The People’s Princess is an examination of class, privilege, gender dynamics and age-gaps all communicated with razor sharp wit and undeniable swagger.

7 years ago

Through two parallel love stories, Hawley explores issues such a mental health and feminism in a way that is still taboo for men of his background and class. He does so with a punchy wit and quite brilliant skill for concise social commentary.

7 years ago

Snook delivers a witty, acerbic gut-punch of a show that is both hilarious and absolutely vital at the same time. If you’re a woman, go and see it. If you’re a man, *definitely* go and see it.

7 years ago

Hughes surely breaks all known records for how much the word ‘dick’ is mentioned in a single Edinburgh show. But like Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock before her, she utilises profanity with such artistry and flair.

7 years ago

Duker has a beautiful way of taking something undeniably serious and complex, and making it engaging, raucous, accessible, and yet still hugely impactful.

7 years ago

Just when you’re wondering who this cool, young, chilled out black comic reminds you of, it hits you – Larry David. No, *really*.

7 years ago

All in all this is a remarkable personal-dare of a show that proves that Adams can do pretty much anything she sets her mind to. With or without sequins.

7 years ago

Wilson’s contemplation of death is less a funeral and more a glorious wake, full of laughter, fun times and good vibes. If this joyous hour is purgatory, heaven can wait.

7 years ago

Pugh’s show is laced with a flurry brilliant one-liners and a flowing narrative that makes an hour fly by. It deserves to be trending on all the socials.

7 years ago

In this impressive debut, Travis Jay shows he is a polished performer with the wit and charm to say important things to the masses without them even noticing.

7 years ago

The Tez O’Clock Show is bursting with ideas and feels thrillingly overdue. Tez Ilyas has arrived and it’s really fucking exciting.

7 years ago

In case you’re out of practise (or just weird enough to watch with a healthy indifference), here are the basic tenets of reading far too much into pre-season.

7 years ago

Craig Cash and Phil Mealey talk to Nooruddean Choudry about Early Doors, the Royle Family and bringing the magic of television to the stage.

7 years ago

Even in these dark days of division and hatred, there are shards of hope that remind you of what we could be if only we embraced our diverse brilliance.

7 years ago

A slick, almost American-style hour of sharp gags, whip-smart observations and cock-sure polemic. Kae Kurd flies through his hour with a breezy confidence, and doesn’t apologise for a second of it.

7 years ago

These transcendent icons are doing as much as anyone to get people taking about women’s football, and no one could hope for greater role models.

7 years ago

Our expert comedy panel, made up of some of the funniest people in the country, pick their 32 must-see shows at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.

7 years ago

For what it’s worth, we take a look…

7 years ago

As we enter the ‘squeaky bum time’ of the Tory leadership race, here’s a handy assessment of each of the remaining runners and riders. Giddy fucking up!

7 years ago

What the past week has shown to be painfully true is that the ‘gap’ is more a gaping chasm, and any comparisons only evidence the embarrassing disparity in overall quality.

7 years ago

There is around 30 miles between Liverpool and Manchester, but as far as the two red giants are concerned, it feels like lightyears.

8 years ago

Following the happy news, let’s look at some of the rumoured names that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex may consider for their first born.

8 years ago

Under Ed Woodward’s expert recruitment, United could essentially get the gang back together and party like it’s 1999 – when they were all still relevant.

8 years ago

This beguiling interpretation is both faithful to all the most vital elements of the original, and at the same time thrillingly effective – and affecting – in its innovations.

8 years ago

It’s very easy to mock Mark Francois, isn’t it? But have you ever wondered whether it’s a little *too* easy? This is our exposé of the new face of Brexit

8 years ago

Watford can win the FA Cup and they should be massively excited about that, but they should enjoy every fucking drop of just getting there.

8 years ago

The attitude that nothing else matters stinks of the kind of smugness and indifference to immediate human suffering that caused Brexit in the first place.

8 years ago

So startling are the contents of Koch’s show that she has the good sense and admirable chutzpah to play them down rather than up – essentially throwing away some sensational revelations to great effect.

8 years ago

“The most exciting thing about Lexx is that you can easily see her going on to become a mainstream superstar – one with the wit and social conscious to say important things to a mass audience in a very accessible way.”

8 years ago

Whether it’s lamenting the toxicity of the Twitterverse, or negotiating road rage on his moped, Griffith pokes fun at the ultimate futility of being a dick.

8 years ago

There is so much to praise about this adaptation. It is Brecht with an injection of Mad Max and a swift half of Shameless.

8 years ago

Theresa May has played an absolute blinder in convincing Parliament to vote down a deal that it took her two whole years to broker.

8 years ago

Whether you believe Solskjaer to be merely riding the crest of a wave or masterminding something of a mini-revolution, he is clearly doing something right.

8 years ago

The atmosphere around Old Trafford had reached such a level of toxicity that something had to give – and it was always going to be the Portuguese.

8 years ago

Carl Donnelly says a lot of things without saying much. Or rather he implies a whole lot in the gaps between the gags. It has the weirdly subliminal effect of tinging your instinctive laughter with lingering after-thoughts of what lies beneath.

8 years ago

Everything is slightly more laboured than it needs to be, as rudimentary tests – once so easily and contemptuously dispatched – become an indecent toil.

8 years ago

“Even the more gross-out elements of Rob Mulholland’s set expertly constructed and sumptuous in their eloquent debauchery. The Leeds comic boasts a superbly seedy turn of phrase.”

8 years ago

Gary Speed was almost like the best version of what we could have been. When he died, it weirdly felt as if an unconsciously vicarious dream was over.

8 years ago

‘Dane Baptiste slips in jabs of truth and knowledge in between big punches of laughter. You feel the immediate hit of the gag, but with the lingering aftertaste of “Fuck, he’s right.”‘

8 years ago

When Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, Patrice Evra doing unsanitary things to raw chicken probably wasn’t what he had in mind. That said, he has always espoused the virtues of diversity of thought and expression, so who knows? A former French international salivating all over an unlucky ex-clucker may not advance human thought […]

8 years ago

Will Duggan has a penchant for cringeworthy capers and a wonderfully droll way of regaling his woes. You can’t imagine him doing anything other than making people laugh on stage.

8 years ago

“Danny McLoughlin is multi-layered, witty, exciting and superb value. You’ll be desperate for a second visit. Nothing like Chester then.”

8 years ago

*The Juventus result was a cruel trick. It waved false hope under your nose like the faint smell of chippy chips. The truth is United were lucky in Turin, and City are miles better than Juve. *You lost to a manager wearing a coatigan. A garment so shite that it can’t decide what it is. […]

8 years ago

They shall not grow old. There’s a great line in Pulp’s 1997 hit, ‘Help the Aged’. The unashamedly earnest song begins with the arresting lyric: “Help the aged, one time they were just like you, drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue.” It’s perfect because it immediately smashes any veneer of reverence we may have for […]

8 years ago

Republic of Ireland international James McClean has again been criticised for choosing not to adorn his shirt with a poppy this year.

8 years ago

David Cameron, who risked the future of the nation by recklessly calling for an EU Referendum, wants to return to frontline politics.

8 years ago

It will be seven-sided to reflect every face of your average Tory, and have inscribed upon it some vacuous statement of international friendship like: “It wasn’t you, it was us. Please send inhalers.”

8 years ago

As fresh rumours emerge of potential suitors capitalising on the current contract impasse, it becomes less a question of why De Gea should go and more why he would possibly stay.

8 years ago

Brexit is not ‘anti-establishment’, nor born of working class revolt. It is very much in the establishment’s interests for Brexit to happen.

8 years ago

Three is the tragic number. Jose Mourinho started the game by walking half a mile to the stadium. He ended it looking like he was angrily hailing someone else’s Uber. With two minutes of injury time to go – and Manchester United still only a goal behind – the Portuguese was more interested in goading […]

8 years ago