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20 August 2015
Pick of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015
We return from our third stint at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the second award for the best shows we saw during our time there. Ladies and gentlemen, this is our Pick of the Fringe.
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16 August 2015
Michael J. Dolan: Miserable Guts
What's in a name? That which we call miserable, by any other name, would still be as miserable.
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15 August 2015
Off The Top
Baba Brinkman and Dr. Heather Berlin bring science and hip-hop together in Baba's second comedy show at this year's Fringe.
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15 August 2015
Gein’s Family Giftshop: Volume II (18+)
A dark yet eccentric display of sketches which could sully the purest of imaginations.
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14 August 2015
Markus Birdman: Grimm Realities
An older, bearded version of Draco Malfoy sets himself apart from the crowd with stunning illustrations to deliver a routine with definitively original execution.
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14 August 2015
Christina Bianco: Party of One
It's hard to imagine something as ferociously sublime – listen to what Christina Bianco can do with her voice and you'll see precisely what I mean.
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12 August 2015
Tony Law: Frillemorphesis
Tony Law was supposed to be the host for the Amused Moose Laugh Off final – seeing this show, I understand entirely both why he was supposed to and why he didn't end up doing so.
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12 August 2015
Nick Cody: Beard Game Strong
My wick was burning out somewhat by the near-end of Monday. I'd yet to see anything to really dazzle me or make me guffaw – and I was the only one of the Voice team yet to.
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12 August 2015
Lee Martin for Gag Reflex Presents…
The Laughing Horse Free Festival at the White Horse brought us four up and coming comedians for their stand-up.
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11 August 2015
The Amused Moose Laugh Off Final 2015
I take pride in having predicted the winner of The Amused Moose Laugh Off Final for the second year running.
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11 August 2015
Immigrant Diaries: Sajeela Kershi and Guests
A selection of Fringe acts who call themselves immigrants or the children of immigrants collect to tell us about their formative migrant experiences.
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11 August 2015
Brett Goldstein: Burning Man
Goldstein, star of Ricky Gervais' hit comedy drama, Derek, hits the stage in Edinburgh to regale us with his inebriated, psychedelic antics.
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10 August 2015
Sarah Callaghan: Elephant
How emotionally tender and conscientious can a stand-up comedy gig get without addressing death? Go and see Callaghan and you'll find out.
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10 August 2015
In Cahoots: Two White Guys
I told you last year they were too good not to be making money from their time at the Fringe, and I was right. Their work is going in the right direction.
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10 August 2015
Stephen Bailey: Should’ve Been A Popstar
Bailey's routine exuded such a level of energy, that would raise up even the dullest of demeanours.
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9 August 2015
Heartbeats & Algorithms
A one-woman show tells the audience a story about the implications of a world in which technology can pre-empt our decisions based on our digital fingerprint.
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9 August 2015
Jonny Awsum: Everything Is Awsum
Awsum upped the ante with the stakes of ridiculousness in his show this year. The laughs he got in the packed out, sweltering venue were some of the loudest I'd heard yet.
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8 August 2015
Natasha Noman: Noman’s Land
I was intrigued about going to see Noman's Land. Intrigued about how a former journalist in Pakistan was now in the business of giving a one-woman show.
Comment posted on 20 June 2018
Yeah it's massively problematic and really irks me. While the body and identity politics are worth heeding - specifically that ITV have defended their position by saying that physical appearance is NOT a criterion on which contestants, which is incredibly difficult to believe - my issue with it is more overarching and something that Iain Stirling, the voice presenter, has addressed somewhat when he said Love Island is seen to 'dumb down' the nation. As opposed to dumbing down, I think it serves as an overwhelming indictment of the superficiality of modernity. It takes love and sex and places it on an economistic platform without regard for how the men and women - who are wildly segregated, be it by choice or not - take the experience differently. It is, however, heartening (if that's the right word) to see the viewing public rally against the more problematic (at the very least) behaviour. Prime of which is throwing camaraderie out of the window for self-serving sex and ill excuses for emotional infatuation. I have watched this season to fathom out the appeal and I've moved away from my previous allegation that it's as close as you can get to porn on primetime television and towards the view that its issues are, ironically, more complex. There's also the argument that bad television has value, something you can switch your mind off to watch, but I think the spectatorial appeal around Love Island is much more sordid than that.