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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Glenn Moore opens the spigot on his latest harried torrent of jokes before he’s even arrived on stage, relaying a well-known story about Emma Thompson losing her script for Sense & Sensibility in a ...

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 ...

This is a show like no other. Though I hesitate to use the word ‘show’, as most of what happens here occurs in the spaces between what Ali Brice planned to do.

In many ways this is the most extraordinary show at the Fringe. It’s been nice to see Rosa Garland’s Primal Bog set tongues wagging and pack out the house, given some of the stuff she gets up to.

Waving the Stars and Stripes proudly above her head, Jena Friedman enters singing ‘I’m proud to be an American’ from the Maga anthem God Bless the USA, faking an allegiance to the regime in the hope ...

Bursting onto stage in an explosion of sunny, slightly damaged confidence and flamboyant mannerisms, Jessie Nixon immediately nails her flag to the mast of what type of comic she wants to be. ‘Sexy, ...

Indeed, title Soppy Stern comes from Philip Larkin’s best-known poem, This Be The Verse, to describe a parenting style that’s half sentimental, half strict. And over the course of the hour, the comic ...