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15 Feb 2013
Immaculately styled French period romcom starring Déborah Francois and Romain Duris
This immaculately styled French period romantic comedy signals its pedigree with a colourful cartoon credit sequence reminiscent of cute and kookie Hollywood comedies circa the 1950s and 60s. And in fact, co-writer and director Régis Roinsard’s feature…
Run for Your Wife
11 Feb 2013
Hopelessly dated and poorly executed comedy starring Danny Dyer
This comprehensively cack-handed adaptation of the long-running West End stage sex comedy will have all but the most thick of skin and dim of humour running from the cinema as though their very lives depended up on it. Co-director and screenwriter Ray…
Phil Nichol Rants!
22 Aug 2012
Mercurial Canadian comedian rages, blusters, fumes and seethes
The hard-working, hyperactive Fringe veteran, who’s also appearing in his Comedians Theatre Company production of the play The Intervention, can hardly contain everything he wants to say within this single hour of stand-up. And he doesn’t. Before the…
Anne Edmonds in My Banjo’s Name is Steven
21 Aug 2012
Aussie musical stand-up built on good audience interaction
The unwaveringly energetic and unfailingly upbeat Aussie comedian clearly feels she’s a bit too full on for her lunchtime time lot. But, actually, her bright demeanour and likeable manner makes her well suited to the daylight hours. For her Fringe…
Laurence Clark: Inspired
21 Aug 2012
Stimulating comedy from comedian with cerebral palsy
When a fan tweeted Clark saying his show was ‘inspiring’, the comedian with cerebral palsy found the comment so condescending he was inspired to write a new one about what is truly inspirational and what is bollocks. During the course of the show, Clark…
Danielle Ward: Speakeasy/Playdead
21 Aug 2012
Wobbly but winning stand-up
One of the two shows the English comedian is performing on alternate nights is billed as Speakeasy. Accordingly, as the audience take their seats, Ward, who’s dressed in an all-in-one trouser suit with a stylish retro print, pours cocktails for those…
Guardian Reader
20 Aug 2012
Liberal leftie humour from William Hammer-Lloyd
The anonymous reader is a tall, lanky, floppy-haired, bearded, liberal, leftie, upper-middle class intellectual and former teacher. In other words, he’s the archetypal reader of the newspaper affectionately known as The Grauniad. Having become all too…
Alexis Dubus: Cars & Girls
19 Aug 2012
Too much of a good thing
This exuberant English comedian is too clever for his own good. Alexis Dubus’ new show draws upon some seriously crazy travel adventures he’s undertaken, including a trip to – and at – the psychedelic Burning Man Festival in the American desert. What…
The Chris and Paul Show
13 Aug 2012
Almost (great) silent comedy
This north American comedy duo have got two very good things going for them: they’re pretty adept at performing silent comedy and they’re reminiscent of that great post-war double act Abbot and Costello. But they really need to tighten up their act. For…
Marek Larwood: Typecast
13 Aug 2012
Pleasing pratfalls from former We Are Klangster
The former We Are Klangster’s solo show is manic and messy. However, Larwood holds it together, and generates considerable laughter, chiefly by dint of his unenviable – and sort of charming - ability to make himself look like a complete pratt while at…
The Freewheelin' Cariad Lloyd
11 Aug 2012
A shaky start gives way to a turbo-charged character comedy show
Last year’s Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee returns with that ‘difficult second show’ (her words) which, as it turns out, gets off to a wobbly start but ends with the kind of big bang that that leaves one wanting to see a lot more of this…
Shappi Khorsandi: Dirty Looks and Hopscotch
11 Aug 2012
Consummate if conventional comedy from the Iranian comic
From the outset, the Iranian comedian has the crowd in the palm of her hand. Shappi Khorsandi is confident and charming and cute, and she seems to know just how far to push the lewd jokes. And the large audience that’s largely made up of an elderly…
WitTank
11 Aug 2012
Disappointing show from the recently televised comedy trio
The comedy troupe of three return to the Fringe after a bout at the Beeb with more of their quick and quicker-fire sketch show fare. Occupying the ground between enthusiastic amateurs and reliable professionals, WitTank tick all the boxes with a show…
Tea with the Old Queen
9 Aug 2012
Highly entertaining high-camp treat
Writer-performer Graham Woolnough’s one-man show provides us with a delightfully indiscreet behind-the-scenes look at the lives of Britain’s royal family, as told through the fictional diaries of the Queen Mother’s bitchy old queen of a butler…
Big Sean, Mikey and Me
8 Aug 2012
Edinburgh boy's three persona act is blackly comic and heartfelt
An autobiographical, confessional one-man show written and performed by young(ish) Edinburgh-born actor Ruaraidh Murray, who appeared in the stage revival of Trainspotting (to which text Murray’s show shares some similarities). Taking stock of his life…
Mae Martin: Mae Day
7 Aug 2012
Charmingly neurotic show from the multi-talented Candian
She’s good-looking in a gamine kind of way, dresses stylishly in old-school punk fashion, has got strong voice for singing songs, can play the guitar and seems pretty relaxed standing in front of a crowd chatting into the mic. So it comes as a surprise…
Claudia O’Doherty: The Telescope
7 Aug 2012
Carefully orchestrated chaos from the frantic Aussie comic
This frenetic Aussie comedian’s borderline hysterical show begins with O’Doherty telling all about her indoctrination into a cult-like comedy school called The Nuthouse, where she was brainwashed into becoming a stand-up. Next, we’re told she has had…
Thom Tuck Flips Out
6 Aug 2012
Posh boy stand-up from the ex-Penny Dreadful
Having graduated from sketch show The Penny Dreadfuls to a solo stand-up routine revolving around his love-hate relationship with straight-to-DVD Disney movies, Tuck returns to the Fringe with a new show that’s less focused thematically but generally…
Jessica Fostekew: Brave New Word
5 Aug 2012
Funny and fascinating exploration of words
Generally speaking, sitting in front of a stand-up comedian for an hour is an educational experience (even if the only thing you learn is that you want to be somewhere else). Happily, sharing 60 minutes with Jessica Fostekew is a learning curve in the…
George Ryegold's God-in-a-Bag
5 Aug 2012
Toby Williams' comic character creation scrapes close to the bone
If God-In-A-Bag was on TV, it would be a fairly conventional sitcom, but on stage it becomes something altogether more entertaining. That’s partly down to a script which is punctuated with the kind of risqué jokes – a blow-by-blow review of a porn film…
Pat Burtscher’s Patopotamoose
3 Aug 2012
Slapdash, very funny routine from Canadian comic
A Patopotamoose is, by another name, a McGuffin. In this instance, it’s a nonsense title this whacked-out young Canadian comic gave his show before he’d written it in order to secure a spot on the Fringe. So Burtscher tells us. But did he write a show…
Stephen Carlin: Pandas vs Penguins
3 Aug 2012
Impish Scottish comic talks animals
Stephen Carlin has a theory that humanity can be neatly divided into two types: those who exhibit the social and psychological characteristics of Chinese bears, and those whose behaviour mirrors the Antarctic bird. That the Scottish stand-up disproves…
Revisiting: The Apartment
13 Jun 2012
Comic charm and caustic humour ensure Billy Wilder’s Oscar-winning film is as appealing as ever
When it was first released back in 1960, The Apartment was a commercial and critical success, securing 10 Oscar nominations and five wins, among them Best Director and Screenplay for its director Billy Wilder and his co-writer IAL Diamond. Four decades…
Joost Swarte: Is That All There Is?
3 Feb 2012
Compendium of the Dutch cartoonist’s satirical alternative comics
Apparently so. Or almost so. Is That All There Is? collects virtually all of the Dutch cartoonist’s alternative comics from way back in 1972 to the present day, translates them into English and assembles them, under Swarte’s own supervision, in this…
Danny Pensive’s Map of Britain
15 Aug 2011
Wonderfully odd character comedy
This character comedy is so assured, odd and sweet, that you can easily see the self-styled Sunderland simpleton becoming the next score keeper on Shooting Stars. During his whistle-stop recollection of a three-year trip around Britain, Pensive…
