Tom Hodge isn’t a comedian, he doesn’t do stand-up, and his interaction with the crowd and the presentation of his materials will never grace the Perrier. Nevertheless, Confessions of a Jingle Writer is one of the best quirky shows around this year.
Hodge is, as the title suggests, is a jingle writer - those catchy tunes [...]

Oh look it’s that bloke off the telly that does all the Top 100 shows, doing a Top 100 show at the Fringe. Ah but it’s much more subversive than that. Stephen K Amos, who exudes a confidnece on stage that makes audience interaction look as easy as predicting Bullit would be the top car [...]

Pavel likes blackness: to him the world is an empty, dark place. Pavel has arrived in Edinburgh from a Russian satellite state where men bore their wives to death and staring into the abyss is a teenage hobby. It is on this premise that Adam Buxton makes his long overdue debut at the [...]

Late at night, far down the Royal Mile, lies the challenging performance of Anton Pick.
Imagine a beat poet reading in a steady tone of voice, measured against a metronome set up for a dirge… who’s just finished a truckload of cannabis. In his own words, Anton is attempting to push the audience, to see how [...]

It was with a certain amount of trepidation that I sat down to Tim Vine’s “Current Puns” Show. Some comedians take time to build an elaborate story, fleshing our characters as they go along, building layer upon layer before executing the punch line with the skill of a sniper. Not Vine. He’s a machine gun [...]