Just A Little Prick llit’ SI (lt'ttl’L'("\ .llr'tltt‘s Revue. (.I'Hit'lil' l’lttiu Hotel. 2!) 25 Aug. 6pm. Medicx-iii-practice prescribe a genei'oux dose of laughter. medical satire and knob gags.

Just A Minute BBC. Radio 4. l’lt'ttutttt't'. 2/ Aug. noon d” l/mt. Nicholas l’arxonx referees four celebrity panellixtx attempting a (a) second improv monologue.

Just Married I-‘rmky- l’lL’t'UlI. Gilded Balloon at Term! Row House. until 27Aug. 4.30pm. iimma Burgess and Stewart i"c‘i'i'ix got married on 4 Aug and they want you to join their honeymoon excapadcx.

Sarah Kendall In War eee Gilded Balloon at li’i‘ltil Row House. until 27 Aug. 7.45pm. This young Auxtralian xhow x ama/ing potential; her timing ix excellent. she ix caustically enthuxiaxtic. and her material ix meticulouxly rcxearched. The premise ix her warfare obxexxion and it'x all worthy stuff but neglects the laughs to make it worthwhile.

Matt King Is A Child ee

Assent/ilv Rooms. until 27.-iug. ll.4."/mi. So .Matt King ix a child ix hc'.’ l)oex that mean he's living in xomc xtrange xpace-timc continuum where you cart xtill do xtand-up about how funny it ix when you get xtoned or drunk and people will xtill label you ax ‘alternative"? lt tnuxt be a really fun place out there in 80x land. Mind you. it isn't really Matt King's tnaterial that dexerv ex the comparixon to the childlike. Some of it waxn't very original in termx of topic but a lot of it had potential. l'nfortunatcly. .Matt King's delivery ix juxt too ruxhed and too disengaged to really grab his audience‘x interest let alone get them laughing.

(Tim Abrahams)

0 Daniel Kitson: Love, Innocence And The Word Cock eeee Pleasance. until 27xlug. liln’llpm. See review.

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Krater ('ometlv ('luli. Ix'onu’tlia Soul/Mule. until 2/) Aug. l2. 10am. 'i‘hix late night comedy cabaret ix an established attraction

Daniel Kitson: Love, Innocence And The Word Cock eeee Pleasance. until 27Aug. 10.30pm. Daniel Kitson admits he looks like a cross between a lecturer and a paedophile. He could give William Hague a run for his money in the looking old before your time stakes. He’s got a stutter, he's balding. his beard looks like it could snare a cricket ball. And he's 23. To say that Kitson doesn‘t subscribe to a stand-up stereotype would be stating the obvious. What isn't obvious is Kitson’s humour.

Sure he can laugh at himself imperative for him more than most but there‘s no pathos here. Instead you get the feeling that Kitson enjoys being different; that he's been blessed with an individuality he wants to share.

And share he does. Quickly dispensing with mic to create a more intimate atmosphere. he tells us he shared his first kiss when he was nineteen. that his speech therapist thought he was ‘speciai‘. that he drinks Ribena in pubs. This comic confessional is charming. He’s strangely sexually aggressive (‘Don‘t say “Aw”. you have to back that up with an actual fuck.') but unthreatening. and the audience side against hecklers like playground bullies about to get their comeuppance.

Kitson is gifted. natural. unassuming and oh so fresh. Okay. so he looks like a nerd. but playing to the packed sauna of Pleasance Below every night. this is no geekshow. Make no mistake. it‘s Kitson who has the last laugh. (Maureen Ellis)

in Brighton and. although Rob Rouse doesn't quite xecm axxured enough to comperc. he gets a fair few latighx from his w ilfully xhambolic chat. Also on the bill are Stephen K Aniox. who dropx hix uxual arixtocratic tones for a cheerful rasta set. Danny Bhoy, whose technique of telling xharp gags very quickly makex a lot of

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people laugh. and Noel James. a man with a wonderful selection of execrable gags who is unfortunately side-tracked by that mainstay of late night comedy. the pissed heckler. livery day has a different line-up. btit with Ross Noble. Noel Fielding and compere Stephen (irant all lined up for future appearances. you should be guaranteed a few belly laughs whenever you turn tip. (James Stuart)

0 Lano a Woodley: Bruiser 0.... The Famous .S'piegeltent. until 26 Aug. 8pm. Lam and \Voodley are masters of surrealist comedy. Bruiser sees them tackle the masculine psyche in a show whose apparently anarchic nature belies its meticulously planned gags. And with their bubbling chemistry. this chaotic. exhilarating feast of physical theatre and self-deprecating wit could crack the tnost stony of Festival audiences. This is inspired and inspirational stuff.

Late ‘n’ Live (ii/(led Balloon. until 27 Aug. lam. The infamous late-night bear pit where comics are either deified or crucified.

Laughs And Mad Musical Inventions The Amazing Mr Smith. ('alton ('etttre. until 27xlug. 8.45pm. 1 Lloyd Cole Knew My Father Collins .ilat‘onie and Quantit'k. Pleasance. 19—27Aug. 4.05pm. People are always harping on about how comedy is the new rock ‘n' roll. And this show may prove them right. A step by step guide to the profession that is music journalism. Your tutors for this master class are respected journalists Andrew Collins. Stuart Maconie and David Quantick. who between them have spent many a year slaving over a hot computer screen for All/IE. Q. Select and Radio 1. Find out how to write a live. album or single review and avoid those tired old rock cliches and then learn the definitive way not to interview Lou Reed. Facts. fiction and some top tips from the world that we call 'Rock'. (Henry Northmore)

The London Revue Plt’(t.\‘(llt(‘(’ Dome. until 27Aug. 5.50pm. iingaging channel- hopping multimedia show cataloguing misadventures of the richly famous.

Loose Ends BBC Radio 4. Pleasance. until 18Aug. llant. Ned Sherin's nonsensical foray into a world of clatn racing and pork trumpets recorded live for Radio 4. Invited guests are expected and please bring an onion.

Manic Opera The Famous Spiegeltent. until 20 Aug. 6.30pm. Not to be missed comic a capella extravaganza.

Garth Marenghl’s Netherhead

.0. Pleasance. until 27 Aug. 10.25pm. Last year‘s surprise Perrier nominee returns with more non-spooky comic horror. See review.

Marilyn - I Wanna Be Loved By You Clowns .-lnonymous. Kotnedia Soutltsitle. until 26 Aug. 6.05pm. A new side of Marilyn as she tries to make people love her by doing singing. dancing and stand-up.

Marquez Brothers 0... Pleasance. until 27xlug. 4.35pm. A hot show of interlinked sketches exploring the nature of machismo across different cultures. Men should watch and learn; sometimes you really are this pathetic.

Mat And Maekinnon: One eeee Pleasance. until 27 Aug. 6.45pm. The fact that double acts have nabbed the last three years' Perrier Nominee Award (Boosh. Priorité and Noble & Silver) may count against Mat And Maekinnon getting it in 2001. it shouldn't. These boys are going places. With a series of unconnected sketches about stuff like compulsive lying. underage sex and insensitive doctors. underpinned by running motifs which come together in a monstrously hilarious penultimate scene. Maekinnon (the loose-iimbed. tall one) plays on his uncanny similarity to the Grinch while Mat (the squidgy. smaller one) makes nothing of his spook)“ resemblance to Vincent Gallo. Fine actors. decent musicians and very. very funny men. (Brian Donaldson)

Andrew Maxwell eeee Gilded Balloon. until 27Aug. 9.15pm. Maxwell is the unpretentious bloke in the pub with the natural skill for making people laugh hysterically at the daft orjust plain peculiar things in life. Raymond Mearns Gilded Balloon. until 25 Aug. 11.30pm. Mearns has been described as 'the new Billy Connolly". Judge for yourself from this BAFTA award winner's hotly tipped new show.

Meet Me At The Bijou - Wild West Review California Travel Troupe of San Francisco. Rocket @ South Bridge. until 18 Aug. lpm. Audience participation is a must in this wild west. music hall. singalong melodrama from the California Travel Troupe of San Francisco. Come and join the fun!