Matthewson is no right-winger in waiting. As a gay man who can see the superiority of the female anatomy for entertaining the human penis, he's progressive about the shape of modern relationships and ...

Every year growing slightly larger and more powerful in a physical as well as a comedic sense, Pierre Novellie has finally reached a tipping point where he’s out of the velvet jacket and into a suit ...

Having traded for the last few years as one half of deadpan sketch duo Crizards, Will Rowland has followed in partner Eddy Hare’s footsteps and moved into stand-up for a piece of long-form ...

Every year the Edinburgh Fringe runs, with hundreds of venues hosting thousands of performers spewing hundreds of thousands of jokes. Reliably though, the thing that usually gets most the press ...

The Mayor and His Daughter hail from a town that seems to exist in England’s past, present and future, where the townspeople are vessels for dark forces and the high street chains are eroding away, to ...

You can tell Cave has training (and success) as an actor, because her voice and character work is impeccable. There are a couple of dozen characters in Christbride, and minimal costume changes, but ...

Molly McGuinness has a powerful health story to tell in her Fringe debut, but she sensibly chooses not to lead with it. Instead, she first establishes herself a witty chronicler of working-class life ...

Still, Don’t Count on Me is an assured debut, suggesting Trickey’s decision to throw away that secure accountancy job for a fickle career in comedy wasn’t all that rash after all. Especially as ...

8 OUT OF 10 CATS DOES COUNTDOWN: This could be interesting as divorced couple Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont form one of the teams, taking on Rob Brydon and Joe Wilkinson, with Huge Davies in ...

His persona, if it is a persona, is of a (barely) functioning alcoholic, slightly belligerent toward the idea of the audience enjoying themselves. He deigns to deliver jokes, some of which are rather ...

Narin Oz performs with an inflatable poop emoji at Chortle’s Fast Fringe – but doesn’t mention it. However she does admit she’s having an ‘existential crisis’; talks about the fact she ‘doesn’t do ...

But unlike those mad, fever-dream adverts that cluster at the bottom of many internet pages, promising miracle fat burning cures or anti-wrinkle treatments developed by a retired pensioner, Bella Hull ...