not as fat as she used to be. And that’s the premise of BIG, in which she describes why she has been overweight since she was eight years... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Rhys Darby / Alex StringerMonday, 04 August 2025
Rhys Darby, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★Rhys Darby, the New Zealand actor and comic best known as Murray Hewitt in Flight of the Conchords, is back at the Fringe after nearly a decade away with The Legend Returns.It’s an elaborate tale about... Read more... |
Eddie Pepitone, Special review - return of the curmudgeonSaturday, 26 July 2025
There aren’t many comics like Eddie Pepitone any more – the veteran comic’s shtick harks to back an earlier age, pre-suitable for TV and Netflix specials. As the New Yorker says drily in his latest special, The Collapse, he was never going to be... Read more... |
Summer Laugh review - five comics gear up for the FringeMonday, 30 June 2025
Appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe has long been an expensive gig for comics. But while stand-ups may need only a microphone to ply their wares at the world’s biggest arts festival, the costs they have to bear – among them venue charges,... Read more... |
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