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Jarlath Regan

(3 stars)9 Aug 2007

Regan is utterly beguiling and likely to be among the most charming men you’ll meet. Self-deprecating, bewildered, and clever, he talks of hopeless government attempts to curb drinking in Ireland, his ineptitude in the workplace and with women, and a…

Jarred Christmas

(3 stars)9 Aug 2007

The Hero Show is a befitting title for Christmas’ latest venture as the Kiwi resembles something between Clark Kent and the Incredible Hulk. He throws himself into storytelling, gripping the audience’s attention with red-cheeked fury, though at times…

Jason Byrne

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

This beloved Irishman is one of the Fringe’s safest bets and here he gives us his take on relationships, where women are monstrous and men are idiots. There’s a drunken tramp who is actually his seven-year-old son and we hear of his clowning…

Jennifer McCartney

Jennifer McCartney

Creative writer isn’t looking back

9 Aug 2007

Jennifer McCartney’s debut is both a joyfully idyllic and strangely dystopian novel. Afloat tells the story of Bell, a student from Minnesota who works as a waitress at an elite resort on Mackinac Island where her initial happiness turns into confused…

Jess Weixler

Jess Weixler

9 Aug 2007

Jess Weixler is so all-American she looks like she’s jumped straight out of a photograph of high school cheerleaders. Her long blond hair and blue eyes make her the archetypal American beauty – just like all those Britney Spears wannabes lusted after by…

Jim Bowes

(3 stars)9 Aug 2007

Whether WMDs can be launched within 45 minutes may be debatable, but a far safer bet would be to spend that length of time in the company of Bowes. An affable and enthusiastic host, he guides us along the journey from polite to increasingly assertive…

John Bishop

(2 stars)9 Aug 2007

Six months ago, sparkly-toothed Scouser Bishop was a marketing man in a pinstripe suit. But bored of the humdrum routine, and keen to make his kids proud, he bravely jacked it in to go pro as a stand-up. His open heart story of marriage breakdown…

John Richardson

John Richardson

Delightful surreal obsessive material

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

BBC6 radio host Jon Richardson is clearly at home behind a microphone. Charming and self-effacing, he moves through a show that might have been subtitled OCD, Or How Other People Drive Me Insane, segueing effortlessly between the different elements of…

John Waters: This Filthy World

John Waters: This Filthy World

(Jeff Garlin, US, 2006) 86min

(3 stars)9 Aug 2007

The ‘Ayatollah of Crud’ speaks. Time was when John Waters used to stand for something. Alienation from the mainstream perhaps, a gothic outsiderness, suburban depravity. But now, with money coming in from the ludicrously successful stage (and screen…

Josie Long

Josie Long

9 Aug 2007

A week in, The List’s columnist is having a fabulous Fringe, despite witnessing brutal scenes of child cruelty at the local swimming baths

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