Edinburgh Fringe Comedy
Print Interviews
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Emo Majok
First published in On the Mic - Monday, June 20th, 2022Show: Emo Majok: African Aussie Venue: Underbelly – Clover Time: 8.30pm Dates: 3rd – 29th August (not 15th) Links: Emo’s Profile and Social Media Hi Emo. Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, African Aussie. African Aussie is almost like a comedy autobiography about my life. I start from the beginnings from being born in a refugee […]
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Tom Ward
First published in On the Mic - Thursday, June 16th, 2022Show: Tom Ward: Anthem Venue Monkey Barrel 1 Time: 10.25pm Dates: 3rd – 28th August (except 8th, 15th, 22nd) Photographer: Matt Crockett Links: Tom’s Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Anthem It’s about all my obsessions really – love, music, […]
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Isabelle Farah
First published in On the Mic - Thursday, June 16th, 2022Show: Isabelle Farah: Irresponsabelle Venue Assembly – The Box Time: 3.45pm Dates: 3rd to 28th August (not 4th or 15th) Show: Isabelle Farah: Ellipsis Venue Underbelly Cowgate Time: 12.50pm Dates: 16th to 27th August (not 22nd or 23rd) Photographer: Karla Gowlett Links: Isabelle’s Profile and Social Media Hi Isabelle! Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh […]
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Richard Hardisty
First published in On the Mic - Thursday, June 16th, 2022Show: Richard Hardisty: Silly Boy Venue Pleasance Courtyard: Below Time: 4.30pm Dates: 3rd – 29th August 2022 (not 15th) Photographer: Xan Blacker Links: Richard’s Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Silly Boy In a nutshell, it’s about my SILLY life and my SILLY brain and why […]
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Tom Skelton
First published in On the Mic - Monday, June 13th, 2022Show: Tom Skelton: 2020 Visions (What if I hadn’t gone blind?) Venue: Daisy – Underbelly Med Quad Time: 7.15pm Dates: 3rd – 28th August (except 17th) Photographer: Matto Charlie Lucas Links: Tom’s Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. As you can doubtless tell, this whole show […]
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Tom GK
First published in On the Mic - Monday, June 13th, 2022Title of Show: How to Record the Greatest Album of All Time Venue: Just the Tonic at The Mash House Time: 6.10pm Dates: 4th – 28th August (except 9th, 12th, 13th, 15th, 23rd) Photographer: John Cairns Links: Tom’s Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. How to Record the Greatest Album of […]
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Jarred Christmas
First published in Fringepig - Tuesday, July 31st, 2018I think reviewing is a skill that a lot of reviewers do not possess. Also maybe have a tiny review of the reviewer at the top of their review. Their experience, their preferences. How they were feeling that day. How many shows they had seen that day. Then we get a balanced view of their opinion.
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The Lampoons
First published in Fringepig - Tuesday, July 31st, 2018We won’t mention who, but a stout gentleman arrived with an old brief case and note paper, which we knew may not end well after he rejected the ping pong balls we give out to the audience (for secret reasons) needless to say he opened the review with “I’m not sure what I walked into, but there was aimless laughing for no reasons that I could compute.” Also he hated our snake puppet but that was hit and miss!
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Sean Morley
First published in Fringepig - Tuesday, July 31st, 2018Objectivity in the arts is the tooth fairy for adults. If you want to be successful you must appeal to the value system of the kind of person capable of becoming a professional reviewer – the tight cabal of coughing men, sitting at the back coughing into their notebook.
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Colt Cabana
First published in Fringepig - Sunday, July 29th, 2018Our show is so weird the reviewer usually says that it shouldn’t be a show, how is this a show? Then they give it 4+ stars. Not one negative review in 5 years.
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John McInnes
First published in Fringepig - Sunday, July 29th, 2018I plan to write reviews of my show. I don’t plan on reading those reviews.
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Martin James
First published in Fringepig - Sunday, July 29th, 2018To my knowledge I have not been reviewed, and I’d like to keep it that way for as long as possible. Though I do remember at the back of one of my gigs, an older gentleman was VERY INTENTLY examining a London A to Z map, so there’s probably a review implicit in that.
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Ivo Graham
First published in Fringepig - Saturday, July 28th, 2018I like to see Edinburgh posters uncluttered with stars, and have been doing my best to lead by example since 2013.
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Phil Ellis
First published in Fringepig - Saturday, July 28th, 2018…the incompetent fools at EdFringe Review send two idiots into each show, so now you get two stupid people reviewing at the same time. They wear fleeces with the “publications” name on them, so if I see them in my show this year, I’m going to piss on their notebooks, which are almost certainly going to be electrical.
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The Establishment
First published in Fringepig - Friday, July 27th, 2018I don’t think politicians, or the authorities should be deciding what is funny or not.
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Paul Currie
First published in Fringepig - Friday, July 27th, 2018Reviews are ALL bullshit, they mean nothing, all written by scared introverts who have no comprehension of what live comedy actually is and the bravery it takes to do it, because if they did they wouldn’t be judging any of us.
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Jojo Sutherland
First published in Fringepig - Friday, July 27th, 2018Belfast Empire Jan 2018, notoriously one of the toughest gigs in the country and I got a standing ovation, A STANDING FUCKING OVATION… I’ll say that again A. Standing. Ovation but I don’t like to mention it.
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Johannes Dullin
First published in Fringepig - Friday, July 27th, 2018When they are nice, they are nice. When they are good looking, they are good looking. When they eat soup, they eat soup. When they smile, they smile. When they write a bad review about my show, then… I get very sad.
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Foxdog Studios
First published in Fringepig - Friday, July 27th, 2018The star system is a bit naff. It doesn’t take into account the reviewer and their personal preferences; ideally you’d read reviews from people whose interests are akin to yours and go from there.
Although we’ll take the stars. It’s an arms race.
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Jack Shanik
First published in Fringepig - Wednesday, July 25th, 2018Reviewers are part of the entertainment aren’t they? I wouldn’t expect anything other than polemic, but so far I’ve only had one review that wasn’t genuinely thoughtful. Having conflicting reviews of the same show inoculates you a bit.
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Paul Sinha
First published in Fringepig - Wednesday, July 25th, 2018How does one even begin to generalise reviewers? Some are sociopathic pricks, some are utterly delightful. Some know literally nothing about comedy, others have relentlessly nuanced opinions. Edinburgh involves a lot of crossed fingers hoping you get lucky.
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Spring Day
First published in Fringepig - Monday, July 23rd, 2018I only read reviews of other people’s shows I’ve already watched. That always tells me more about the reviewer than it ever does about the show. I find that fascinating.
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Pity Laughs
First published in Fringepig - Monday, July 23rd, 2018At its heart it’s an exploration of what it is to be gay… or at least it would be if it had a heart. It straddles silliness, darkness and unsentimentality in a way you might not have seen at the Fringe before.
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Rik Carranza
First published in Fringepig - Saturday, July 21st, 2018My best review and worst review are one and the same!! It just contains the wonderful line, ‘Rik Carranza was excellent…at first.’ Such a high to then get my hopes dashed!!
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