Mervyn Stutter’e Pick Of The FrInge Pleasanee Dome. until 27 Aug. [pm Come and enjoy a showcase of the Fringe's best acts (eight per show). Why wade through the rubbish in your search for quality entertainment when Merv‘s already done it for you?
Mlckey D and Juetln Hamilton ere The Indeecrlbeblee Gilded Balloon, until 27 Aug, 1 I pm. The lndescribables have received critical acclaim separately. Together they're unstoppable. Catch them before they're unseeable.
Middle Ingiend 0.. Kirk and Messingham with Lucinda Raikes, Pleasanee. until 2 7 Aug. 6.15pm. Introducing a sketch show with a rubbish trick and an anti-supermarket poem is an odd way to capture your audience. The tone. however. was thus set for the bizarre and unsettling comedy to follow (taking most of the audience with it). Piliaging the treasure-trove of dross and eccentricity that lie behind Middle England suburbia. this trio set out to satirise and surrealise the Sierra drivers of our green and pleasant land. Normal situations are subverted and media pap such as Changing Rooms humiliated: their general dynamic moves from the mundane to the ridiculous. often leading into dark spaces. Well performed with clever writing. this has definite. if somewhat bewildering. potential. (Ruth Hedges)
Midnight Comedy with Edd Ceee end Pete K." Tristan Baker Productions. C ()2. until 26 Aug. midnight. Edd Case and Pete Kerr deliver an hour of ‘irreverent. irrelevant and outlandish humour'.
Midnight Show Gilded Balloon. until 27 Aug. midnight. Whiting. O'Rourke. Clarke and Brinson have been described. respectively. as brilliant. intriguing. a rising star and simply brilliant. That‘s more than you can say for most things in the Fringe. so this might be worth a look.
Join Sean Hughes plus special guests, four nights a week, for a fresh late night comedy show from the BBC.
Sunday 12th August Monday 13th August Tuesday 14th August Wednesday 15th August
Doors Open 5:15pm Doors Close 5:40pm Show Starts 6:00pm
Broadcasting House. 5 Queens Street. Edinburgh. EH2 iJF
Mldnlght Velvet Comedy Club Boom Incessantly effusive. charmingly bubbling.
Boom at The Tmn. until 27 Aug. midnight. The talented Brian Hennigan comperes a
changing bill of stand-ups in an intimate
club setting.
The Mitchell And Webb Clonee . OOOO Assembly Rooms, until 2 7 Aug. 8.15pm. ls it a surreal play or a stream of
bizarre sketches? Whatever it is. the laughs come at warp-speed. from visual gags to high camp and slapstick. from the topically
erudite to real eyes-down groaners.
ex-German teacher is not hip altemative fun.
stand-up. He is acutely funny at his deadpan
best. Monkey Houee V CBbBNt White Rabbit
Amazing.
John Moloney lee .0. Pleasanee. until 27 Aug, 8pm. What you're getting during an hour with this
but good old-fashioned
and beautifully bitchy
C ou'boys. until 26 Aug. I 0pm. Cabaret. comprising ‘the best. funniest. strangest and worst acts on the Fringe’. Their own words.
Tony Morewood In The Comedlen’e Book Of The Dead
Komedia Southside. until 26 Aug. 8. 05pm. A ' comedy equivalent of the Tibetan Book of
the Dead. The Brighton Argus think he's ‘hit on a comedy goldmine' and the San
Francisco Sentinel reckons he's ‘an obvious talent'. Could be good.
0 Julie Merrie In Show And Tell
COO. Assembly Rooms. until 27 Aug.
9.30pm. One hour in the company of Julia ' Morris is an experience. A feisty. frisky
Australian. she packs more material into her
Sunday 19th August Monday 20th August Tuesday 2ist August Wednesday 22nd August
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show than should be physically possible.
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she babbles rudely but never crudely about school. men. drugs. sex and clothes in a hysterical. rapid-fire life history. Morris
. would have us believe she‘s a square trying
to get up with the trends. Clad in a shocking doily-like Anna Sui number and ruby
slippers. she belts out tunes with all the
conviction and propensity of a professional
vocalist. And self-deprecating humour?
You've never seen the like of this woman‘s
ability to laugh at herself. No doubt about
it. Morris is a star. (Maureen Ellis)
Jokesthat wouldn't pass muster in a Jim Davidson panto are thrown out into a pitch black silence Saddam Brothers
Bueen Morrleon: My LIT. With The Titanic O... The Stand Comedy Club 1/. until 26 Aug. 2.55pm. Normally. anyone who tried to bend your ear for five minutes on the subject of the HMS Titanic would be consigned to a watery grave of their own. SO. it‘s miraculous that Susan Morrison can spend an hour imparting her obsession with the ill- fated liner and still make it wickedly funny.
Richard Morton
Assembly Rooms. until 27Aug. 8.45pm. Richard Morton returns to the Assembly
Rooms after paving the way with a sell-out show in 1998.
Colin Murphy O” Pleasanee. until 27 Aug. 9pm. Since his appearance at last year's Festival. Colin Murphy has become a dad. Now. l'm not saying that this has had a
' detrimental effect on his work. but it has to
be said. he doesn't seem quite as sharp as he was last year. He's still as loveable as ever. and a night out in the pub with him would be great craic indeed. but the material is really nothing special. Murphy lost the
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audience several times throughout the show.
particularly during his extended spiel about fatherhood. since only one of them was a father. This is a new. softer. but
unfortunately not improved Colin Murphy;
still good fun. but without the edge that
made him that little bit different. (Kirsty
Knaggs)
Th0 Muelcel Baby Wants Candy. C Venue. until 26 Aug, 7.55pm. Chicago‘s hottest improv group return to Edinburgh with music and laughs galore.
Lee Neee: The Gay Bernard Manning Rare Birds Productirms. Holyrood Tavern. tutti! 26 Aug. times vary. Late runner Ness is outrageous. twisted and
shows no mercy.
New Zeelend’e Bret Peck ee
Gilded Balloon at Tet'iot Row House. until 27 Aug. 11.30pm. This late night review
show of four kiwi stand-ups is a strangely foul mouthed anachronistic affair. Three comedians in bad suits and one dressed like he‘sjust been for an interview with Toploader come on stage and tell jokes about blow jobs. Scotland. smoking and Australians. One attempts a kind of Lee Evans soundscape thing and almost pulls it off. They pick on the sparsely gathered
audience. Its all very rednecky. quaintly old- fashioned and adequate for an audience of
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retarded sheep farmers. Here though they mostly die. not least when they all gather on stage to do a withered version of Whose Line Is It Anyway ? Proof if proof were
needed that there is nothing more unfunny
than a bunch of merry comics improvising on stage. (Paul Dale)
Newerevue 2001: TWenty-flret Blrthdey Idltlon Canal Café Theatre. C Venue. until 26 Aug. 10pm. Topical sketch show. Three stars in The Scotsman. Nicky Silver’s Reieed In Captivity Festival Theatre USC — USA. Drummond Community Theatre. until 23 Aug. 7pm. European premiere for acclaimed Festival Theatre USC group with Mametian
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