![]() Now it’s payback time, as Rooke, co-star (and fellow fringe veteran) Jon Pointing and friends knock up a late-night comedy cabaret for the final week of this year’s festival. ![]() The latest in an illustrious line of TV hits with origins at the Edinburgh festival, Jack Rooke’s comedy Bad Boys – based on his 2015 fringe show Good Grief – has just enjoyed a sensational maiden run on Channel 4. Their show Hair explores “gender presentation, gender perception, and misogyny”, they say, but “with as many jokes and songs as possible.” And here comes another one, in which the doyenne of doggedly upbeat leftwing comedy returns with another bulletin from her big-hearted, big-kid life – as a mother of two, recent immigrant to Scotland and stubborn optimist in dark times.Ī fast-rising Japanese-Taiwanese-American comic, Atsuko Okatsuka is the host of live show and podcast Let’s Go, Atsuko: a (woke) Japanese Game Show (her parents met on a gameshow), a TikTok influencer (she spawned the viral Beyoncé drop challenge earlier this year), and is hotly tipped for her joyful and offbeat standup.įunny Women finalists, Sketchfest finalists, Musical Comedy award finalists: the sketch and song double act Shelf (Rachel WD and Ruby Clyde) are also co-founders of queer comedy night The LOL Word. Sometimes it feels as if it’s only the Josie Long shows that keep you going. God knows it’s not been an easy decade to be a leftie. A force of nature on the stage, Thompson’s not-quite Lloyd Webber refit conjures “the distractions and obsessions that help us cope with an increasingly dystopian reality.” But if the Hollywood movie was so-bad-it’s funny, this new show by up-and-coming clown and “emerging idiot” Frankie Thompson should be funny full stop. The recent record may not bode well when it comes to adaptations of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats. But when this trio assemble, they make terrifically playful and mind-meltingly meta sketch comedy. Their solo careers ( Al Roberts with Stath Lets Flats Liam Williams with Ladhood and Pls Like) have been impressively busy. No sketch group of the last decade has made work more exciting than Sheeps. It’s since streamed on Netflix and is back on this year’s fringe – but so too is a new work-in-progress. There was nothing more electrifying on the 2019 Edinburgh fringe than New York cabaret comic Cat Cohen’s The Twist? She’s Gorgeous, a for-the-ages suite of songs from the anxious heart of Gen Z identity curation. ![]() Book now, in short, for a new set addressing (it says here), “race, family, and everything that’s been going on in his Philly little life.”Ĭatherine Cohen: The Twist.? She’s Gorgeous at the fringe in 2019. Since then, the British-Malaysian’s star has risen further, with a Netflix special, an appearance on David Letterman’s standup chat show, and a guest role in Amy Schumer’s Life & Beth. Last time out at the fringe, tickets for Phil Wang’s run sold out at record speed. It’s bound to be one of the summer’s most sought-after tickets. Hag, delivered in the year she turns 30, is about growing older, wiser and “gleefully not caring any more,” says Duker. In contrast to her companionable 2019 debut Venus, which saw her nominated for best newcomer, recent Taskmaster champ Sophie Duker promises an altogether spikier show this year. His new show 30 Years of Dirt (he won the fringe’s then-Perrier award 31 years ago) finds the Brummie back at the festival where he made his name, and still making standup as laconic and effortlessly funny as anyone’s. Early reviews suggest something special, although perhaps we shouldn’t take them, or anything about this show, too seriously, given that Masli’s title is Russian for … bullshit.įor McCartney at Glastonbury, read Skinner on the Edinburgh fringe: a senior citizen who refuses to descend from the top of his game. The star of the Malcolm Hardee award-winning absurdo-sketch show Legs returns with her solo clown debut, tracing a migrant’s journey from eastern Europe to America. What chance these days of enjoying a month of comedy without a free speech v cancel culture dust-up? Standup Sam Nicoresti – Leicester Square New Comedian of 2021 – fires the starting gun (well, more of a water pistol) with this delightfully named show, which should subject the whole debate to the lampoonery – and sense of perspective – it keenly requires.
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