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A Northern Tr*nny Hootenanny
★★★★ Of the 3’600+ shows on at the Edinburgh Fringe, a good chunk of them are autobiographical one-person shows. There’s no problem with that, but it does mean it requires…
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Ria Lina: Riabellion
★★★★ The opening crowd-work to Lina’s set is as old as the hills. It’s the usual ‘where you from?’ shtick, and silly jokes about the British. Yet, like much of…
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Jain Edwards: She-Devil
★★★★★ Layered. Layered is definitely the best word to describe Jain Edwards: She-Devil without giving any of the winding, unreliable and nonetheless sparklingly delightful narrative away. From her first few…
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Of Fire and Flame
★★★★★ Oh, this one is for the bookstagram girlies. I laughed until I cried. This is a show that is utterly keyed into the 'romantasy' era of popular fiction currently…
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Rosie O’Donnell: Common Knowledge
★★★★ You have to stand back occasionally and process how fucked up things have become. We were watching a stand-up show by a woman who lives in exile because she…
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Ted Hill: 110 Percent Normal
★★★★★ Sometimes a reliance on multimedia in comedy, is a surefire way to paper over a lack of material. Ted Hill not only refutes such an idea, he uses his…
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Dan Tiernan: All In
★★★ Tiernan is very angry. Or starts that way. There is nevertheless something gently seductive about his classification of drugs, what they do, and what they’ve done to him. The…
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Shaparak Khorsandi: Scatterbrain
★★★★ ‘If you don’t know, this is a show about ADHD’, Khorsandi states at the top of the show, prompting some murmurs from the Radio 4 ready audience. Luckily, Shappi…
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Alison Spittle: BIG
★★★★★ Alison Spittle's BIG is warm, vulnerable, and, above all, very, very funny. It's a show about fatness and the concern, judgement, and abuse that Spittle has experienced in her fat…
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Under the BoardDwarf
★★★ It can be a hard task reviewing stand-up comedy at the best of times. Yet, in a market which is so overcrowded it’s fit to burst, we need original…