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Gordon Southern

(3 stars)16 Aug 2007

Perhaps you just had to be there for Southern’s journey from Brixton to Australia via Wales. Perhaps he had a tough crowd. But this set of lad laughs with slightly frightening musical accompaniment fell wide of the mark. The easy banter never fails him…

Dougie Dunlop

(3 stars)16 Aug 2007

Live from a ‘building site’, Dunlop’s debut is as gritty, opportunistic and incongruous as his venue. Reluctantly succumbing to themed comedy, he centres loosely on the elderly, with cake as both prop and post-spectacle sweetener. A deadpan, wry Scot…

Al Pitcher

(4 stars)16 Aug 2007

He’s been called unpredictable and divided audiences with his ad hoc ways, but happily for Pitcher, his celebration of saying precisely whatever pops into his head could earn the recognition he deserves. Never a dull moment, this walking, face-pulling…

Zoe Lyons

16 Aug 2007

With a canvas ‘wall of fear’ depicting the fears of her friends, Lyons strides through this call to courage with aplomb. Never short of a word and barely stopping for breath, she structures comedy vignettes around topics as diverse as lesbian weddings…

Johnny Miller Presents . . .

(1 star)16 Aug 2007

Johnny Miller presents what happens when dramatic intent collides unfunnily with comedy. ‘Smash hit double act’ Mike and Rich have thrown together a show comprising a baffling series of events involving sock puppets, fragments of Shakespeare and…

The Naked Comedy Showcase

(3 stars)16 Aug 2007

Andy Ofiesh, progenitor of this nude comedy xxxtravaganza, invites a brave bunch of comedians to be both funny and starkers, believing that the human body is beautiful in all its disparity. Rick Shapiro accessorised his with cowboy boots. Wak and Bam…

Dan Clark

(3 stars)16 Aug 2007

Clark unfangles himself, argues with his imagination and donates a few purposefully awkward silences in this neat yet unobtrusive little parcel. Raising more titters than belly laughs with his observations on life and Facebook, Clark might not brand…

Tommy Sheridan

Tommy Sheridan

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

Tommy Sheridan loses his Fringe virginity with all the vigour, shouting and charm one may have expected. On a stage set with a throne, Daily Record placards screaming all the headlines we wish we’d never seen (‘Four Times a Night Tommy Liked to Be…

Marcus Birdman

(3 stars)9 Aug 2007

Supporting his treatise that comedy should enjoy an unlimited target range, Birdman takes aim at everyone in general and no one in particular. His father, daughter, and religion all structure his musings, but he rails gaily en route, exhibiting easy…

Trippplicate

Trippplicate

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

Allow madcap ‘twins’ Kirsty and Miranda to guide you through the finer points of being a TimeLord. A barmy bonanza, our intrepid ‘superhumans’ zip through the timeosphere, with the help of stolen theme tunes, impressive Flashdance-worthy dance routines…

Vladmir McTavish

(4 stars)9 Aug 2007

McTavish packs his usual punch with this acerbic and energetic performance. A whistle-stop tour of Scotland’s history is delivered with the perfect balance of nit-picking, fun-poking satirical vim and pockmarked with trademark asides. For its…

Working Girls

(2 stars)9 Aug 2007

Three sloanes deprived of daddy’s benevolence have to procure jobs in this patchy sketch show. The format is fine, and is slickly executed with an eclectic choice of tunes accompanying each overly-frequent, pace-destroying fade-to-black. But it’s hard…

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