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Includes Burlesque not listed somewhere above..
Voodoo Vaudeville
venue :: Assembly @ George Street
see links :: http://www.voodooo-vaudeville.com
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: Wed 08 Aug 2007
Comment: They say 'cabaret, chaos, comedy,
glamour, filth and art,' I say, 'wryly humorous, weird, sexy and recommended.'
Our sardonic Review will follow in due course...
Review :: You can tell this is going to be a zany, sexy show by the
big white rabbit that comes bounding off the stage and vanishes up
the aisle as two glamorous ladies... Click
here to read more
The Absinthe Monologues - Tax
Deductible Theatre Company
venue :: Zoo Southside
see links :: http://www.taxdeductible.co.uk/
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: 11 08 2007
Comment: Free Absinthe with this show, yum!
You will leave highly offended and with a sore head. If only the flyer
was more legible.
Review :: A fast paced, witty and amusing show in which La Fee Absinthe,
water and sugar are all freely dispensed to most of the audience. A
professional cast take you on a journey... Click
here to read more
Michael Jerrarde 'Gifted' -
Cameron Blair
venue :: The Green Room
see links :: http://www.michaeljerrarde.com
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: 11 07 2007
'Do you watch Most Haunted? Do you really believe that Derek Akhora
is really having a chat and a cup of tea with people who haven't passed
over? Well it's not just the dead that want to throw stones at him,
but if I was dead, I probably would make the effort to find a really
big rock. Michael Jerrarde though, isn't just a clairvoyant, psychic,
and mediums he's also a comedian. But can he really do it? Well, probably
not, as he's the comic creation of Cameron Blair. Michael Jerrarde
is a comic parody of all your favourite TV psychics and mediums. It's
an interesting enough idea, and there are some worthy laugh out loud
moments, but this show relies very heavily on audience participation
that ran out of steam in this hot room.' By Dee Custance
Andrew O'Neill - Futuristicelectodeathninja9000
venue :: Underbelly
see links :: http://www.andrewoneill.co.uk
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: 11th Aug 07
'Andrew O'Neill is a young fast-talking cockney death-metaller. In
spots of this new enjoyable show he gives us renditions of this croaky
shouting down the mic but also breaks out into jolly Londoner songs
and jigs while peppering the show with bullets of clever one-liners.
His strongest material though is the more conceptual idea of a personified
universe doing his first stand-up gig in a black sparkly jacket, and
informing us that we are all unreal, we don't exist and we are in fact
the product of the imagination of a child with a brain tumour who is
fastly approaching death. He's not afraid to touch the untouchable
subjects like the absurdity of Madeline McCann, terrorists, religion
or vegetarians that eat fish, which you have to give him credit for.
O'Neill is thoughtful and fast thinking, but thin, both in appearance
and in quality.' By Dee Custance
Late Night Lounge with Reggie
Watts
venue :: The Green Room
see links :: http://www.reggiewatts.com
http://www.myspace.com/reggiewatts
http://www.thegreenroomvenue.com
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: 11 08 07
Review :: 'Before Reggie Watts did comedy, he was a sound engineer,
and thus the transformation began. He may have at some point voluntarily
stuck his fingers into the mains to achieve his impressive huge floppy
afro, and channeled an eccentric French renaissance aristocrat into
a black American sound sampling musical comedy genius from New York.
His look and style is one that cannot be matched or compared by anyone
else on the festival circuit. Watts makes live sample's his own voice,
composing as he goes, rhythms and beats, knitting tunes together such
as 'The Fuck Shit Stack' and 'I'm Gay' and rapping with poetic lines
regarding the beauty of fellatio. Don't expect the formulaic set-up
punch line for your laughs. Do expect laughter from delight and obscurity
of his unique art. But the joy doesn't end there at this late night
after party. Watts is but the perfect host to showcase the best of
the alternative comics at this year's festival. Guest acts such as
the highly regarded David O'Doherty, God's Pottery, and Kristen Schaal,
made an appearance in this arena of pure freedom and collaboration
to make this night a weird nuclear fission of comedy. This show is
truly unusual and hugely entertaining.' By Dee Custance
Hannah Gadsby is Wrong and Broken
venue :: Gilded Balloon Teviot
see links :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ORUdvdGC8Q
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: 12th Aug 07
'Deadpan Tasmanian Olittle bit lesbian', Hannah Gadsby, brings us her
Adelaide Raw comedy awarding winning show to the Gilded Balloon. She
is a relative newcomer to comedy, coming second in last year's So You
Think You're Funny competition. But she is a find on this year's fringe.
Her show mainly is an analysis of her mother's torturous upbringing
and her abuse of growing up in a small incestuous town which sounds
like someone clearing their nostrils through gritted teeth. In her
dark depressing pear-shaped world, she stole her brother's imaginary
friend from the toilet and liberated him. Gadsby has a slow cynical
turn of phrase, which infects the audience with laughter. She's definitely
going to be a hit in the coming future.' By Dee Custance
Funny Women at the Fringe
venue :: Laughing Horse @ Ego
see links :: http://www.funnywomen.com
http://www.funnywomen.co.uk/
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: 13th Aug 07
'If you have suicidal tendencies, but can't decide, then this show
will probably send you over the edge. This is a bad idea for a gig.
Its not that the women aren't funny, its more that the audience who
attend are close to death. The room is too big and the audience too
spread out, so any strained laughs that are achieved waft up into the
rafters and evaporate. Material that is even vaguely pre-watershed
is met with silence, and leaving everyone feeling awkward, like you've
just caught your grandfather masturbating. This is where top class
female comics come to die.' Non-attributable.
The Bad Film club - Nicko and
Joe
Venue :: Pleasance Dome 11.30pm
see links :: http://www.badfilmclub.com
category :: Comedy
Review date :: Not noted
Review :: In a cinema, three comedians with microphones and pointers
are watching a truly awful film, heckling it and slagging it off! The
audience also encouraged to heckle! This is very funny and great fun!
By Dee Custance
The Witching Hour III - Panda
Venue :: Underbelly
category: Comedy
Review date :: Not noted
Review :: Ghost stories recounted and fantastically presented! I leapt
out of my skin and properly screamed! Also featuring a guest comedian
reading a famous ghost story! By Dee Custance
The Very Near Future - Free
- Antony and Donnchadh
venue :: Laughing Horse @ Berlin
see links :: http://www.myspace.com/antonymurray
http://www.myspace.com/donnchadhcomedy
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: Not noted
Comment :: Showcasing the stand-up talents of these two young fresh
faced comedians, both deadpan and intelligent.
Review :: This show features the Stand-up of 2 great young up and coming
deadpan comedians. Antony Murray is a Scottish based act who is relaxed
with the audience and who has very clever witty self-deprecating lines.
Donnchadh O’Conaill is noted for winning Chortle’s Student
comedian award last year. His style is of an acquired taste and could
be likened to Emo Philips, but without the wide eyes and silly voice.
He can deliver lines that really make you believe he might be a serial
killer dressed as an accountant. It takes an intelligent audience to
appreciate Murray and O’Conaill’s kind of comedy and this
showcase is a great chance to catch them while they are still free.
By Dee Custance
X-FILES IMPROV - DEAN HAGLUND
venue :: The Lot, venue 24
see links :: http://WWW.DEANHAGLUND.COM
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: 18 Aug 07
Review :: Dean Haglund played geeky 'Langly' for 9 seasons and nearly
10 years of the X Files and now he has built an improv comedy act around
making fun of the cult series... Click
here to read more
Henry Rollins - Gilded Balloon
Productions and Regular Music
venue :: Gilded Balloon Teviot
see links :: http://21361.com/
http://www.gildedballoon.co.uk
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: 22 Aug 2007
Comment: Wow!
Review :: There were longer queues for Henry Rollins than any other
show I attended this year. Henry Rollins only had four nights in the
Teviot Debating chamber and I was lucky to see his final show. ... Click
here to read more
Andrew Lawrence - Social Leprosy
for Beginners & Improvers - Chambers Management
venue: Pleasance Courtyard
see link: http://www.myspace.com/andrewlawrencecomedy
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: Not noted
Review :: Andrew Lawrence is enraged by everyone and everything. Especially
his audience and also his own show. He preambles for a good portion
of the show about his impending debt, his current living arrangements
of a hell hole flat for the fringe where male rape is part of the deal,
but a working toilet isn’t. Lawrence definitely has something
about him, which will one day make it big, currently though he is slightly
under done, as he could do with venting about something slightly better
than his own sexual rejection, coloured hair, the Scottish diet and
Scottish neds. He does do pessimism to the extreme with his undoubtedly
talented use of the English language. You could almost imagine that
his red hair might actually be on fire. By Dee Custance
Tom Stade - Setlist - The Stand
Comedy Club
venue: The Stand Comedy Club II
see link: http://www.thestand.co.uk
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: Not noted
Review :: Tom Stade is so laid back, he doesn’t even have to
plug in his guitar for us to thoroughly enjoy his show. He is a great
craftsmen of jokes, beautifully telling us the relationship with his
friends he calls money, job, drugs and debt. His show is presenting
the skeleton of his set list by having a white board with all his keywords
listed, and skipping around them throughout the show. Some are red
herrings like pussy burger, but are there for the audience to ponder
over what that joke could be… By Dee Custance
Bevan and Browne are Terrified
- FREE - Bevan and Browne/Laughing Horse Free Festival
venue: Laughing Horse @ Berlin
see links: http://www.bevanandbrowne.com
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: Not noted
Review :: No review, rated and recommended by Dee Custance
Tony Law 'Revenge of the Dog
of Time' - Mick Perrin for Just for Laughs Live
venue: Gilded Balloon Teviot
see links :: http://www.tonylaw.co.uk/
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: Not noted
Review :: No review, rated and recommended by Dee Custance
Russell Howard - Adventures
venue :: Pleasance Courtyard
see links :: http://www.russell-howard.co.uk
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: Not noted
Review :: No review. Rated and recommended by Dee Custance
Pappy's Fun Club
venue :: this show has moved from Just the Tonic @ The Caves to C soco
urban garden.
see links :: http://www.pappysfunclub.co.uk
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: Not noted
Review :: No review. Rated and highly recommended by Dee Custance
Terry Saunders - Missed Connections
venue :: Underbelly's Smirnoff Baby Belly
see links :: http://www.terrysaunders.co.uk
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: Not noted
Review :: Terry Saunders is low energy in these haunted caves. Plagued
by the idea that he has missed the love of his life, he invents a story
of a girl who spends her time stalking other people who also feel like
they’ve missed their love of their lives. She’s hoping
someone has seen her in the “I saw you” sections, when
she decides to match these people up. This is a sweet idea for a show
illustrated with naive drawings, but it’s a shame that this idea
was already a film in the form of Amelie. He makes no apologies for
the rip off, going as far as using the score of the films music for
part of the act. Heart warming as it is, it failed to strike any funny
bones with me. By Dee Custance
Yes, Comedy - PBH's Free Fringe
venue :: The White Horse
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: Not noted
Review :: Rated and recommended by Dee Custance
Adam Hills: Joymonger - Adam
Hills
venue :: Assembly @ George Street
see links :: http://www.offthekerb.co.uk
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: Not noted
Review :: Adam Hills in the past had a mission with his comedy. He
has made great use of his one leg to demonstrate the stupidity of Disneyland’s
attitude to the disabled, and has always been a staple of the fringe
for a few years. Unfortunately though, he has now gained the reputation
that he is ‘safe’ and this means his audience are now unaccepting
of anything that veers anywhere which wouldn’t be ok to take
your granny to. This becomes very apparent when the mere mention of
Gary Glitter gets an overwhelming reaction of inappropriate noises
from the audience, which unfortunately was the funniest thing I observed
throughout the show. I found it to be bland at best, especially when
I know what this man is capable of. And the dancing as the finally
felt like a bad Jongeluers gig. By Dee Custance
Lawrence Leung Learns To Breakdance
- Australian Comedy Management
venue :: Assembly @ George Street
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: Not noted
Review :: Lawrence Lueng’s show is a tribute to trying to be
cooler than his older brother and set’s himself categories to
try and achieve this. His mission does bring up some very original
and interesting concepts including the Cantonese characters that appear
in fashion with splattered paint, and people wearing these clothes
despite having no idea what these symbols mean. He decides to create
his own with some truly inspired dark messages of help. Other stories
he tells include a racist drunk incident while trying to pull, and
the highlight of the show being his inability to break dance in a national
competition. By Dee Custance
Maeve Higgins: My News - edcom7
venue :: Assembly @ George Street
see links :: http://www.edcom7.com
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: Not noted
Review :: Maeve Higgins is naturally funny. This year’s show
is taking the concept of the personal mundane stories that children
would write on the black board at school, which is a perfect example
of her own style of comedy. She doesn't so much have gems of jokes
in her stand-up, in fact it's more like listening to a string of pearls
of comedy. She's a bundle of funny observations and opinions, memories
of being young, such as her sister's existents as the replacement for
the golden retriever she really wanted, while throwing in the odd dark
unsuspecting whimsical turn of phrase of Its a unique style of delivery,
with wit and sarcasm accompanied with her cute Irish lilt. She tells
us amusing stories of growing up poor in Ireland, and illustrates a
tale using puppets made from rubbish she’s recycled. She brings
the show together with a poem recited by her Grandfather, also reflecting
her small stories. Maeve is a great relief from the big loud boys,
and will win many fans over with her quietly charming quality of comedy.
By Dee Custance
Tease With a Twist - Of all
the Cheek
venue :: Venue 150 EICC
category :: Comedy
Reviewed date :: 24 Aug 07
Review :: Starring Lady Beau Peep (Louise Patrick), MystiVine (Laura
Sandiford) and Crimson Skye (Heather Malone) who take us on their exploration
of music, comedy and cabaret topped off with a burlesque twist.... Click
to read more
Will Pickvance and the Cowgate
Cartoon
venue :: Gilded Balloon Wine Bar
see links :: no site
category :: Comedy
Review :: Recommended by Ed Stack. Ed saw this show before we commissioned
him as a reviewer so there is only his rating in this instance.
Karen Dunbar
venue :: Gilded Balloon Teviot
category :: Comedy
Review :: Recommended by Ed Stack. Ed saw this show before we commissioned
him as a reviewer so there is only his rating in this instance.
Tripplicates Time Tripppers
- Tripplicates.
venue :: Pleasance
category :: Comedy
Review :: 'For a two woman show involving writer, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm
and Green Wing Star, Katie Lyons, you got what it said on the tin (or
the flyer) and some – two novice time travellers abusing their
new status as time lords, and eventually realising they have grossly
disobeyed their primary dictate – 'don't tangle with time!'-
meaning most notably that the continent of Africa is lost from the
world map. To understand how a session on eBay has the power both to
bring about and reverse this tragedy, only going to the show will do....' Click
here to read more. by Ed Stack
The Solomon Sisters - Laffa
Jaffa Productions Ltd
venue :: Pleasance
see links : http://www.solomonsisters.com
http://www.myspace.com/solomonsisters
category :: Comedy
Review :: 'To be honest, I wasn't quite sure what Klezmer was before
this evening, but I think I know now…. Weird impassioned Jewish
folk songs, involving an accordion. Despite evident tiredness, the
sisters were professional, and the band were pleasurable, especially
the Jewish double-bassist from New York. The semi-educational, semi-informative
interludes by one of the sisters were less enjoyable than the other
sister's flute playing interludes, their duets being the most impressive
spectacle on offer, so I mostly enjoyed the musical element of the
show and broadening my awareness of musical cultural niches...' Click
here to read more. By Ed Stack
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