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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dotty is an angel imbued with the breath of Satan for balance (her breath is actually a lot better now to be fair – she’s had four teeth out and looks so silly if you look into her mouth. Why are you ...
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.
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 ...
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.
But Rob Beckett has revealed he was ‘frogmarched’ out of the Rolling Stones legend’s 82nd birthday party for being too drunk. The comic got into the bash at The Rex Rooms in Chelsea as the guest of ...