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Edinburgh Fringe review: Milo Edwards, Voicemail

Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. In his second solo Fringe hour, Milo Edwards follows-up his critically acclaimed 2019 show Pindos by exploring the void zone between childhood and death. With Voicemail, he delivers an excellent hour of clever, tightly-written stand-up on mortality, the economy and society. We see Edwards processing the world around him with waspish wit
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Edinburgh Fringe review: Josh Pugh - Sausage, Egg, Josh Pugh, Chips And Beans

Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Josh Pugh delivers close to a masterclass in his artform in his latest Fringe show Sausage, Egg, Josh Pugh, Chips And Beans. Over the course of an excellent, engaging hour, he looks back on the madness of the past two years with a brilliant blend of observations, a gentle surrealness and big dollop of hilarity. Whether it’s on the subjec
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Edinburgh Fringe review: Jonny & The Baptists, Dance Like It Never Happened

Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. It’s always a good sign when you leave a comedy show with a face sore from laughing, and you emerge from Jonny & The Baptists‘ latest show with cheeks very much tingling. The duo, Jonny Donahoe (Jonny) and Paddy Gervers (the Baptists), deliver a riotous set of melodic musings in Dance Like It Never Happened as they reflect on the last two
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Edinburgh Fringe review: Olga Koch, Just Friends

Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Olga Koch begins a relentlessly hilarious hour by donning a cowboy hat and entering the stage to Shania Twain’s Man, I Feel Like a Woman. It’s the perfect start to Just Friends, a show that is unsurprisingly a hot ticket at this year’s festival. With confident energy and effortless magnetism, Koch has the audience captivated as she takes
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Edinburgh Fringe review: Britney, Friends and Nothing More

Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Best friends for over 15 years, the chemistry between double act Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson unsurprisingly shines in a fun hour of sketch comedy. Under the name Britney, they’re fresh from a pilot show for BBC Three and with Friends and Nothing More they aim to make the audience fall in love with them. It’s a fairly easy task as th
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Edinburgh Fringe review: Jayde Adams, Men, I Can Save You

Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Ahead of starring in the next series of Strictly Come Dancing, Jayde Adams arrives on stage with suitable pomp. Dressed in white robes, she enters to Madonna’s Like A Prayer, and delivers handshakes to a mostly male front row as she sets out with the task of the show’s title – saving men. But in the course of a hilarious hour in which sh
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Edinburgh Fringe review: Stuart McPherson, The Peesh

Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Wearing a boiler suit in a packed room on a sweltering Friday afternoon, Stuart McPherson could be forgiven for a sluggish show. But no, this was a terrific torrent of laughs from start to finish, a relentlessly funny hour from a great emerging Scottish talent. Best known as Scot Squad’s Archie Pepper, he’s got back-up in the audience in
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Edinburgh Fringe review: Jacob Hawley, Bump

Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. With oil diffusers spraying out pleasant aromas into what’s one of the smellier venues in Edinburgh, Jacob Hawley has made his show as welcoming as possible. Down in the infamous Hive nightclub, he’s inviting us into his head as he struggles with a number of dilemmas – the main one being whether or not he’s ready to be a father. Is he cu
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Edinburgh Fringe review: Chloe Petts, Transcience

Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Despite being delayed two years by the pandemic, Chloe Petts presents a timely show which explores gender presentation and finding a place in the world in her debut hour, Transience. The show is a fascinating, endearing and entertaining delve into a lived experience outwith the binary from an assured and immensely likeable performer. Pet
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Edinburgh Fringe review: Jess Robinson, Legacy

Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Over the past few Fringes, Spitting Image star Jess Robinson has blown audiences away with her stunning voice and stellar array of impressions. In previous years, she’s had her band in tow, but this time around she’s taking on a completely different challenge and putting on a one woman show. Mind you, with the voice and repertoire she has
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Edinburgh Fringe review: Chelsea Birkby, No More Mr Nice Chelsea

Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. There’s a nice contrast upon entering the room in which Chelsea Birkby is performing at this year’s Fringe. As you plonk yourself down on what appear to be old church pews, the sounds of Cardi B and OPM’s Heaven is a Halfpipe reverberate on the speakers. It’s fitting as Birkby is, with this show, trying out a new persona. For too long sh
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Edinburgh Fringe review: Bilal Zafar, Care

Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. With comedy clubs and venues shuttered during the pandemic, many comics turned to Zoom gigs to keep the creative juices flowing. And as soon as the padlocks were off the doors and crowds returned, many hoped it was gone for good. But there were those too who have for many years embraced digital streaming, and it’s through Twitch that Bil
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Edinburgh Fringe review: Simon Brodkin, Screwed Up

Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Donald Trump, Sepp Blatter, Theresa May, Simon Cowell. Over the years, Simon Brodkin has upset a lot of people with his antics. And, it turns out, the latest is in the audience for this late show at a packed Pleasance Cabaret Bar. As he begins a small section on the war in Ukraine, there’s a heckle from the crowd and a shout of “you’re n
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Edinburgh Fringe review: Flo & Joan, Sweet Release

Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Flo and Joan have consistently been festival highlights over the past five years, and their latest show is no exception. The duo (sisters Nicola and Rosie Dempsey) bring Sweet Release to Edinburgh having toured it across the country, with more dates to come later in the year. And it’s no wonder they’re selling out fast with a show as str
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: Sister comedy duo Siblings can't imagine doing the job with anyone else

Siblings (a.k.a. Maddy and Marina Bye) promise a raucous hour of absurdist sketch comedy as they make their return to the Edinburgh Fringe. The duo, who are daughters of legendary comedian Ruby Wax and TV director Ed Bye, are specialists in character, clown and physical comedy. Here, they answer our questions about the festival… How are you feeling as the Fringe kicks off? It’s so, so surreal being back at the Fringe. It sort of feels like walking around in a dream because it’s something we
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: Emmy Blotnick on her fascination with celebrity fragnances

Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. American stand-up and TV writer Emmy Blotnick has returned to the Edinburgh Fringe with the follow-up to her acclaimed 2019 debut. In her show, titled The 30 Fragrances of Jennifer Lopez: A Show About Death, Betrayal and Financial Ruin, she goes on a journey through nearly 13 of J.Lo’s 30 fragrances before she is rudely interrupted by a f
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: The Play That Goes Wrong stars Mischief on returning to festival roots

Mischief, the company behind worldwide hit The Play That Goes Wrong, have returned to their Edinburgh Fringe roots this year. In their first full run at the festival since 2013, they have brought three productions, Mischief Movie Night (Pleasance at EICC, 3 – 28 August), Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle (Pleasance Courtyard (Beyond), 3 – 28 August) and Charlie Russell Aims To Please (Pleasance Courtyard (Below), 3 – 27 August). Here, the company’s Dave Hearn answers our festival quest
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Edinburgh Fringe review: Hannah Fairweather, Just a Normal Girl Who Enjoys Revenge

Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Several people have used lists to great effect in recent years – Chris Jericho in his later WWE run, Buzzfeed, and, of course, king of them all: Santa Claus. But it’s Taylor Swift that Hannah Fairweather draws inspiration from in her strong debut hour at the Fringe, Just a Normal Girl Who Enjoys Revenge.
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Edinburgh Fringe review: Lauren Pattison, It Is What It Is

Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Things haven’t gone fully to plan for Lauren Pattison since her last Fringe appearance, both personally and professionally. Her new show, It Is What It Is, reflects on goings on over that time and how she began 2020 hoping to get engaged and tour the UK. Unfortunately, there was a break-up and, well, we all know what happened to comedy s
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: Simon Brodkin on leaving behind Lee Nelson to be himself

If you haven’t heard of Simon Brodkin before, chances are you’ll have seen him at some point as part of his various stunts over the years. The comedian, who is also the man behind the Lee Nelson character, counts hijacking speeches by Donald Trump and Theresa May, throwing a wad of dollar bills over former FIFA president Sepp Blatter, and crashing Kanye West’s stage at Glastonbury on his rap sheet. But now, he’s focussed on being himself having performed out of character for the first time at
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