The show takes place in an imaginary cinema, but this is no nostalgic Cinema Paradiso. Cinemadrome is a seedy, down-at-heel national chain, where dedicated employee Cabbage is ordered from concessions ...

For his official Fringe debut, after two years of 45-minute runs, Thor Stenhaug has gone for a straight-down-the-line ‘this is me’ introductory show, addressing his name, his Norwegianness, and his ...

Alerted to his ancestral link to the 17th Century Pendle Witch Trials, the comic has embraced his magical heritage in an effort to process his late-stage ADHD diagnosis, satirising his hyperfocus as a ...

Speed Queen is set in the last launderette on the Isle of Wight – though it may as well be Royston Vasey. For the world Ozzy Algar has so completely built shares the same sense of isolation and unease ...

In Watch This When You Get Home, the mild-mannered stand-up describes himself as ‘yearny’ not ‘horny’, revelling in the romanticised idea of himself as a man with an unfulfilled longing for a crush, ...

Here’s musical comedian Bennet Kavanagh talking about his day job as a composer of lift music. It comes from his Edinburgh Fringe show, Crank Up The Volume!! (To A Reasonable Volume), which is on at ...

We are greeted by the first of a number of mob bosses – mob bosses who will prove largely interchangeable – as CrimeLandTown is a riff on Sinatra-era gangster tropes, with all the lounge singers and ...

Channel 4 has released the first sketch from Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping. The sketch features Robert Webb and Stevie Martin as airport security guards issuing confusing instructions to ...

I was profoundly hungover at the time, and it was reasonably early in the day, so my memory of the content of the show is hazy. There were few of us in the room - I was there, at least two friends, a ...

On the final day of the Fringe, I always walk up the ultimate Edinburgh hill: Arthur’s Seat. With the city shrinking below me, the reviews, stars, and audience numbers that have ruled my life for the ...

The literal biggest award in comedy is back - and bigger than ever. The giant inflatable trophy handed out by stand-up streaming service NextUp at the Edinburgh Fringe is this year 2.03m tall, a whole ...

Here’s Jessie Nixon performing an extract from her debut Edinburgh Fringe show Don't Make Me Regret This. The Bristolian comedian – one of the five Chortle Hotshots tipped for good things this ...