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Conor O'Toole: Manual of Style  - Delightful 8/10 show about fonts, typefaces and things that just shouldn't be funny but are!  It...

Armageddapocalypse: The Explosioning  - James Bond, Jason Bourne and Jack Bauer have two things in common: their initials and the fact their...

Tom Bell Begins  - Who says successful gritty reboots can only be applied to comic books, and not to comics? Tom Bell wants to tell us his o...

Phil Nichol: The Simple Hour  - It's a sold out show, yet around a dozen seats are still empty - what do you do? Most comics would kick ...

Andrew Lawrence is a unique talent and a firm favourite of mine, ever since I first saw his award-nominated Best Newcomer Act and appreciat...

Last year in his second year back at the Fringe, Dan built a great show that deserved won him 5 stars and was the inaugural winner of the ...

Richard Herring is a masterful comedian that has reliably performed good sets over the last several years.  This year he returns to a much l...

After a mere 18 months Sarah went from Best Newcomer in Edinburgh to winning Chortle's Best Headliner award and what's more, her 201...

Colin Hoult earned a few very positive reviews last year for his show Carnival Of Monsters and on the back of that I have a ticket for his n...

Sammy J is one of the leading stars of a new wave of Australia-based Australian comics (as opposed to the likes of Brendon Burns and Tim Min...

Last year Celia's debut Edinburgh show went down very well with me and many other reviews / critics / people-with-an-inflated-opinion-of...

At an unusual time of year a supernatural thriller akin to The Ring is released which naturally draws me to it.  Could it work?  First of al...

Just back from watching The Wolfman and there are several things that have surprised me about this film.  I believe it has been delayed by ...